Aiming to contribute to the elevation of technological level in cotton cultivation, this work was carried out in EMBRAPA Cotton Experimental Station in Barbalha, Ceará State, Brazil, in the period of August to November, 2003, with the objective of studying the growth and yield of BRS 200 Brown cotton submitted to four doses of mepiquat chloride (0, 50, 75 and 100 g i.a. ha-1) and five irrigation levels (125.30, 298.35, 353.89, 521.86 and 741.64 mm), in randomized block design, with 4 replications. The irrigation with 741.64 mm resulted in a 339% increase in cotton yield. There was no interactive effect between irrigation levels and mepiquat chloride factors, but the growth regulator, at 100 g i.a. ha-1, reduced the growth variables without affecting the yield or the first cotton boll opening.
Gossypium hirsutum L.; growth regulator; fiber production
