EFFECT OF NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM ON YIELDS AND NUTRIENT LEVELS IN LAMINAE AND PETIOLES OF PICKLING CUCUMBERS
Fertilizer trials with pickling cucumbers were conducted at four locations during a 3-year period. The effect of applied fertilizers on trends in the nutrient percentages in laminae and petioles was generally similar at all locations, although percentages varied with treatments and locations. Furthermore, when the percentage of a nutrient in the lamina was expressed as a ratio of the percentage in the petiole, values for any one nutrient were relatively constant. Yield response to applied fertilizers showed P to be of greater relative importance than N or K and indicated that N and P at approximately 50 and 100 kg/ha, respectively, should be generally adequate. On the basis of other studies elsewhere, K at 50 kg/ha is recommended.