Table 3 Pepper types and their respective leaf and inflorescence characters
Pepper types | Leaf length (cm) | Leaf Width (cm) | Petiole length (cm) | Spike length (cm) | No. of flowers spike−1 | % of Berry spike−1 | Berry size (mm) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full size (Berry set) | Intermediate-size | Undeveloped berries | |||||||
Babu kubwa | 17.92 ± 0.12aa | 12.96 ± 0.09a | 2.82 ± 0.05a | 12.4 ± 0.12a | 93.5 ± 2.03a | 51.3 ± 4.44ab | 34.0 ± 0.20a | 12.7 ± 0.34b | 5.8 ± 0.05a |
Babu ndogo | 13.97 ± 0.22c | 8.88 ± 0.07b | 2.15 ± 0.02b | 5.9 ± 0.22c | 55.4 ± 1.40b | 65.0 ± 3.79ab | 26.3 ± 0.28b | 6.7 ± 0.45c | 4.8 ± 0.04d |
Babu kati | 13.54 ± 0.16c | 8.94 ± 0.25b | 2.03 ± 0.02bc | 10.6 ± 0.11b | 90.7 ± 2.89a | 46.7 ± 10.51b | 15.3 ± 0.38c | 36.0 ± 0.73a | 5.1 ± 0.08c |
Ismailia | 14.73 ± 0.08b | 8.65 ± 0.07b | 1.95 ± 0.04c | 10.6 ± 0.14b | 67.6 ± 0.78b | 86.0 ± 6.19a | 10.7 ± 0.33d | 1.3 ± 0.06d | 5.3 ± 0.06b |
Mean | 15 | 9.9 | 2.2 | 9.9 | 76.8 | 62.2 | 21.6 | 14.2 | 5.2 |
CV% | 3.9 | 4.9 | 6.2 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 19.3 | 38.0 | 55.3 | 4.6 |
d.f | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
F value | 167.9 | 275.2 | 123.1 | 167.2 | 16.4 | 6.3 | 13.8 | 5.4 | 49.7 |
P value |  < 0.001 |  < 0.001 |  < 0.001 |  < 0.001 | 0.003 | 0.026 | 0.046 | 0.007 |  < 0.001 |