Effect of mixture of growing media on germination and seedlings growth of different mango (Mangifera indica L.) cultivars under net house conditions.
Parasana J. S., Ray N. R., Satodiya B. N., Patel K. A., Panchal G. P.
Author Affiliation: Department of Horticulture, B.A. College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand (Gujarat), India.
Asian Journal of Horticulture 7 : 409-411
Abstract : An experiment on effect of mixture of growing media on germination and seedlings growth of different mango (Mangifera indica L.) cultivars under net house conditions was carried out at Horticultural research farm, Department of Horticulture, B. A. College of Agriculture, Anand during the year 2011-12. The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Block Design (Factorial) with twelve treatment combinations and replicated thrice. The treatments comprised of four growing media (M1 - Soil + sand + farm yard manure (1:1:1), M2 - Soil + sand + vermicompost (1:1:1), M3 - Soil+ sand + farm yard manure (2:1:1) and M4 - Soil + sand + vermicompost (2:1:1)) and three cultivars (V1 - Amrutang, V2 - Kesar and V3 - LSM-12 Master royal). At 60 DAS, significantly minimum days (27.11) were taken to germinate as well as maximum germination percentage of mango stone (77.33%) were noted in M3 media i.e. soil + sand + farm yard manure (2:1:1). The height of seedling (51.13 cm), number of leaves per plant (15.22), length of shoot (51.13 cm), length of root (36.17 cm), root:shoot ratio (0.70), stem girth (4.07 cm), fresh weight of seedling (28.79 g), dry weight of seedling (18.90 g) and maximum survival (79.67%) were recorded by M3 medium i.e. soil+sand+farm yard manure (2:1:1) at 180 DAS. Among different cultivars significantly minimum days (30.83) were taken to germinate as well as maximum germination percentage of mango stone (70.75) was obtained in cultivar V3 (LSM-12-Master royal) at 60 DAS. Significantly maximum height of seedling (46.95 cm), number of leaves per plant (13.17), length of shoot (46.95 cm), length of root (31.05 cm), stem girth (3.18 cm), fresh weight of seedling (24.63 g) and dry weight of seedling (14.63 g) and maximum survival (72.17%) were recorded in cultivar V3 (LSM-12-Master royal) at 180 DAS. Interaction of M3V3 (Soil+sand+farm yard manure (2:1:1)+LSM-12-Master royal) recorded significantly minimum days (24.33) as well as maximum germination percentage of mango stone (81.00%) at 60 DAS. Significantly maximum number of leaves per plant (17.67), length of shoot (52.30 cm), stem girth (4.53), fresh weight of seedling (33.23 g), dry weight of seedling (23.23 g) and maximum survival (82.67%) were noted in combination of M3V3 (Soil+sand+Farm yard manure (2:1:1)+LSM-12 Master-royal) at 180 DAS.