Response of Various Organic Manures and its Combinations on Growth, Flowering and Cormels of Gladiolus

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted at Agriculture Farm School of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, RIMT University, Mandi Gobindgarh (Punjab) during November-April (2022-23) to study the response of various organic manure and its combination on growth, flowering and corm attributes of gladiolus cultivar Punjab Dawn. The experiment consisted of ten  treatments by combining cow dung, cow urine, milk, curd, ghee, jiggery, flour, soil, water, pulse flour, mustard oil and honey at different amount s along with control and replicated thrice. Treatment T7 recorded with minimum days to sprouting (17.44 days), tallest plant height (88.97 cm), maximum leaf length (38.16 cm), wider leaf breadth (2.80 cm), minimum days to complete sprouting (8.00 days), minimum days to spike emergence (99.55 days) and lesser days to the first colour  shown (103.11 days) whereas, more number of leaves/plant (10.11), a greater  weight of individual cormel (0.45 g) , the weight  of cormels/corm (3.04 g) and greater cormel diameter (0.51 cm)  were measured with treatment T5 and maximum rachis length (37.96 cm), longer duration of flowering (6.14 days) and more number of cormels/corm (8.51),  were resulted by treatment T2,  T6 and T3, respectively.