Kale, Dr.P.NDesai, Dr.U.TMahajan, prof.S.VPatil, Prof.V.A.Patil, Sandeep Damodar2017-03-032017-03-031989-06-12http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810003780An experiment was conducted at the Department of Horticulture, Central Campus, Mahatma Phule Agricultural University, Rahuri during the year 1987-88 to study the effect of different seed-clove sizes and spacings on the growth and yield of garlic cultivars Godavari and Shweta. The experiment laid out in RBD consisted of clove-sizes (below lg, above lg and ungraded mixed lot) and three spacings ( 10 x 8 cm, 10 x 10 cm and 10 x 12 cm) making in all nine treatments with three replications. The observations on growth (% sprouting, plant height and number of cloves leaves), yield of bulbs (with and without tops), bulb weight, polar and equatorial diameter of bulb, mean clove weight, number of cloves per bulb, width and length of clove and neck thickness were recorded. , It was observed that in both the cultivars bigger seed-cloves showed higher sprouting percentage However, other growth factors were not influenced significantly. In both the cultivars, bigger seed clove recorded the highest yield of bulb, with and without tops. However, only the net yield showed significant difference. In both the cultivars (Cv. Godavari and Cv. Shweta), the bigger seed-cloves gave bulbs with the highest mean, weight (20.24 g and 19.61 g), respectively). Polar diameter of bulbs was not affected by different seed clove sizes. However, only in Shweta the equatorial diameter was significantly influenced by seed-clove size treatment. Bigger seed-clove produced cloves with the highest mean weight (0.82g) in Godavari, while in Shweta no significant effect was observed. Various spacing treatments did not influence the sprouting percentage. However, plnat height, number of leaves, yield of bulbs with and without tops decreased as spacing increased in either of the cultivars of garlic. In Godavari, the yield were 17.82 t/ha and 14.78 t/ha and in Shweta they were 17.31 t/ha and 13.85 t/ha, with and without tops, respectively. As the spacing increased the polar and equatorial diameter also increased in both the cultivars. The highest mean clove weight (0.82 g) was obtained in Godavari at wider spacing, while in Shweta, no significant difference was observed. Clove size and spacing combination effects affected only the yield of bulbs (without tops) in Godavari. Smaller seed-cloves, at closer spacing, recorded the highest yield. No significant effects of interaction were evident on any other parameters. From the results, it was concluded that bigger cloves gave higher yield of better quality bulbs. However, at wider spacing the quality improved but the yield decreased. Graded cloves produced better qualtiy bulbs with higher yield than ungraded cloves.ennullThesis