Optimizing mulch thickness for enhanced vegetative growth of  khirni (Manilkara hexandra)

Mukesh Chand Bhateshwar; Jitendra Singh; P Bhatnagar; Pooja Sharma; Jitendra Singh Shivran; Kamal Mahala

doi:10.48165/

Authors

Mukesh Chand Bhateshwar College of Horticulture & Forestry, Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India
Jitendra Singh College of Horticulture & Forestry, Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India
P Bhatnagar College of Horticulture & Forestry, Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India
Pooja Sharma Department of Horticulture, Agriculture University, Kota 324-002
Jitendra Singh Shivran Department of Fruit Science, GBPUT, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand 263-145
Kamal Mahala Department of Horticulture, SKNAU, Jobner, Jaipur 303-329 India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Development, Growth, Mulching, Thickness, Vegetative growth

Abstract

A field experiment for optimizing mulch thickness for enhanced vegetative growth of khirni (Manilkara hexandra Roxb.) cv. Thar Rituraj was conducted during the 2019-20 at College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar, Rajasthan. Among different thicknesses application of T6-12 cm thickness of dry grass to individual plants was significantly superior to all other treatments, but it was on at par with T5-10 cm thickness of dry grass. In treatment T6, an increase in shoot and leaf parameters, such as rootstock girth (10.98%), scion girth (11.05%), plant height (32.61%), number of nodes/shoot (80.52%), number of internodes/shoot (94.33%), number of leaves/plant (39.94%), leaf length (13.45%) and leaf area index (1.50%), were recorded during February 2020.

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