Authors:Gopal Shukla; Amarendra Nath Dey; Sumit Chakravarty
Abstract:An experiment consisting six growing media (soil, 1soil : 1sand: 2FYM, 1soil: 1sand: 1FYM, 1soil: 1FYM, 1soil: 1sand and 2soil: 1sand) and three seed weight (25, 25-50 and above 50 gm) were analysed to study the effect on germination and seeding growth of Melocanna baciffera (Roxb.) Kurz at Pundibari, West Bengal, India during Feb. to April,2008. Seed of above 50 g weight sawn in equal proportion of soil, sand and FYM gave significantly better germination and seedling growth than other media used.
Keywords:growing media;