1College of Horticulture & Forestry, Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India
2Department of Horticulture, Agriculture University, Kota, 324-002, India
3Department of Fruit Science, GBPUAT, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, 263-145
4Department of Horticulture, SKNAU, Jobner, Jaipur, 303-329, India
*Corresponding author : mukeshchandbhateshwar@gmail.com
Online published on 14 April, 2025.
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.
Development, Growth, Mulching, Thickness, Vegetative growth
