Effect of Organic Manures and their Levels on Yield, Nutrient Content and Seed Characteristics of French Marigold (Tagetes patula L.)

摘要

A pot experiment was carried out in the screen house of the Department of Horticulture, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana), India during the crop season of 2006-07. The pot experiment comprising 19 treatments, three levels of organicmanure FYM, vermicompost and poultry manure with six levels of sand, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750 andlOOO g/kg of sand along with control was carried out as factorial complete randomized design with four replications. Results showed that the flower yield wasmaximum when fertilized with 750 g per kg of sand with FYM and poultry manure with the level of 750 g and in case of vermicompost it was maximum with 1000 g vermicompost per kg of sand. Seed germination (%), seed vigour-I & II and per cent NPK content ofplant were recorded with the application of 1000 g per kg of sand of different organic manures. Fresh weight of flower, seed yield per plant and 1000-seed weight were recorded maximum with levels of 750 g organic manures per kg of sand. It may be concluded that among the different organic manures, poultry manure gave the best results followed by vermicompost and FYM.