EFFECT OF POT SIZE AND CULTIVARS ON GROWTH, FLOWERING AND PRESENTABILITY OF POTTED AZALEAS

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dc.contributor.advisorDILTA, B.S.
dc.contributor.authorTHAPA, SUMAN
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-20T12:35:48Z
dc.date.available2016-12-20T12:35:48Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT The present investigation entitled, “Effect of pot size and cultivars on growth, flowering and presentability of potted azaleas” was carried out at the experimental farm of the department of Floriculture and Landscaping of Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (H.P) during 2012-13 to find out the most suitable cultivars and pot size for producing the best quality and most presentable potted azaleas. The experiment was laid out in completely randomized design (factorial) having 45 treatment combinations of fifteen cultivars and three pot sizes replicated thrice with five pots per treatment. Fifteen cultivars viz., ‘John Herrens’, ‘Winter Hawk’, ‘White Rosebud’, ‘Boy-O-Boy’, ‘Summer Time’, ‘Pink Tama’, ‘Red Tomahawk’, ‘Shanghai Baby’, ‘Super Red’, ‘Nightingale’, ‘Empress’, ‘White Bouquet’, ‘Lady Love’, ‘Anniversary Joy’ and ‘Royalty’ and three pot sizes i.e. 25 cm, 20 cm and 15 cm diameter pots, respectively were tested. The observations were recorded on plant height (cm), number of shoots per plant, shoot length (cm), plant spread (cm), days for flower bud formation (days), number of days taken for flowering (days), number of flowers per plant, flower diameter (cm), number of flowers per plant open at a time, duration of flowering (days) and pot presentability. The cv. ‘White Bouquet’ recorded maximum values in terms of most of desirable characters viz., number of shoots per plant (13.76), plant spread (26.41 cm), number of flowers per plant (25.89), number of flowers per plant open at a time (17.84), duration of flowering (32.23 days) and pot presentability score (83.22). However, the maximum values for the characters like plant height (48.78 cm) and shoot length (12.00 cm) were recorded in cv. ‘Royalty’ and cv. ‘Empress’ took maximum number of days for flower bud formation (341.07 days) as well as for flowering (371.02 days) while cv. ‘Pink Tama’ produced largest size flowers (10.44 cm). As regards the effect of pot sizes, 25 cm diameter pots exhibited maximum plant height (30.30 cm), maximum shoots per plant (9.80), shoot length (9.74 cm), plant spread (24.56 cm), days for flower bud formation (215.80 days), days taken for flowering (249.29 days), number of flowers per plant (16.54), flower diameter (6.82 cm), number of flowers open at a time (11.57), duration of flowering (25.68 days) and pot presentability score (73.69). The study indicated that cv. ‘White Bouquet’ gave better performance w.r.t. various growth, flowering and presentability attributes of potted azaleas especially when grown in 25 cm diameter pots.en_US
dc.identifier.other48026
dc.identifier.urihttp://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/91422
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subFloriculture and Landscapingen_US
dc.these.typeM.Sc
dc.titleEFFECT OF POT SIZE AND CULTIVARS ON GROWTH, FLOWERING AND PRESENTABILITY OF POTTED AZALEASen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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