Plant growth characteristics of pomegranate cv. ‘early bhagwa’ as influenced by fertigation and micronutrient sprays

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during 2015-17 at research farm of RARI, Durgapura – Jaipur in split plot design on Pomegranate cv ‘Early Bhagwa’. The experiment consisted 12 treatment combinations with three doses of fertigation (100, 75 and 50% of RDF) and four micronutrient sprays (M1 to M4). The pooled data showed that treatment F3 showed maximum gain in plant height, gain in stem girth, gain in plant spread (E-W) and gain in plant spread (N-S) (0.76 m, 0.72 cm, 0.25 m and 0.35 m, respectively). Whereas the minimum values (0.52 m, 0.51 cm, 0.18 m and 0.26 m, respectively) were found with the application of treatment F1. The micronutrient treatment M4 had the maximum gain in plant height, gain in stem girth, gain in plant spread (E-W) and gain in plant spread (N-S) (0.67 m, 0.65 cm, 0.23 m and 0.34 m, respectively), while treatment M1 showed the minimum value of gain in plant height and gain in plant spread (E-W) (0.62 m and 0.21 m, respectively) while treatment M3 and M2 showed minimum gain in stem girth and gain in plant spread (E-W) of 0.58 cm and 0.28 m, respectively.