Vol. 10, Issue 12 (2021)

Author(s):
Damini Visen, Anuj Kumar, Priyamvada Sonkar and Roshan Gallani

Abstract:
The present investigation was conducted during 2019-2020 under the shade net house, of Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, College of Horticulture, Mandsaur, RVSKVV, Gwalior (M.P.). The experiment was comprised of eight cultivars (Coffee, Hybrid-1, Hybrid-2, Mountaineer, Star White, Star Yellow, Tata Century and Thai Chen Queen) laid out in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with three replication. Study revealed that the cultivars showed significant difference with respect to growth and post harvest life parameters. Among the standard cultivars studied the cultivar Star Yellow showed best performance with respect to plant height at 30 and 60 DAT and plant spread at 30 DAT, while maximum plant spread (at 60 DAT), number of leaves (at 60 DAT), number of leaves per plant at 60 DAT, vase life, maximum fresh weight of flowers at harvest, and fresh weight of flowers at senescence was recorded with Thai Chen Queen. On the other hand cultivar maximum number of leaves per plant at 30 DAT was noticed in the cultivar Star White. However, the minimum plant height (at 30and 60 DAT), plant spread (30 DAT and 60 DAT), number of leaves per plant (at 60 DAT), vase-life, fresh weight of flower at harvest and fresh weight of flower at senescence was found in cv. Hybrid-1.