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Internat. J. agric. Sci. Vol.2 No.2 July 2006 : (356-357) 356
Effect of pinching on carnation cv. YELLOW SOLAR under polyhouse condition
S.R. Dalal*, D.R. Nandre, S.G. Bharad, Swarupa Utgikar and R.D. Shinde
University Department of Horticulture, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, AKOLA (M.S.) INDIA
ABSTRACT
An experiment was conducted to study the effect of pinching methods on carnation under polyhouse cv. Yellow solar on growth, flowering,
flower yield, quality and vase life in Complete Randomized Design. The results revealed that, maximum plant height, nodes per flower stalk,
flower bud appearance, diameter of flower, cumulative uptake of water and vase life were observed in no-pinching, while, shoots per plant,
flower yield per plant and per sq.m were observed in double-pinching.
Keywords : Pinching, Carnation, Polyhouse.
INTRODUCTION RESULTSAND DISCUSSION
Floriculture is profession having higher potential to return money 1) Growth and flowering
from unit area in protected cultivation. Carnation (Dianthus The data presented in Table 1 showed that, significantly the
caryophyllus L.) belongs to family Caryophyllaceae is one of the maximum plant height (81.11 cm), nodes per flower stalk (15.30),
most important cut flower and ranks third in world global market in early flower bud appearance (49.17 days) and less number of shoots
area and production. Application of various special horticultural per plant (4.50) were observed under the control treatment (No
practices after standardization can be helpful to achieve the target pinched). However, maximum number of shots (9.00), minimum plant
of top quality cut flower production. Similarly, pinching is one of the height (65.66 cm), nodes per flower stalk (14.23) and late flowering
most important cultural practice for successful cultivation of carnation (169.01 days) were recorded under double pinched treatment. The
under polyhouse conditions. Pinching has direct relationship with lowest plant height in pinched plant in the present investigation was
production of flower and regulation of flowering for successful due to removal of apical portion, which neutralize the effect of apical
marketing. dominance and increased number of branches, number of nodes
and stem length has direct relationship. More the stalk length , more
MATERIALS AND METHODS the number of nodes. Pinching treatment delayed the flowering and
The present investigation was carried out on cv. Yellow solar delay was aggravated with increase in severity of pinching. This
to find out the effect of pinching on carnation under polyhouse delay might be due to repetitive removal of apical portion, due to
conditions during January to August, 2003, at Floriculture Unit, which phenomenon of Apical dominance get breaked in pinch shoots
University Department of Horticulture, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi and thus took longer time to become physiological mature for
Vidyapeeth, Akola. The experiment was laid out in Complete flowering. The above findings thus agreed with results obtained by
Randomized Design with 10 replications. In the present investigation, Patel and Arora (1983), Chavan (2003) and Shahakar (2003).
three levels of pinching were tried (no pinching, single pinching,
double pinching) to study the effect of pinching on growth, flowering, 2) Flower yield :
flower yield, flower quality and vase life. Single pinching were done The data revealed that, plant pinched twice recorded
at 20 days after planting and double pinching were at 50 days after significantly superior number of flowers per plant (7.88) and per
planting. sq.m (283.68). However, significantly inferior number of flowers per
Bed of 40 cm height and 1 m width having 10 m length were plant (3.21) and per sq.m (115.56) were recorded in without pinched
prepared. The media was prepared by mixing 60% red soil, 30% plants. As the severity of pinching increased, number of shoots
FYM and 10% sand. Beds were sterilized by using 0.2% were also increased and hence, resulted into increase in number of
formaldehyde. Rooted stem cutting of carnation cultivar yellow solar flowers. These results are in congruent with the results of Bhautkar
was planted at 15 x 15 cm. Water soluble fertilizers were applied at (1994) in carnation and Bholane (1998) in chrysanthemum.
the rate of 40 g N, 10 g P2O5, 10 g K2O/m2, at 3 days interval. All other
cultural practices were applied as and when required. The 3) Flower quality
observations on growth, flowering, flower yield, flower quality and Significantly highest flower stalk length (75.82 cm) was
vase life in different pinching methods were recorded and presented recorded in no-pinched treatment. However, significantly lowest
in Table 1. length of flower stalk (62.90 cm) was recorded in double-pinched
Table 1: Effect of pinching on carnation under polyhouse conditions
Treatments Height of Shoots/ Nodes / Appearance Flowers/ Flowers/ Diameter Length of Cumulative Vase life
plant (cm) plant flower of first bud plant sq.m of flower flower water (days)
stalk (days) (cm) stalk (cm) uptake
(g/flower)
No-pinching 81.11 4.50 15.30 49.17 3.21 115.56 5.14 75.82 16.24 7.93
Single-pinching 74.94 5.20 14.76 125.34 6.57 236.52 5.12 72.27 15.70 7.56
Double-pinching 65.66 9.00 14.23 169.01 7.88 283.68 5.11 62.90 15.20 7.12
F test SIG. SIG. SIG. SIG. SIG. SIG. SIG. SIG. SIG. SIG.
SE (m) 7.40 0.43 0.04 0.31 0.05 2.04 0.05 7.90 0.06 0.04
C.D. at 5% 22.20 1.27 0.12 0.94 0.16 6.08 -- 23.48 0.18 0.14
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