Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)
Effect of potting media on growth of soft wood grafts of nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt.)
Author(s): DC Rajput, MS Gawankar, BR Salvi, RG Khandekar, YR Parulekar, VG Salvi, KV Malshe, SV Juvekar and VB Chavan
Abstract: Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt.) performs well under humid tropical climate. Agro climatic conditions of Konkan are suitable for cultivation of nutmeg. Nutmeg and mace both are used as condiment particularly in sweet foods, baking etc. The initial growth of nutmeg grafts is very slow which needs to be hasten for getting quality planting material and better price in a short span of nursery stage. With this view the experiment on effect of potting media on growth of soft wood grafts of nutmeg was laid out at College of Agriculture, Dapoli during the year 2018. The Randomized Block Design with six treatments and four replications was tried to evaluate the effect of different media on the growth of soft wood grafts of nutmeg. The different media combinations namely T1: Soil + FYM + Sand (2:1:1) (Control),T2:Soil +FYM+ Sand (2:1:1) with 1†cocopeat at top, T3: Soil + Vermicompost + Sand (2:1:1) with 1†Cocopeat at top, T4: Soil + FYM+ Vermicompost + Sand (1:1:1:1) with 1†Cocopeat at top, T5:Soil + FYM+ Vermicompost + Rice husk (1:1:1:1) with 1†Cocopeat at top, T6:Soil + FYM+ Vermicompost + Cocopeat (1:1:1:1) were tried. The results revealed that the best performance of nutmeg soft wood graft was observed in the media having Soil + FYM+ Vermicompost + Rice husk (1:1:1:1) with 1†Cocopeat at top. This combination had maximum survival percentage of grafts (82.00%), graft height (43.87 cm), girth (6.95 mm), number of shoots (2.05) and internodal length (3.83 cm) at 360 DAB. However, maximum increment in height over initial height (131.62%) was noticed in Soil + FYM + Vermicompost + Cocopeat media at 1:1:1:1 proportion.
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DC Rajput, MS Gawankar, BR Salvi, RG Khandekar, YR Parulekar, VG Salvi, KV Malshe, SV Juvekar, VB Chavan. Effect of potting media on growth of soft wood grafts of nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt.). Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(5):2949-2952.
