Effect of organic potting media on growth performance of rose stem cuttings

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.