Vol. 9, Special Issue 10, Part R (2025)

The present study was carried out at the Department of Horticulture, B. A. College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat, India, during year 2023-24 with Completely Randomized Design with three Factorial concept having three repetitions and nine treatments combinations of two factors. Genotype (G₁: Anand selection-1, G₂: Sindhan, G₃: Balanagar and Levels of pollen grain (P₁: Natural pollination, P₂: Hand pollination with 100% pollen grain and P₃: Hand pollination with 40% pollen grain + 60% corn starch). The treatments were repeated three times. Among different genotypes, Balanagar recorded significantly maximum fruit retention at pea stage (43.54%), fruit retention at marble stage (42.43%), fruit diameter (7.84 cm), fruit weight (217.19 g), rind weight (115.73 g) in pooled data. In quality parameters, higher total sugars (23.54%), Reducing sugars (17.71%), non-reducing sugar (5.79%) was recorded with Balanagar during the pooled analysis. From the two years of experiment, it can be concluded that the Balanagar cultivar exhibited superior fruit set, higher fruit contributing traits and fruit quality parameters. Significant variation was observed among different pollination methods for quantitative and qualitative traits. Hand pollination using 100% pollen grain performed better than other treatments across most parameters while, natural pollination showed lower outcomes.