Performance of promising genotypes of gaillardia (Gaillardia pulchella L.) in respect of growth and flowering attributes

Abstract

Gaillardia is hardiest annual can be grown in a wide range of tropical to temperate climate. It is important flower crop of Maharashtra grown on commercial scale as loose flower for substitute to China aster and chrysanthemum. The present investigation was conducted at Horticulture section, college of Agriculture, Pune with objectives to assess the promising genotypes of gaillardia (Gaillardia pulchella L.). Based on the results obtained from the investigation the genotype MG-9-1, MG-2-2 and MG-6-2 showed better performance for plant height, spread and branches per plant ad flowering attributes.