Effect of different media and time of soft wood grafting in Nagpur Mandarin

Abstract

An experiment entitled “Effect of different media and time of soft wood grafting in Nagpur Mandarin” was carried out at the Fruit Nursery Unit, Dr. PDKV, Akola. The experiment was laid out in FRBD considering different media (T) as first factor with four levels T1 i.e., Soil: Sand: FYM (2:1:1), T2 i.e., Soil: Cocopeat: Vermicompost (1:1:1), T3 i.e., Cocopeat: FYM (1:1), T4 i.e., Cocopeat: Vermicompost (1:1) and second factor of growth month (M) with five levels M1 (August), M2 (September), M3 (October), M4 (November), M5 (December) with twenty treatment combination replicated three times and observations recorded at 60 DAG, 120 DAG and in June. As regards growth characters, plant height (cm), Number of leaves per plant, and final success percentage (%), proven to be superior in softwood grafting done in T2M1, i.e., Soil: Cocopeat: Vermicompost in a ratio of 1:1:1 in the last week of August.