Optimizing mulch thickness for enhanced vegetative growth of khirni (Manilkara hexandra)
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Development, Growth, Mulching, Thickness, Vegetative growthAbstract
A field experiment for optimizing mulch thickness for enhanced vegetative growth of khirni (Manilkara hexandra Roxb.) cv. Thar
Rituraj was conducted during the 2019-20 at College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar, Rajasthan. Among different thicknesses
application of T6-12 cm thickness of dry grass to individual plants was significantly superior to all other treatments, but it was on at
par with T5-10 cm thickness of dry grass. In treatment T6, an increase in shoot and leaf parameters, such as rootstock girth (10.98%),
scion girth (11.05%), plant height (32.61%), number of nodes/shoot (80.52%), number of internodes/shoot (94.33%), number of
leaves/plant (39.94%), leaf length (13.45%) and leaf area index (1.50%), were recorded during February 2020.
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