Vol. 8, Issue 8, Part J (2024)

Abstract: An experiment on “Influence of different growing condition with media on growth, flowering and yield of Asiatic lilium” was conducted during the year 2020-21 and 2021-22 at ornamental flower nursery, College of Horticulture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat. The Experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Black Design (Factorial) with three repetition and sixteen treatment combinations comprising of four different growing condition (G₁- 75% Green colour shade net, G₂- 75% White colour shade net, G₃- 75% Black colour shade net and G₄- Open condition) and four different media combinations [(M₁- Soil: Cocopeat: Vermiculite (5:3:2), M₂- Soil: Sand: FYM (4:3:3), M₃-Cocopeat: Soil: Sand (5:3:2), M₄- Cocopeat: Vermiculite: Perlite (7:2:1). Growing of Asiatic Lilium in G₃- 75% black colour shade net recorded minimum number of days taken to sprouting of bulb, minimum number of days taken to first bud appearance, number of days taken to first flower opening while, the maximum number of flower per plant were observed in G₁-75% green colour shade net. Whereas, the maximum diameter of flower and number of daughter bulb were recorded with the treatment of G₄- Open condition. In case of the growing media combination the higher number of bulb were observed with the treatment combination. M₄- Cocopeat: Vermiculite: Perlite (7:2:1).Whereas, the diameter of bulb were observed with the treatment M₁- soil: cocopeat: vermiculite (5:3:2 v/v). Interaction effect of growing condition and different growing media with respect to growth parameter like number of days taken to sprouting, flowering parameters like number of days taken to first bud appearance, days taken to first flower opening and the yield parameter like number of daughter bulb was remained non-significant. Growing of Asiatic lilium with the treatment combination of G₃M₄- 75% Black colour shade net and media combination of Cocopeat: Vermiculite: Perlite (7:2:1 v/v) recorded maximum number of flower per plant. While the diameter of bulb was recorded maximum with the treatment combination G₄M₁ [open condition +Soil: Cocopeat: Vermiculite (5:3:2).