"PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT ANTHURIUM (Anthurium andreanum L.) CULTIVARS UNDER POLYHOUSE"
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2007-05-19
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MAHATMA PHULE KRISHI VIDYAPEETH, DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE,
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The investigation entitled "Performance of different anthurium (Anthurium andreanum L.) cultivars under polyhouse" was conducted during 05th February 2005 to 05th February 2006 at Modibaug , College of Agriculture, Pune. The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design with seven treatments (varieties) and five replications. The varietes under test were 'Aymara', 'Elan', 'Grace', 'Esmeraldy', 'Emperor', 'Flame' and 'Jewel'. The varieties were tested under low cost polyhose and semi shade conditions with shading net to avoid excess sunlight. The tissue cultured plants of 10 weeks were planted in media comprising of coconut husk, cocopeat etc. It was evident from the investigation that cv. 'Esmeraldy' had superior performance over all other varieties. In this variety characters like number of days required for initiation of new leaf after planting, number of leaves per plant per year (7.5), early flowering (160.4 days), yield per plant per year (5.7 flowers), better stalk and spathe length (32.00 cm and 8.2 cm respectively) with wide spathe and bold spadix was observed. The vase life of 12.8 days was also significantly superior over all other varieties. 'Flame' and 'Elan' were other two varieties with better values of observational parameters.
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