PRODUKSI DUA VARIETAS TOMAT (Lycopersicum annum Mill.) PADA BERBAGAI DOSIS PUPUK HAYATI

Abstract

Tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum L.) is one of the prospective commodities to be developed in Indonesia as an increasing demand to this fruit.  This potential commodity has been used by people not only for consumption as this fruit is a source of vitamins and minerals but also in food industry. The research was conducted at Eco-Agro-Industry Training Center, Glee Madat, Paloh Lada Village, North Aceh Regencyand also at Agroecotechnology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Malikussaleh University from September to Desember 2020. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of two varieties of tomato plants associated with the application of biofertilizer. This study used Randomized Block Design (RBD) Factorial with 2 factors. The first factor was Variety (V): Variety Servo (V₁) and Variety Victory (V₂). The second factor was bio fertilizer (P): control (P₀), 2 gr /liter of water (P₁), 4 gr /liter of water (P₂), 6 gr / liter of water (P₃). These experiments were replicated 3 times. The data subjected to SAS and the means then were compared using DMRT at 5% probability level. The results of this study indicate that the varieties showed an increase in fruit weightat first and eighth harvest time significantly. Variety Servo exhibited an increasing number of fruits per tree at 40 and 90 days after planting. Furthermore, the application of biofertilizer application significantly increased the fruit weight at fifth harvest time. The fruit diameter was increased at fifth to eighth harvest time. The fruit weight was found improved from first to eighth harvest time.The fruit diameter was increased atfirst, third and fourth harvest time. Surprisingly, there were no significant results of biofertilizer application to the height of plants, number of leaves, number of branches and number of harvested fruitsat all different plant ages tested. There was no significant results in the number of fruits per tree at 60, 70 and 80 days after planting and the fruit weight at first, second, third, fifth, sixth and seventh harvest time. Also, there is no effect of application biofertilizer to diameter of fruits at second to eighth harvest time.