Response of Rose (Rosa indica L.) Cuttings in Different Growing Media

Abstract

Horticulture Garden Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam conducted research during 2022–23 to evaluate the response of rose cuttings (Rosa indica L.) to various growing media. In this experiment, a complete randomized design was used with three replications. There was no difference in size between the cuttings of red roses and pink roses when they were used. Each treatment combination had a different growing medium. There are six general growing media: GM1 = Soil, GM2 = Peat Moss, GM3 = Soil + Peat Moss, GM4 = Silt + FYM, GM5 = Soil + FYM + Silt, and GM6 = Soil + FYM + Silt + Peat Moss. The present study yielded several significant results. These included the days to sprouting, the number of sprouting cuttings-1, the sprouting percentage, the number of branches cuttings-1, the number of leaves cuttings-1, the length of the leaf (cm), the length of the compound (cm), the stem diameter cutting-1 (cm), the survivability (%), and the mortality (%). The GM3=Soil + Peat Moss showed the highest results in terms of number of sprouting cuttings (2.07), sprouting (68.51%), branch cuttings (1.87), leaf cuttings (15.16), compound leaf length (13.91 cm), and survivability percentage (55.54%). GM2= Peat moss recorded the highest number of sprouting cuttings (1.72), sprouting (55.54%), branches cutting (1.65), leaves cutting (1.55), compound leaf length (12.20 cm), and survivability (49.29%). The pink rose exhibited a maximum number of sprouting cuttings (1.05), a maximum sprouting (70.36%), branch cuttings (1.92), leaf cuttings (14.55), leaf length (6.20 cm), compound leaf length (15.77 cm), stem diameters of cuttings (8.50 cm), survivability percentage (59.25%), and mortality rate (92.06%). Based on its growing medium, the pink rose grew and developed better than the red rose. The present study yielded statistically significant results for all parameters in the growing media, GM3 = soil + peat moss.