Effect of harvesting time of flowers on concrete and absolute recovery from rose (Rosa spp.): A case study of Farmers landraces

Abstract

The present investigation was carried out to study the effect of harvesting time of flowers on concrete and absolute recovery in rose (Rosa spp.) genotypes. It has been found that the flowers harvested in the morning gave better results as compared to the flower harvested in the evening. The maximum concrete and absolute recovery (0.150 - 0.068%), and (0.107 - 0.050%) obtained from the cultivar of Rose-4 when flowers were harvested in the morning and evening respectively followed by, ( 0.123 - 0.060%) and (0.170 - 0.050%) in the cultivar of Rose-3, (0.080 - 0.042%) and (0.060-0.034%) in the flowers of Rose-8 and minimum concrete and absolute (0.0.050 - 0.030%) and (0.037- 0.019%)) was found in the cultivar of Rose-10, when flowers were harvested in the morning and evening respectively. The results obtained from the present study indicate that the flowers were harvested in the morning gave better recovery of concrete and absolute in tuberose.