Effect of rootstock and time of grafting in low-chill peach cultivars

An experiment was conducted to study the propagation of low-chill peaches in Tarai region of Uttarakhand. Three cultivars of peach viz. Pratap, Shan-i-Punjab and Saharanpur Prabhat were grafted at seven days intervals on two different rootstocks. Grafting at third week of February recorded the earliest sprouting, more success (bud take percentage) and maximum number of saleable plants than other grafting times which was started from second week of January to last week of February. Wild peach can be used as rootstocks for low-chill peaches to obtain more successful plants over plum rootstocks. Low-chill peach cv. Pratap, resulted the highest sprouting percentage as well as saleable plants percentage followed by Shan-i-Punjab and Saharanpur Prabhat.