Abstract:
The pot experiment was carried out to study the
effect of different organic potting media on the
growth parameters of rose stem cuttings. It was
carried out with five treatments with four
replications comprised of different organic
potting media, T1 (no organic manure), T2
(cow dung), T3 (sawdust), T4 (poultry
manure), T5 (goat manure). in a Completely
Randomized Design. The results confirmed that
the different organic potting media had significant
differences in the number of leaves, number of
sprouts, length of internodes, length a diameter of
the main root, root area and root volume, fresh
and dry weights of shoot and fresh and dry weights
of the root. According to the statistically analyzed
results, T4 (Poultry manure) gave a higher growth
in the tested growth parameters of rose cutting
which could be used as potting media for
vegetative plant propagation. Poultry manure is
environmentally friendly organic manure and it
contains high nutrients, thereby it could be used
for enhancing the growth of rose stem cuttings.
