Vol. 11, Issue 10 (2022)

An experiment entitled effect of scion precuring and time of grafting on softwood grafting in sapota (Manilkara acharas (Mill) Fosberg) cv. Kalipatti conducted in the green house nursery at Horticulture Research Farm, B. A. College of Agriculture, AAU, Anand, Gujarat during July to November, 2021. The treatment comprised four levels of scion precuring period (P) viz., P₁- 0 days, P₂- 10 days, P₃- 15 days and P₄- 20 days with four levels of grafting time (S) viz., S₁- 3^rd week of July, S₂- 5^th week of July, S₃- 2^nd week of August and S₄- 4^th week of August. The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design with factorial concept (FCRD) with 16 number treatments and repeated thrice. It could be concluded that, scion of cv. Kalipatti grafted on khirni rootstock with 20 days scion precured prior to grafting and during 4^th week of August proved to be the best for minimum number of days to sprouting of graft, maximum number of bud sprout, leaves per graft as well as maximum length of scion (cm), scion girth (mm), internodal length (cm) and survival percentage.