Potting Media Composition for Pot mum Chrysanthemum production (Dendranthema grandiflora) cv. Pusa Sona
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2017
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MPUAT, Udaipur
Abstract
An experiment was conducted at the Horticulture Department, Maharana
Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Rajasthan College of Agriculture,
Udaipur (Raj.) during August, 2016- February to February 2017 to work out themost
suitable growing mediafor producing the best quality and most presentable potted
Chrysanthemum. Theexperiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design
having 10 treatmentcombinationsofgrowingmediaandreplicated20times.
The potting media - T4comprising Soil: Sand: FYM:Vermicompost
(2:1:0.5:0.5, v/v/v) recorded highest values in terms of plant height, plant spread,
internodal length, diameter, number of branches, earliest flower bud appearance(75.30
days), bud show color stage(83 days), floral bud break stage(101.50days),flower
diameter,spray plant-1, days to flower withering, flower per plant(51.10), weight of
flower (46.54g), flower duration (45.95days), whereas, ideal potting T4 - comprising
Soil : Sand : FYM : Vermicompost (2:1:0.5:0.5, v/v/v) PH(6.1), Ec (0.64 ds m-1) and
water holding capacity (87.85%) before transplanting was better than T1– Soil as
control. After completion of flowering phase lowest pH (7.3), higher Ec (1.47) and
higher water holding capacity (97.36%) were obtained in T4Soil : Sand : FYM :
Vermicompost(2:1:0.5:0.5, v/v/v) than the T1 - Soil as controlplant survival (96.67%).
The study indicated that most desirable and presentable potted plants of
Chrysanthemum can be raised by using soil: sand: FYM : vermicompost (2:1:0.5:0.5,
v/v/v) as growing media.
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Potting Media Composition for Pot mum Chrysanthemum production (Dendranthema grandiflora) cv. Pusa Sona
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Kala and Mahawer, 2017