Abstract
An experiment was carried out with six cultivars of gladiolus, viz. Casa Blanca, Golden Goddess, Fidelio, Rosibee Red, Spic-N-Span and White Friendship to evaluate their performance for vegetative growth, flowering, corm and cormels characters for off season under sub-tropical mid- hills of Meghalaya during 2007-08. Among the quality flowering characters, cultivar Casa Blanca produced longest flowering spike (98.07 cm), longest rachis (51.10 cm), florets/ spike (15.22), diameter of 1st floret (10.02 cm) and duration of flowering (13.63 days). Cultivar Spic-N-Span produced bigger size (4.83 cm) and corm weight (42.50 g), maximum polar (2.03 cm) and equatorial (1.73) diameter, weight of 20 cormels (14.74 g), propagation coefficient (266.50). With the results obtained, it can be concluded that cultivar Casa Blanca was found suitable and recommended for cut flower quality and cultivar Spic-N-Span for quality corms and cormels production for off season under sub-tropical mid- hills of Meghalaya.
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