Effect of different seed treatments on germination in royal palm

Abstract

The study was conducted to find out “Effect of different seed treatments on germination in royal palm” at farm of Horticulture Section, College of Agriculture, and Nagpur in 2019-2020. Completely Randomized Design was used consisting twelve treatments and three replications. Treatments were control, hot water, brine solution 2%, cow dung slurry, H2SO4 for 10, 20 and 30 min, GA3 500, 1000 and 1500 ppm, KNO3 0.2 and KNO3 0.3 %. The results revealed that significantly minimum days to germination (days), maximum germination percentage (%), maximum root length (cm), maximum number of roots plant-1, maximum root volume (ml) were recorded with GA3 1500 ppm.