EFFECT OF RICE STRAW AND WATER HYACINTH MULCH ON
TUBEROSE (Polianthes tuberose L) PRODUCTION
Authors: M.R. Amin,
M.N. Sultana, S. Sultana, H.
Mehraj and A.F.M. Jamal Uddin*
*Corresponding
author: jamal4@yahoo.com
Abstract
The study was conducted at
the Horticultural Farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka during
the period from May 2010 to February, 2011. The experiment consisted of three
levels of mulch (M0, control; M1, Rice straw mulch and M2,
water hyacinth mulch). Results showed that mulch application (both M1
and M2) had significant effect on different morphological parameters
showing significantly higher values of all the parameters than control. M2
always showed higher values of plant height (67.80 cm), number of leaf (11.40),
% flowering plant (91.40), length of flower stalk (66.30 cm), lenth of rachis (34.20
cm), number of spikelets (14.00), per hectare number of spikelets (346), weight
of individual bulb (28.20 g), number of bulblet (23.20), weight of bulblet (13.40
g), and yield of bulblet and bulb (22.40 t) compared to M1. However the
values with M2 were significantly higher than M1 for the
parameters of % flowering plants (91.40), number of spikelets spike-1
(14.00), weight of bublet (13.40 g plant-1) and yield of bulb (25.60
t ha-1).
Keywords: Mulch, tuberose and flower.
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