Vol. 12, Issue 7 (2023)

A field experiment entitled “Effect of time on the success of inarching in Khirni (Manilkara hexandra L.) cv. Thar Rituraj” was conducted during the year 2022-2023 at the Instructional Farm, Department of Fruit Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar. The experiment consisted of nine treatments, i.e. dates of inarching from 20^th June to 30^th November laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications. Among different times, inarching practised during 30^th July (T₃) was found significantly superior over all other treatments. In this treatment, the maximum increase was noticed in shoot parameters like length of new growth (29.96 cm), diameter of new growth (2.29 mm), number of nodes/plant (29), rootstock girth (7.61 mm), scion girth (6.46 mm), height of the plant (56.09 cm), number of primary branches (09) and leaf parameters like leaf length (4.13 cm), leaf width (2.99 cm), leaf area (8.02 cm²), number of leaves/plant (25) and chlorophyll content (1.35 mg/g) along with cent per cent survival was also observed in this treatment. Hence it may be summarized that inarching at the time of 30^th July (T₃) can be practised as an alternative method of propagation of Khirni (Manilkara hexandra L.).