Physiological performance of mango grafts under different conditions

Abstract

The presented experiment entitled Physiological Performance Of Mango Grafts Under Different Conditions were carried out during year 2018-2019 at Instructional Cum Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Badnapur, with objectives to study the growth performance of mango grafts under different conditions. The experiment laid out in Randomized Block Design with 4 treatment i.e. polyhouse with foggers, polyhouse without foggers, shade net and open condition which replicated five times. The observations were recorded on various aspects viz., days taken for sprouting, number of shoots per graft, length of shoot (cm), diameter of shoot (mm), number of leaves per graft, height of grafted plants (cm), diameter of rootstock (mm), diameter of scion (mm) were recorded at 30 days interval up to 90 days. The results of present study indicated significant differences with all observations. Significantly number of leaves per graft (19.01), height of grafted plants (26.38 cm), diameter of rootstock (6.01 mm), and diameter of scion (6.11 mm) after 90 DAG was recorded in polyhouse with foggers condition. The minimum days taken for sprouting (7.61), maximum number of shoots per graft (3.24), highest length of shoot (4.16 cm), maximum diameter of shoot (3.86 mm) after 90 DAG was observed in polyhouse with fogger’s condition and it was followed by polyhouse without fogger’s condition. The present investigation it can be concluded that the polyhouse with fogger’s condition had shown significantly superior performance in relation to growth of mango grafts.