Fermented Fish Entrails and Used Diaper Gel as a Culture Medium of the Tomato Plant (Solanum lycopersicum)

Authors

  • Christian Stephen Miguel Marquez

Keywords:

Fermented fish entrails, Diaper Gel and Tomato plant

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The battle of human to safeguard his existence enables him to develop his state of living, but the cost of his actions drastically changes his environment today. Pollution, inadequate solid waste disposal, excessive flooding in urban areas, and even loss of fertile land to cultivate crops are results of urbanization and modernization. The Philippines is a small country with a large population. Urbanization brought agricultural lands to be converted into commercial lands. Hence, the opportunity to grow crops in urban areas is becoming smaller.

METHODS

The study aimed to evaluate the difference of growth of tomato plants plant in terms of height, number of leaves and wet mass in varying concentration of fermented fish entrails and culture media. Based from the data gathered on the growth of tomato plants, the results were interpreted using statistical tool such as Mean, Standard Deviation, One-Way Analysis of Variance, and Tukey Kramer's Procedure.

RESULTS

The mean level of growth in terms of height grown under five treatments, revealed that; tomato plants grown in soil containing 0.11% of fermented fish entrails had the highest mean as compared among the other treatments. Furthermore, statistical analysis showed that the five treatments had different average height, which means that tomato plants in each treatment had grown differently. The mean levels of the number of leaves in all treatments had a standard deviation of 0.20. This indicates that the mean values of all the treatments were close to each other, suggesting that the percentage of fermented fish entrails and culture media being the soil or diaper gel has relatively low effect on the number of leaves of tomato plants.

DISCUSSIONS

The mean level of growth in terms of height grown under five treatments, revealed that; tomato plants grown in soil containing 0.11% of fermented fish entrails had the highest mean as compared among the other treatments. It was followed by the tomato plant grown on soil containing 2.87% FFE. Similarly, the tomato plants grown on 0.11% FFE and diaper gel is slightly lower to the aforementioned treatments. On the contrary, tomato plants planted on 2.87% concentration of fermented fish entrails and the control set-up had the least among the other treatments.

Published

2019-01-18