Volume 20 No 10 (2022)
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Response of bitter orange seedlings to effect of adding Ferti Mar and GROWX AMINO MIX on some vegetative traits
Mohammed Ghani Mohsen , Mahmoud S. Abdel-Wahed
Abstract
The experiment was carried out in the Saran-covered nursery of the Department of Horticulture and Landscaping, College of Agriculture and Marshes, at Dhi-Qar University during the growing season (2021-2022). One-year-old bitter orange seedlings were obtained as homogeneous in growth as possible from one of the Baghdad governorate nurseries on February 20.2022. The seedlings were transferred to plastic pots with a capacity of 10 kg (26 cm diameter) filled with an agricultural medium consisting of mixed soil and moss in a ratio of 1:3. The process of servicing the plants was carried out similarly, such as pruning, hoeing, fertilizing and irrigation throughout the study period, the study was carried out as a two-factor experiment using Randomized Complete Block Design (R.C.B.D).The first factor represented the spraying by Ferti Mar compound at four concentrations (0, 0.5, 1, 1.5) ml l -1 , and the second factor spraying by GROWX AMINO MIX compound at four concentrations (0, 1, 2, 3) g l-1 . It was sprayed at a rate of three sprays between one spray and another two weeks. The study results can be summarized as follows: Ferti mar spraying treatments positively affected most indicators of citrus seedlings' vegetative growth. The spraying treatment with a concentration of 1.5 ml l-1 significantly outperformed by registering the highest rate for seedling height, stem diameter, number of branches, number of leaves and leaf area was 95.33 cm, 8.98 mm, 16.04 branch seedling-1 , 44.23 leaves seedling-1 , and 16.42 cm2 , respectively.Spraying treatments by Growx amino mix showed a positive effect on most of the vegetative growth indicators of citrus seedlings. The spraying treatment with a concentration of 3 g l-1 was superior by recording the highest rate for seedling height, seedling diameter, number of branches, number of leaves, and leaf area, which amounted to 91.4 cm, 8.36 mm, 15.30 branch seedling-1 , 42.49 leaf seedling-1 , and 15.47 cm2 sequentially. The interaction treatments between the two factors of the study had a significant positive effect on most of the studied traits, and the interaction treatment between the concentration of 1.5 ml l-1 of Fertimar and 3 g l-1Growx amino mix recorded the best results significantly for growth indicators.
Keywords
orange , seedling , Ferti , vegetative, traits.
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