Effect of Number of Tillers Per Hill on Quality Production of Palmarosa (Cympopogon Martinii)

Abstract

A study was conducted to assess the role of number of tillers on quality production of palmarosa grass varieties. A field experiment consisting of two varieties (Wg-tejisar-I and Wg-tejisar-II) and four number of tillers (3, 5, 7 and 9) in RCBD with three replications. There were two harvesting time with in three months interval all parameters were taken during the course of field experiments. Even if no significant difference the results of the experiment study revealed that, the palmarosa variety Wg-tejisar-II performed better than the Wg-tejisar-I in respect of some growth and yield parameters. At the first cycle, the effects of planting 7 and 3 tillers on the two varieties have better plant height, number of leaves, number of tillers. Significantly maximum fresh biomass and oil yield were harvested by planting WG-Tejsar-II variety with seven tillers was 83.88 Qt/ha and 115.49 kg/ha which have no biomass difference with planting three number of tillers (70.52 Qt/ha) and (102.34 kg/ha) respectively. The heights oil content recorded at the plot which contain WG-Tejsar-II variety with planting three tillers (1.79 %) and next to that planting WG-Tejsar-II variety with nine number of tillers (1.55 %). The data was recorded six months after planting, the plant height, number of leaves and number of tillers were not affected by varying the level of tillers number but the value indicated that planting seven tillers for the two palmarosa varieties shows the better result relative to the rest of configured levels. The highest biomass was recorded by planting WG-Tejsar-II with 7 number of tillers (33.07 Qt/ha) next to planting WG-Tejsar-II with 3 number of tillers (49.59 Qt/ha). The analysis indicated that non-significant oil volume of WG-Tejsar-II at the second cycle of data collection was observed. In general, planting 3 tillers for WG-Tejsar-I and 7 tillers for WG-Tejsar-II variety at a time have an advantage to get a greater quality production of palmarosa.

Keywords: Cymbopogon martinii, tiller number, variety, biomass, oil content and essential oil and survival count.

DOI: 10.7176/JBAH/10-17-04

Publication date:September 30^th 2020