MIT Microbial Product in Peppers Cultivation
Product Test: MIT PO-G, MIT PN-60L, MIT PP, MIT PI
Corps: Jalapeno Peppers, 30 plants for each group
Site and Location: Greenhouse at customer site, 71 Turut Track, Singapore 718931
Test period: June 2021 to September 2021
Environment condition: Outdoor
Growing media: 100% peat base with compost from Kiat Lee.
Evaluation Objective: Evaluation effect of microbial product in fruit yield increasing and quality improvement.
Results summary:
There is a significant increase in yield with microbial help compared with no microbes group.
With the aid of an MIT product, the plant saw early harvest, a longer time of output, and a higher rate of consumer acceptance.
Product application in details:
Test group:
Group A: Control group, follow existing fertilization system
Group B: Fertilization system same as Group A, add MIT Microbe product,
Group C: Fertilization system is 50% of Group A, add MIT Microbe product.
Stages of crops growing:
Seeding and nursery stage: 28 June
Re-pot and transplant date: 28 July (After 30 days)
Stage
MIT Product
Note
Growing bed preparation
MIT POG, 50g/plants
Seeding and nursery
(from 28 June)
NIL
Transplanting
(from 28 July)
Stage
MIT Product
Note
After transplanting
MIT PN-60L, MIT PP, 2g/plants
Growing
NIL
NIL
Start flowering
Flowering and harvest
MIT PN-60L, every 4 weeks
2g/plants
MIT PP, every 2 weeks,
2g/plants
MIT PI, 1 time
2g/plants
MIT PN-60L & MIT PP
2g/plants
Growing stage photos
42 Days (Total)
56 Days (Total)
74 Days (Total)
Harvest Records
Photo of second round harvest on 2 August
Harvest on 8 August
Harvest on 5 September
Harvest on 13 September
Harvest on 1 October
Harvest record in detail:
| Date | Group 1 (Control) | Group 2 With MIT Product | Group 3 With MIT Product & reduce 50% fertilizer | |||
| Wt(g) | No. (piece) | Wt(g) | No. (piece) | Wt(g) | No. (piece) | |
| 26-Jul-21 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 123 | 9 |
| 2-Aug-21 | 140 | 12 | 371 | 31 | 720 | 55 |
| 8-Aug-21 | 240 | 16 | 468 | 29 | 775 | 53 |
| 14-Aug-21 | 98 | 7 | 112 | 8 | 115 | 8 |
| 15-Aug-21 | 447 | 34 | 335 | 26 | 572 | 41 |
| 22-Aug-21 | 1475 | 93 | 1550 | 104 | 1160 | 72 |
| 29-Aug-21 | 851 | 38 | 1250 | 85 | 1263 | 58 |
| 5-Sep-21 | 790 | 51 | 937 | 72 | 854 | 59 |
| 12-Sep-21 | 1173 | 78 | 884 | 68 | 1071 | 74 |
| 20-Sep-21 | 865 | 57 | 875 | 67 | 1000 | 69 |
| 26-Sep-21 | 290 | 30 | 400 | 38 | 566 | 46 |
| Total Wt (g) | 6369 | 416 | 7205 | 530 | 8219 | 544 |
| Avg, | 15.3 | – | 13.6 | – | 15.1 | – |
*Harvesting was done a total of 11 times throughout the test period.
Conclusion
From graph above shows that even use 50% fertilizer, but with help of microbes, it still can reach higher product yield in overall weight and fruit numbers. It’s fully support microbes’ function and benefits brought to plant and soil.
In this round test of corps chili production, with microbes help, the 50% fertilizer amount gives more effective results, and cost saving in overall growing management is achieve able
Other: Pest and diseases
It was observed that during the experiment, the plants in all 3 groups were affected by pests and diseases, major pests are thrips, mites and whiteflies. They lead curling leaves and severe to no longer growing of new branches, leaves and chilis, and in bad shapes and appearances.