Effect of Seed Treatments, Nursery Beds and Media on Mango Grafting

A potting medium is another important input that should have enough nutrients, good water-holding capacity and drainage to ensure healthy and uniform seedling production. Apart from the selection of proper media ingredients, it is also necessary to maintain the porosity of the potting mixture so that proper development of roots takes place (Shrivastava et al., 1998). Soil enriched with FYM exhibits positive effects on various growth characteristics like seed germination, seedling vigor index, shoot length, root length, plant fresh weight and plant dry weight. Sand is another primary potting media with high porosity, aeration and well water drainage capacity. Hence, in the present study combination of these growing media was undertaken to evaluate its effects on seed germination, seedling growth and success rate of grafts in mango.