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Harvesting was done at a 4 days interval with 6
harvests, when the tips of the pods could easily be
broken with the finger-tip (Adesina and Idoko, 2013).
As fruits are harvested, more flowers are initiated and
more fruits formed in 5 and 7 days. There can be as
many as 10 harvests, depending on frequency of
harvest and water availability. Data collected were
subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA) using
SAS-GLM procedure (SAS, 1989) and where the
f-values were found to be significant the significant
among treatment means were evaluated using the least
significant different at 5% level of probability (Steel et
al., 1984).
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