Performance of some gladiolus varieties under sub-humid conditions of Rajasthan Choudhary Mahesh1, Moond S. K., Kumari Anop1, Beniwal B. S.1 Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India(), (e-mail: balodamahesh@gmail.com) 1Department of Horticulture, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India Online published on 19 March, 2018. Abstract An experiment was carried out during winter season of 2008–09 at the Instructional Farm of Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar (Rajasthan) to evaluate the performance of 12 gladiolus cultivars for cut flower and corm production. The vegetative and flowering characters as well as corm and cormel characters showed significant differences amongst the studied cultivars. The minimum number of days required for corm sprouting (7.47 days) and days to slipping (59. 20) were recorded in ‘Chandani’. The highest plant height (154.33 cm), spike length (96.47 cm) and flowering duration (14.93 days) were recorded in ‘Sabnam’. The cultivar ‘Dhanvantari’ produced longest length of leaf (54.89 cm), while the maximum leaf width (3.75 cm), spike diameter (1.039 cm), floret-neck diameter (2.436 cm) and floret diameter (8.24 cm) were noted in ‘TS-14’. The maximum leaf area (155.94 cm2), rachis length (66.87 cm), florets per spike (18.47) and number of florets remaining open at time (8.67) were recorded in ‘Sancerre’. The maximum number of spikes (2.73) and corms (3.20) per plant were produced in ‘Punjab Dawn’. Performance of ‘Chandani’ was found to be the best under sub-humid conditions of Rajasthan on the basis of yield and economic parameters. Top Keywords Corm, Cut-flower, Gladiolus, Varietal performance. Top |