Vol. 12, Issue 8 (2023)

Author(s):
Neeraj, BS Beniwal, Savita and Sonu Sheoran

Abstract:
The present investigation was carried out at Agri-Tourism Centre, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. This experiment was laid out in Factorial Randomised Block Design (RBD) with four replications. It consists of four planting dates viz. 10^th October, 2018, 17^th October, 2018, 24^th October, 2018 and 1st November, 2018 with three growing conditions viz. open condition, polyhouse and shade net. With the possible combination of planting time and growing conditions maximum number of florets per spike (11.10) was observed with 10^th October in open condition. The planting on 10^th October recorded significantly maximum spike length (75.80 cm), floret diameter(8.94 cm), number of spikes per plant (1.75), number of spikes per plot (21.6), number of estimated spikes (000) per hectare (150) and significantly lowest days taken to slipping stage(75.97), days taken to full emergence of spike (83.72), days taken to first floret to show colour (89.50) and days taken to opening of first floret (92.50) in comparison to four planting dates in all growing conditions. Maximum flowering duration (8.22 days) was recorded on 1^st November planting. Among the various growing conditions, all flowering and spike characters were recorded better in plants grown under polyhouse condition as compared to open and shade net. Numbers of florets per spike and yield characters were superior in open condition.