Division of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Horticulture, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
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Online published on 23 October, 2017.
The experiment was carried out to evaluate the influence of calcium nitrate sprays on improvement of corm size in gladiolus (Gladiolus hybridus Hort.) cv. Priscilla. Twelve treatment combinations comprising three levels of calcium nitrate sprays (1%) were applied at 45 and 60; 45, 60 and 75; 45, 60, 75 and 90 DAP, besides control (no spray) and the cormel grades were employed ranging from 1.5–2.0 cm, 2.0–2.5 cm and 2.5–3.0 cm. Four sprays of calcium nitrate and cormel grade 2.5–3.0 cm were best in recording most of the vegetative and corm growth characteristics in comparison to control.
Gladiolus, calcium nitrate, nitrogen, cormel grade, DAP, days after planting
