Range Management and Agroforestry
Open Access
SCOPUSWeb of Science
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 33
  • Issue: 2

Evaluation of pot mixture for propagation of bamboo species (Bambusa tulda)

  • Author:
  • K. Raja, K. Sivasubramaniam, R. Geetha, R. Anandham1
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 182 to 184

1Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Agricultural College and Research Institute TNAU, Madurai – 625 104 (India)

Department of Seed Science and Technology, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Madurai – 625 104 (India)

*Corresponding author e-mail: kraja_sst@rediffmail.com

Online published on 16 February, 2013.

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to find out the suitable pot mixture for the improvement of the vigour of the seedlings in Bambusa tulda. Pot mixture containing soil + sand + vermicompost (2:1:1) recorded the maximum seedling survival (82.5%), seedling height (131.3 cm) and number of offsets (12.4) at 10 months after sowing.

Keywords

Bamboo, Bambusa tulda, Biofertilizers, Nursery mixture, Seed propagation, Vermicompost