Effect of nutrients on growth of yellow type kokum (Garcinia indica Choisy) in the initial growth stage

Abstract

An experiment was carried out at the Horticultural Research and Extension Centre (HREC), Sirsi during 2017-2019 on kokum (Garcinia indica Choisy) to study the optimum nutrient dosage for yellow type of kokum in the initial growth stage. One year old grafted yellow kokum plants were planted in the field under uniform replicated trial. The experiment comprised of five treatments with four replications. Among all the treatments T2 [80% of RDF (1.6 kg FYM, 40:20:20 g NPK per plant))] recorded the maximum plant height (53.43 cm), number of branches (9.81 nos.), N-S plant spread (35.95 cm), E-W plant spread (34.01cm), stem diameter below and above graft union (9.98 mm and 7.15 mm, respectively), number of leaves (74.63 no.), leaf length (7.38 cm), leaf breadth (3.31cm).