Effect of cultural practices onsuppression of post monsoon vegetative flush of mango (Mangifera indica L.) Cv. Alphonso

Abstract

The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with eight treatments and four replications. Among the various treatments, T1 (Basin exposure once in last week of September) recorded best performance minimum days required for induction of vegetative shoot (44.63) days, T2 (Basin exposure once in second week of October ) recorded lowest percent new vegetative shoot (19.23%), and all other treatments T3 (Basin exposure twice in Last week of September and last week of October recorded maximum flowering intensity (69.19%), length of panicle (19.06 cm), breadth of panicle (17.22 cm), hermaphrodite flowers (16.03%), fruit set per panicle (14.47%) and basin size (305.00 cm), canopy volume (459.68 m3) which found to be significant and treatment T7 (smudging) showed maximum fruit retention (0.86%). In case of yield, treatment T3 (Basin exposure twice in Last week of September and last week of October) recorded higher yield (183.25 no. of fruits/tree, 49.83 kg/tree and 4.99 t/ha) and this treatment resulted in early induction of flowering panicle (68.00 days) which led to early harvest (105.25 days). From present investigation, it was concluded that treatment T3 i.e. Basin exposure twice in last week of September and last week of October helped for early flowering panicle emergence and further led to early harvest with higher yield to Alphonso mango.