Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
MR Jalgaonkar, KV Malshe, RG Khandekar, RV Dhopavkar and SB Thorat

Abstract:
The experiment was conducted under polytunnel at the Nursery No. 4, Department of Plantation, Spices, Medicinal and Aromatic Crops, College of Horticulture, Dapoli, Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krushi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli during the year 2021-22 to assess the effect of effect of vermiwash, humic acid and cattle urine on root growth of black pepper cuttings. The experiment was laid in RBD design with three replications and 10 treatments viz; T₁: Control, T₂: Vermiwash (10%), T₃: Vermiwash (15%), T₄: Vermiwash (20%) T₅: Humic acid (0.2%), T₆: Humic acid (0.3%), T₇: Humic acid (0.4%), T₈: Cattle urine (10%), T₉: Cattle urine (15%) and T₁₀: Cattle urine (20%). Significantly highest fresh weight of root was observed in the treatment of drenching with 0.4% humic acid (6.57 g). The lowest fresh weight of root was found in control (3.08 g). The maximum dry weight of root was found with drenching with 20% cattle urine (1.2 g) which was followed drenching with 0.4% humic acid (1.07 g). The lowest dry weight of root was found in control (0.51 g). The root length was found highest in treatment drenching with 0.4% humic acid (15.97 cm) while minimum length of root was observed control (5.1 cm).