JEKA DE JESUS Pengarang Dr. Bernadete B. Koten, S.Pt., MP Dosen Pembimbing 1 Ir. Agustinus Semang, M.Si Dosen Pembimbing 2 Ferdinan S. Suek, S.Pt., M.Si Penguji 2 Ir. Agustinus Semang, M.Si Penguji 2 Dr. Bernadete B. Koten, S.Pt., MP Penguji 1 Aholiab Aoetpah, S. Pt., M.Rur., Sc., Ph.D Penguji 1 AHMAD FADIL Contributor

This study was aimed to evaluate the vegetative performance of elephant mini-grass (Pennisetum purpureum cv Mott) due to different level of water. This study had been carried out at the green fields of fodder in State Agriculture Polytechnic of Kupang for three months, there were started from May to August 2020. This research is an experimental that using the completely randomized design with four treatments and repeated five times. The treatments tried were: level of water (LW) 100 = the elephant mini-grass (Pennisetum purpureum cv Mott) that given 100% of water, LW75 = the elephant mini-grass (Pennisetum purpureum cv Mott) that given 75% of water, LW50 = the elephant mini-grass (Pennisetum purpureum cv Mott) that given 50% of water, LW25 = the elephant mini-grass (Pennisetum purpureum cv Mott) that given 25% of water. The observed variables in this research were the height of plant gain (cm/week), number of sprout gain (number sprout/week) and the diameter of stem (mm/week). All the data which obtained would be analyzed using the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) based on the completely randomized design and if any variables that shown the significant effect thus it would be tested using the Duncan’s test/multiple distance test (Gomez and Gomez, 2010). The results of statistic analysis showed that providing the different level of water gave the significant effect (P<0,05) to the height of plant gain and number sprout of Pennisetum purpureum cv Mott, whereas it gives the most effect (P<0,01) to the diameter stem of Pennisetum purpureum cv Mott. The average of height plant gain was 1,50 cm/week, number of sprout gain 1,25 buds/week and the diameter of stem 1,42 mm/week