Effect of IBA and rooting media for success and survival hardwood cutting of pomegranate under protected condition

Abstract

The presented experiment entitled “ Effect of IBA and rooting media for success and survival hardwood cutting of pomegranate under protected condition” were carried out during 2018-2019 at Instructional Cum Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, Collage of Agriculture, Badnapur. The present experiment laid out in Factorial Randomized Block Design with 12 treatment combination of two factors like, rooting media i.e. Red soil + FYM (2:1), Black soil + FYM (2:1), Sand + FYM (2:1) and Coco peat + FYM (2:1) and IBA i.e. 1500 ppm, 3000 ppm and 4500 ppm and replicated three times. The study revealed that significant difference among all rooting media for different rooting parameters. Among all the four rooting media studied, mixture of coco peat + FYM performed superior in almost all parameters. viz. number of days taken for first sprouting observation taken after planting of cutting. The success percentages of rooted cutting at 30 DAP. The percentage of rooted cutting, number of root per cutting, length of longest root per cutting, fresh weight of root at 90 DAP. The survival percentage of rooted cutting, number of leaves per cutting at 30, 60 and 90 DAP. The present investigation can be concluded that the cutting treated with IBA 4500 ppm and grown in mixture of coco peat + FYM gave maximum effect on root formation.