Tropical and subtropical vegetables (2+1)

Harvesting and yield.

• Immature tender fruits are harvested. The colour of tender fruit is light-green or dark-green or whitish-green depending upon variety. At fully ripe stage the colour of the fruits turns to yellow or orange and for seed purpose the fruits are harvested at this stage.
• Regular harvesting at shorter intervals will increase the fruit number and irregular harvesting may delay the formation of successive fruit production and affect their growth and development adversely. The average yield of bitter gourd varies from 100-150 q/ha, while 200-300q/ha of hybrids.