Effect of organic manures on growth of mango stone grafts.
Krishnamoorthy V.
Author Affiliation: Krishi Vigyan Kendra, National Pulses Research Centre, T.N.A.U., Pudukkottai (T.N.), India.
Asian Journal of Horticulture 5 : 157-158
Abstract : An experiment was under taken at Department of Horticulture, Agriculture College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Madurai (T.N.) during June 2007 to study the effect of different organic manures viz., extracts of groundnut cake, gingelly cake, coconut cake, vermincompost at the rate of 50 ml and 50 g per epicotyl graft on 30 days after grafting again repeated 3 times once in 30 days. The results revealed that application 10% extract of ground nut cake @ 50 ml exhibited vigorous growth by increasing inter nodal length, thickness of shoot, number of leaves, leaf length and leaf breadth and produced three flush in four months period. The plants also exhibited higher content of chlorophyll and soluble protein in the leaf.