Record Details

Studies on gerbera flower production under greenhouse condition

KrishiKosh

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Studies on gerbera flower production under greenhouse condition
 
Creator Soni, Shashi Shankar
 
Contributor Godara, A.K.
 
Subject Regeneration, Planting, Biological development, Developmental stages, Biological phenomena, Cytokinins, Hybridization, Crossing over, Pigeonpeas, Embryonic development
 
Description The performance of gerbera varieties under greenhouse
conditions was evaluated at Hi-Tech Greenhouse of CCS Haryana Agricultural
University, Hisar, Haryana during 2008-09. Ten gerbera varieties viz., Amulet,
Dana Ellen, Doni, Goliath, Paco, Rosalin, Salvadore, Savannah, Sunway and
Winter Queen were selected for evaluation. Healthy tissue cultured plants
were planted on raised beds in two rows at spacing of 35 X 30 cm. Planting
was done in the month of March, 2008 and the observations on growth and
flowering were recorded. There was a significant variation in plant growth, cut
flower yield and flower quality parameters of different varieties of gerbera. The
vegetative growth was the maximum in var. Dana Ellen. The maximum plant
height (41.27cm), number of leaves (42.60), plant spread (62.80 cm) and leaf
area (6425.60cm2) was recorded in var. Dana Ellen. The var. Amulet was the
earliest (61.33 days) in flower bud appearance and var. Dana Ellen took the
minimum number of days for flower opening. The var. Dana Ellen produced the maximum number (21.13) of quality cut flowers followed by Amulet
(17.13) during the period under study. The var. Dana Ellen and Doni
produced the longest stalk length (62.80 cm and 61.80 cm respectively) and
the maximum diameter of flower (14.22 cm and 13.87 cm respectively).
Variation in potash content and total chlorophyll content was also was
observed. The maximum potash content was recorded in var. Dana Ellen and
the higher content of total chlorophyll was recorded in var. Winter Queen.
Healthy tissue cultured plants (three-four leaf stage) of gerbera cv.
Winter Queen were planted on raised beds (45 cm high) in two rows at
spacing of 35x30 cm. Fifteen days after the establishment of plants they were
sprayed with Borax, FeSO4 and MnSO4 at different concentrations (0.1% and
0.3%) and different interval (fortnightly and monthly). The experiment was
laid out in a complete randomized design with four replications. The effect of
foliar application of B, Fe and Mn on vegetative characters, flowering
parameters and nutrient content in leaves were studied. A significant
variation in vegetative growth, cut flower yield and quality parameters were
recorded by the foliar application of micronutrients (Borax, FeSO4 and MnSO4)
over the control. Among the treatments, the foliar application of FeSO4 at
0.3% at 15 days interval recorded the maximum plant height (45.29 cm) plant
spread (63.00 cm) number of leaves (45.23) and leaf area (6270.79 cm2).
Borax at 0.3% significantly reduced the time taken for flowering among all the
treatments. The maximum number of flowers (22.69) with longest stalk length
(61.62 cm) and the maximum size (13.82 cm) were recorded with Borax at
0.3% at 15 days interval. The spray of FeSO4 at 0.3% at 15 days interval
significantly improved the NPK and chlorophyll content of leaves.
 
Date 2016-11-16T11:40:33Z
2016-11-16T11:40:33Z
2009
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/85804
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU