Lâminas de irrigação e doses de potássio em um cultivo de pimentão fertirrigado na Região Metropolitana do Recife.

Abstract

A striking feature of the brazilian cities of medium and large size is that there are areas called "green belt", located on the perimeter urban or peri-urban, where they grow fruits and vegetables that supply the consumer market. Fertigation is of proven effectiveness in increasing productivity and quality of the product and the most efficient use of nutrients, especially as more mobile potassium. The sweet pepper is among the ten most economically important vegetable crops in brazilian market horticulture. Therefore, the objective was to evaluate the effects of irrigation and potassium in a sweet pepper cultivation in the Metropolitan Region of Recife. The experimental design was completely randomized in 5 x 2 factorial, with four replications and five water depths (80, 90, 100, 110 and 120% ETc) and two levels of potassium (80 and 120 kg ha-1 of K2O) applied split according to phenological phase, through a drip irrigation system with pressure compensating emitters installed in a battery of 40 drainage lysimeters cultivated with pepper (Maximos F1) located on the campus of Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Recife, PE. The phenological cycle lasted 142 days, where measurements were made of plant height and diameter, variable input and estimated leaf area index at the end of the cycle, and the determination of dry biomass allocation, water use efficiency and water content in fruits of sweet pepper. Throughout the cycle proceeded to the measurement of the volumes generated from natural drainage and coming from biweekly water balance in lysimeters, and collection of samples for the concentration of K+ and EC. In general, the variables of growth and yield were influenced by water depths and potassium doses applied. The water use efficiency were influenced by fertigation treatments, the concentration of K+ and EC showed significant linear adjustments in all phases of the cycle, whose mean values were 9.79 mg L-1 and 0.35 dS m-1, respectively, and the application of most blade and the highest dose led to larger losses of K2O, average of 60.10 kg ha-1.