Vase Life Studies as Influenced by Biofertilizers in Different Sized Gladiolus Seed Corms (Gladiolus grandiflorus L.) cv. Piccardy

An experiment was conducted on the effect of vase life studies on biofertilizers coated different sized corms of gladiolus spikes during the year 2013–14 at Department of seed science and technology UAS Bengaluru, Karnataka state. The experiment was laid out in Factorial complete block design with three replications and four vase solution treatments (0, 2, 3 percent sucrose). The result reveals that mean maximum water uptake of 59.08 g was found in treatment VAM+ Azospirillum+ Azotobactor + large size corm+ RDF (T₁₅) harvested spikes in Three percent sucrose vase solution as compared with control (no inoculation) +small size+ RDF (49.99 g) in distilled water and maximum vase life of (10.66 days) was recorded in spikes harvested from VAM+ Azospirillum+ Azotobactor + large size corm+ RDF treated plots(T₁₅) in 3 percent vase solution.