Standardization of Age of Kokum Seedling (Garcinia indica Choisy) for Transferring in Polybag

Abstract

The demand of kokum graft, as well as, seedlings, is more in konkan region and Maharashtra, Goa region. To fulfill the demand, as well as for healthy grafts the experiment was laid out at AICRP Oil Palm, College of Horticulture, Mulde along with 12 treatments and 2 replications. Fresh clean seeds of ripe kokum fruits were sown on nursery bed and after germination they were used for transferring in 6x8’’poly bags having 4x6’’Soil +FYM +Rice husk+2gm VAM (2:1:1). As per T1 treatment some seeds sown directly in poly bag, some seedling transfer as per treatments after sprouting T2, 10 days T3, 20 days T4, 30 days T5, 40 days T6, 50 days T7, 60 days T8, 70 days T9, 80 days T10, 90 days T11, 100 days seedling T12. Observation were recorded at 30,180,270 and 360 days after transferring in poly bags. The result recorded that T3 10 days seedling recorded significantly minimum days to attain the graftable stage i.e., 173 days after transferring along with highest percentage of survival 98.17 %.