Effect of Different Locations and Transplanting Dates on the Performance of Lettuce var. Great Lakes under Wet Temperate Region of Himachal Pradesh-India

Abstract

Lettuce is the topmost leafy salad vegetable grown in the world. Performance of lettuce varieties varies erratically under different sowing conditions. Recommendation of varieties should be given after evaluating them in a particular area first. Sowing time and climatic conditions affects the production and quality of the produce immensely. To study the effect of different locations and planting time an experiment was conducted at three different locations of Seraj valley of Mandi district, a wet temperate region of Himachal Pradesh, in year 2020. Experiment was laid out in RBD-factorial design using lettuce variety Great Lakes and locations and transplanting dates as two factors of the study. The experiment was carried out in three locations viz. village Bagsiad (L1), Lambathach (L2), Majakhal (L3) and the crop was transplanted on three transplanting dates viz. 15th April (T1), 30th April (T2), 15th May (T3). Observations were recorded for traits such as days to head initiation, number of non wrapper leaves, leaf length (cm), leaf width (cm), plant height (cm), head weight (g), yield per plot (kg) and yield per hectare (q). The performance of lettuce variety Great lakes was found significantly better over all the other treatments at village Lambathach when transplanted on 30th April.