Vol. 10, Issue 10 (2021)

Author(s):
Bashaboina Sunil, P Prasanth, Lakshminarayana and Praneeth Kumar

Abstract:
A field investigation entitled “Effect of portion of cuttings and root microbial inoculants, chitosan and IBA on rooting of Aglaonema cuttings (Aglaonema commutatum L.)” was carried at Floriculture Research Station, (Agricultural Research Institute) Rajendranagar, Hyderabad during October to April 2020-2021. The experiment was laid out in Factorial Completely Randomized Design with three replications. The experiment was conducted with two factors, portion of cuttings (Top and middle) as one factor and different levels of root microbial inoculants, chitosan and IBA as another factor. The study revealed that, among different treatment combinations i.e., P1 - (Top cutting) with S6 - (P. fluorescence -5 ml / kg) + IBA - 1000 ppm) recorded least number of days taken to rooting (24.08 days), average length of root per cutting (14.28 cm), rooting percentage (86.67 %), fresh weight of roots per cutting (15.52 g) anddry weight of roots per cutting (4.86 g). Hence, it can be concluded that, Top cuttings + P. fluroscence 5ml/ kg + IBA 1000 ppm found to be best treatments for improve rooting of Aglaonema cuttings.