Revealing cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis) genotypes for seed yield and its contributing characters on different sowing dates

The experiments were conducted during the successive season 2022 at Vegetable farm, Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo to evaluate the Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis) genotypes for seed yield and its contributing characters sown on different sowing dates. The results revealed that improved PSC 117-118 genotype recorded earliest days to 50% flowering (95.66d), number of leaves 24.45 by Kartiki genotype, breadth of leaf 24.23 cm in PSC104, maximum polar diameter 18.27 cm by Noval and maximum length of leaf 42.17 cm, maximum equatorial diameter 27.15 cm, minimum days to siliqua maturity 156.66d, pod length 7.64 cm, pods per plant 712, 1000 seed weight 1.78 g, grains per pod 12.44, highest seed yield per plant 12.35 g was recorded in Super 70 as compared with the other cauliflower genotypes. The combined effect of sowing dates and genotypes showed that crop sown on 8^th September with PSC104, PSC117-118, Noval, Kartiki genotypes performed well in respect of growth characters and Super 70 genotype in seed yield parameters were found to be the best from all other varieties.