Root Parameter Investigation in Standardized Media for Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea comm. Ex Juss.) Propagation

Abstract

The study was conducted in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with 16 treatments and 5 replications comprising of soilless media and biofertilizer Azotobacter. The present experiment entitled “Standardization of media for propagation of Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea comm. Ex Juss.)” was carried out at Horticultural nursery, College of Agriculture, IGKV, Raipur, (C.G) during the year 2019-20. All of the media treatments compared to the control had better vegetative and rooting qualities. Soil + Sand + Cocopeat had the highest sprouting rate and survival percentage of all the media treatments tested. All other Root attributes viz. The minimum days to rooting (144.80), The longest root length (6.08), highest number of roots per cutting (63.54). The most cuttings that could successfully take root (24.00) were found to be idealistic in media including soil, sand, and cocopeat. The results showed that all increasing media treatments had a substantial impact on all variables related to Bougainvillea development, including shoot and root growth. The results showed that the development of Bougainvillea as well as all the growing media treatments had a significant impact on all the characters' associated root growth. The maximum overall  production cost has been seen in T6 (Soil + Sand + Cocopeat) and the least production cost in T13 (Soil + Azotobacter). Combination of rooting media has been beneficial to significantly increase the vegetative growth parameters and economics as compared to control in Bougainvillea.