Effect of corm size on growth, flowering and spike yield in gladiolus cv. American Beauty under Konkan condition.

摘要

The results revealed significant variation in growth, flower quality and flower yield. The larger corms (above 5.0 cm diameter) recorded significantly profuse growth in terms of early sprouting, maximum numbers of leaves and bigger size leaves; early commencement of flower (81.0 days), better floret quality in respect of spike length (96.92 cm), number of florets spike-1 (14.98), floret size (11,95 cm), floret length (10.18 cm) and diameter of flower stalk (0.923 cm) as well as number of spike yield plant-1 (1.29) and also per plot (11.22) as compared with other corm sizes and found significantly superior over other corm sizes.