Vol. 12, Issue 8 (2023)

Author(s):
Prithvi KS, Padmapriya S, Rajamani K, Senthil N and Ganesan KN

Abstract:
An experiment entitled “Morphological studies on Growth and Flowering of Gladiolus (Gladiolus hybridus) cultivars” was carried out in Botanical Garden, Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, Horticulture College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu during 2022-2023. The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design with 12 treatments (cultivars) and three replications. With respect to growth parameters, the cultivar Dhanvantari showed maximum plant height (32.77 cm), maximum number of leaves (8.00), maximum leaf width (5.11 cm), more leaf area (101.62 cm²). In case of flowering and quality parameters, Arka Gold and Arka Pratham recorded the minimum number of days (63.00) to spike emergence. The cultivar Dhanvantari had more number of spikes per plant (2.00), length of spike (95.44 cm), diameter of first floret (9.00 cm). The cultivar Arka Amar had the longest period of vase life (11.00 days).