Abstract
The study was carried out at Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, Himachal Pradesh. Fourteen strawberry cultivars were evaluated for their vegetative (plant height, plant spread, number of leaves per plant, leaf area, number of runners per plant, days to runner formation after planting and petiole length) as well as floral characteristics (opening of first flower, opening of last flower, duration of flowering and days to flowering). It was observed that cv. Chandler outperformed all other cultivars for vegetative characters such as plant height (25.23 cm), plant spread (41.60 cm), number of leaves (38) and leaf area (172.93 cm2). Maximum number of runners per plant (51.50) and petiole length (16.48 cm) were found in Chandler. The cultivar Sweet Charlie was earliest to flower and the duration of flowering was longest in ‘Chandler’ (97.08 days) and also took minimum days to flowering. All cultivars showed significant variation in opening of flower.
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