The present research aimed to study the productive response of 'Amarela de Carandaí Peruvian carrot (Arracacia xanthorrhiza Bancroft), which was propagated by big - MG (22.1 g); medium - MM (14.1 g); small - MP (9.7 g) and very small - MMP (5.7 g) seedlings and cultivated on plots with two (2F) and three (3F) rows of plants. Harvests were accomplished at 211 and 239 days after planting (DAP). Every evaluated plant characteristics from the two harvests were diversely influenced by the interaction between the seedling sizes and the number of rows per plot. The highest height of plants were those from the MP3F treatments, for both dates of harvest, but those harvested at 211 DAP (35.64 cm) showed an extra 4.50 cm in relation to those harvested at 239 DAP (31.14 cm). Fresh matters of leaves were higher for plants from the MG2F treatment (23.86 t ha-1), at 211 DAP, and from the MM3F (22.09 t ha-1), at 239 DAP. The highest averages of fresh matters of shoots (8.66 t ha-1) and of crowns (5.66 t ha-1) were obtained from 239 DAP, in relation to those from 211 DAP (7.19 and 4.20 t ha-1). The highest yields of commercial roots (11.61 t ha-1) and non-commercial roots (5.80 t ha-1) were from the MG3F treatment, at 211 DAP and from the MMP2F (14.48 t ha-1) and MP3F (5.92 t ha-1) treatments, respectively, at 239 DAP. The fresh matter of commercial roots represented only 18.31% and 23.08%, at 211 DAP and 239 DAP, respectively, in relation to total yield of plants.
Arracacia xanthorrhiza; propagules; plant rows per plot; vegetative cycle
