Studies on plant growth parameters of dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus L.) as responded different growing media under shade net condition

Abstract

An experiment was carried out to study the response of different growing media on growth performance of dragon fruit under shade net condition during the year 2024-25 at Pt. Kishori Lal Shukla, College of Horticulture and Research Station, Rajnandgaon (C.G.). The investigation was laid out in Completely Randomized Design, with 12 different media combination as treatment. Growing media used as treatment included soil, sand, cocopeat and vermicompost, as sincerely as in combination in different ratios (1:1: and 1:1:1). Results of the investigation revealed that the combination of Soil + Vermicompost (1:1) recorded maximum shoot growth parameters i.e. number of sprouts per cutting (6.31), shoot length (37.70 cm), fresh and dry weight of shoot (123.98 and 12.67 g), shortest time to sprout initiation (35.77) and survival percentage of cutting (96.45 %) exhibited a significant improvement under the treatment combination of Soil + Vermicompost (1:1) while the minimum values were recorded under the (T0-Soil).