Vol. 11, Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Surya Balan M, Aruna P, Rajamani K and Vanitha K

Abstract:
Tuberose fetches a good market price in the Indian market. But the propagation through bulbs are found to be more expensive than propagation through bulblets. So an alternate method of propagation through bulblets will have a good impact on the farmer’s economy. The aim of the present study is to find out the effect of media on the growth of tuberose which is propagated through bulblets. The protrays were filled with the different combinations of media like Cocopeat, Red soil, FYM, Vermicompost. The bulblets which of uniform size were pretreated with 0.1% Bavistin and treated with plant growth regulator GA3 of 150 ppm for better establishment. Observations were recorded on 30th and 60th day after planting of bulblets. The data recorded were leaf length, leaf width, number of leaves, Leaf area, root length, number of roots/clump, number of days taken for 50% sprouting, sprouting percentage, shoot: root dry weight ratio, survival percentage and plant vigour. In this study, the treatment with media M3 (Cocopeat + FYM + Vermicompost) was found to be more effective and showed good results among the growth characteristics.