Effect of age of rootstock, growing media and growing conditions on the success and survival of epicotyl grafting in mango (Mangifera in Dica L.)

The present investigation entitled “Effect of age of rootstock, growing media and growing conditions on the success and survival of epicotyl grafting in mango (Mangifera indica L.)’’, was conducted at Horticultural Research Centre (HRC) of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, during the rainy-winter to spring season of 2013–14 and 2014–15. The experiment was conducted using two age of rootstock (7 and 9 days old seedling rootstock), twelve growing medium and two growing conditions (open and shade) in a Factorial Randomized Block Design with twelve treatments and four replications. Based on the results of two years study, it can therefore be concluded that epicotyl grafting in mango was found to be most successful in terms of bud sprouting and survival percentage when performed on 7 days old seedling rootstock (17.39% increase in percent success over 9 days old seedling rootstock) grown in poly bag mixture of Soil+ Sawdust+ Vermicompost (17.39% increase in percent success over 9 days old seedling rootstock). Epicotyl grafting when performed under shade condition exhibited better performance over open condition (17.80% increase in percent success over open condition.