%0 Journal Article %T Rendimiento del piment¨®n en respuesta al compost nutribora combinado con un fertilizante mineral y a diferentes distancias de siembra1 %A Rodr¨ªguez Reyes %A Julio C %A Marcano Cumana %A ¨¢ngel E %A Monta£¿o %A Nelson %J Agronom¨ªa Tropical %D 2005 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X nutribora compost is prepared with eichhornia crassipes, cow manure and moriches soil. this compost increases sweet pepper production when the optimum dose of 80 t ha-1 is used. in this research the combination of nutribora at its optimum dose combined with a mineral fertilizer was used to determine sweet pepper yield for different treatments of planting distance. experiments were performed with the sweet pepper variety £¿jupiter£¿ in experimental plots where four fertilization treatments were applied (t1: 80 t ha-1 nutribora+ 0.4 t ha-1 12-24-12 npk in a ground soil previously sown and fertilized with the compost for one year, t2: 80 t ha-1 nutribora+ 0,4 t ha-1 12-24- 12 npk in a soil without previous sowing or fertilization, c1(control): 0.4 t ha-1 12-24-12 npk in a soil without previous sowing or fertilization, c2 (control): 80 t ha-1 nutribora in a soil without previous sowing or fertilization) and two sowing distances between plants (0.20 and 0.40 m). a statistical design of random blocks in a factorial arrangement (4x2) with 6 repetitions was applied for a total of 48 treatments. soluble and total contents of p in nutribora were low in relation to the other nutrients whereas the soluble and total k showed the highest concentration. fe y mn had the highest concentrations among total and soluble micronutrients. sweet pepper yield varied significantly between treatments (p<0.05). the highest yield was obtained with the treatment t1 and the lowest yield with treatment t4. fruit yield was significantly higher at the seeding distance of 0.20 m (p<0.05). %K compost %K eichhornia crassipes %K sweet pepper %K mineral fertilizer %K nutrients. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0002-192X2005000300006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en