Study of Growth Parameters and Germination on Tomato Seedlings with Different Growth Media
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.), from family solanaceae is a popularly cultivated vegetable in the world, and is famous for its nutritive and medicinal values.There are some shortcomings in the traditional transplanting such as low productivity, poor quality, high cost and also sometimes farmers face problems to raise tomato seedlings in due time to adverse environmental conditions. This technique has the potential to use in adverse condition and ultimately facilitates the production of vegetable seedlings in time with low cost, high productivity and good quality seedlings. Hence, this study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of different age of seedlings with growth media on seed germination and production of healthy vegetable seedling. Tomato seedlings were considered as the transplanting object to study the growth parameters with different aged seedlings and growth media. Tomato seedlings of20, 25 and 30 days age were used for observation. The seedlings were grown in portray (17 x 13= 221 cells) with three different growth media viz. coir pith (M1), vermin compost (M2) and coir pith + vermin compost (4:1) (M3). A completely randomized design (CRD) with three repetitions was used. Data were subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results revealed significant differences (p>0.05) in seedling growth parameters among the three growing media. The maximum growth parameters (shoot length, root length, stem diameter and no. of leaves) were observed at30 days aged seedlings in coir pith. The minimum growth parameters were observed in vermin compost for the same day of age seedlings. The maximum germination was found to be 99 per cent with coir pith. Hence, coir pith was found as optimum growth media for growing of tomato seedlings.
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P. Vivek, V. M. Duraisamy
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