Novel propagation of fruit species through mini-cuttings and leaves

The main objective of the study was to standardize mini-cutting and leaf propagation in selected four fruit species locally available around College of Forestry, Sirsi. Mini-cuttings and leaves of 4 species namely Annona muricata, Annona squamosa, Garcinia morella and Morinda citrifolia were taken and planted in zip lock covers with coir pith as the rooting media inside the polyhouse. Three treatments were control, 1000 ppm of IBAand 1000 ppm of Coumarin were given. The experiment was conducted in two seasons i.e., spring and rainy season. Survival per cent of all the four species was seen higher in the rainy season than the spring season. Treatment with 1000 ppm of IBA and coumarin was effective in root length (and) or number of roots in either of the seasons in both propagation methods. Three species selected for the study adapted well to mini-cutting technology which shows that it is possible to propagate genotypes with superior characteristics through mini-cutting with a greater number of seedlings per source. However, complete propagation of plant was not possible through leaves.