Effect of pre-soaking treatments and wrapping materials on days taken to germination, germination percent, days to shoot emergence, success and survival percent in softwood grafting in mango

Abstract

The experiment was conducted at Fruit Research Station, Lal Baug, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh during the year 2017-18. The treatment comprise of five pre-soaking treatments and two wrapping materials. The experiment was laid out in a Completely Randomized Design with factorial concept with three replications. The results revealed that pre-soaking with panchagavya 3 % gave significantly highest result in days to taken to germination (12.43), germination percentage (75.37), days to shoot emergence (13.43), success percentage (70.90), and survival percentage (84.55). While, days taken to shoot emergence (13.98), success percentage (66.99), and survival percentage (80.03) observed significantly higher in graft tied with degradable tape as wrapping materials.