Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2018) 7(2): 126-135 126 Original Research Article https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2018.702.016 Effects of Varying Doses of Nitrogen and Phosphorus on Vegetative Growth, Flowering and Fruit Quality of Cape Gooseberry (Physalis peruviana Linn) Sunna Deepti*, A.K. Singh and Kunwar Avinash Pratap Singh Department of Horticulture, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Narendra Nagar (Kumarganj), Faizabad 224 229 (U.P.), India *Corresponding author ABSTRACT Introduction The cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana Linn) is annual minor fruit crop belongs to family Solanaceae. Plant is annual and perennial herb bearing globular fruit, each include in inflated calyx, which become papery on maturity and look like Chinese lantern. It is also commonly called as poha berry in Hawaii, Golden berry in South Africa and Rashbhari, Makoi or Tepari in India (Gupta and Roy, 1980). The name of cape gooseberry is most probably derived from the name of “Cape of Good Hope” of South Africa, where it was commercially grown (Chattopadhyay, 1996). The fruit is a smooth berry, resembling a miniature, spherical, looks like yellow tomato. Removed from its bladder like calyx, it is about the size of a marble, about 1-2cm in diameter in size. Like a tomato it contains numerous seeds. It is bright yellow to orange in colour, and it is sweet when ripe, with a International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 02 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com The experiment was carried out at Main Experiment Station of Horticulture department, Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Faizabad (U.P.) during the year 2015-16 to evaluate the effect of varying doses of nitrogen and phosphorus on vegetative growth, flowering and fruit quality of cape gooseberry. The experiment was conducted in Factorial Randomized Block Design with twelve treatments comprising of 4 levels of Nitrogen, i.e., (75, 100, 125, 150 kg/ha), and 3 levels of Phosphorus (60, 80, 100 kg/ha) the doses of Nitrogen and Phosphorus were applied in two splits. The results were recorded on the characters viz., plant height (cm), number of primary and secondary branches / plant, days taken to first flowering, days taken to 50% flowering and quality attributes viz. TSS, Ascorbic acid and acidity. On the basis of experimental finding it is concluded that the application of (N150:P100) kg/ha was suitable doses for better plant vegetative growth and fruit quality of Cape gooseberry. Keywords Cape gooseberry, Physalis peruviana, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Vegetatitive growth, Quality attributes Accepted: 04 January 2018 Available Online: 10 February 2018 Article Info