Efficacy of Soilless and Soil Based Potting Mixture for Pot Mum (Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat.) Production
摘要
Chrysanthemums are highly acceptable worldwide due to their attractive flower colour, shape and size. Ten soil based and soilless potting media consisted of Soil, FYM, Perlite, Leaf Mould, Vermicompost and Cocopeat in different ratios were evaluated to find out the best mixture using variety ‘Yellow Charm’ for quality pot production. Treatment combination consisting of Soil + Vermicompost + Perlite (50:30:20) was found to be the best resulted in the highest flowers per plant, early flowering with improved growth and quality pot mum production.