Vol. 12, Issue 5 (2023)

Author(s):
Shashi Kiran Minj, Pooja Gupta, Rajnish Kumar Sahu and Madhavi Khilari

Abstract:
The present experiment entitled “Standardization of media for propagation of Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea comm. Ex Juss.)” was carried out at Horticultural nursery, College of Agriculture, IGKV, Raipur, (C.G) during the year 2019-20 and the experiment was conducted in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with 16 treatments and 5 replications comprising of soilless media and biofertilizer Azotobacter. All the media treatments studied recorded superior vegetative and rooting attributes over control. Among the media treatments studied soil + sand + cocopeat recorded maximum sprouting percentage and survival percentage. All other vegetative attributes viz. number of sprouts (3.60), sprouting percentage (72%), number of plants established (22), highest number of branches at(4.80), maximum number of leaves (80.0), highest shoot length at (74.00 cm), the highest valuefor Plant height (78.80 cm) found optimistic in media containing cocopeat with soil and sand.The findings revealed that all increasing media treatments had a significant effect on all characters relevant to shoot and root growth and also the development of Bougainvillea. The findings revealed that all the characters linked to shoot and root growth were greatly affected by all the growing media treatments and also the development of Bougainvillea. The maximum overall production cost has been seen in T6 (Soil + Sand + Cocopeat) and the least production cost in T13 (Soil + Azotobacter). Combination of rooting media has been beneficial to significantly increase the vegetative growth parameters and economics as compared to control in Bougainvillea.