Manisha Verma, L.N. Mahawer, Saddam Husain, H.L. Bairwa, Devendra Jain and Manisha Kumari
Abstract
Thirty- five intervarietal crosses of gladiolus were tested separately in RBD, each with 3 replication in the ACRIP Floriculture, Department of Horticulture, RCA, Horticulture farm Udaipur from 2019-20. The objective of the study was to find the potentially of seed set in different crosses. Under intervarietal crosses, high capsule set per spike resulted in âH11 - â GS-2 à â Arka Amar (5.42), H12 - â GS-2à â Priscella (5.35), H1 - â Anglia à â Priscella (5.16), H13 - â GS-2 à â Punjab Beauty (5.14), H9 - â Chandanià â Punjab Beauty (5.10), H24- â Pusa Gunjan à â Arka Kesar (5.10) and H25 - â Pusa Gunjan à â Arka Pratham (5.00) per spike., but âH3 - â Arka Amar à â Arka Kesar (1.34), H18 - â Punjab Beauty à â GS-2 (1.40) and H33 - â Pusa Subhamà â Nathan Red (1.50) produced the lowest capsule set per spike. âH13 - â GS-2 à â Punjab Beautyâ resulted the highest weight of capsule per spike (70.22 g) followed by âH11 - â GS-2 à â Arka Amarâ (61.75g). While the lowest in cross âH3 - â Chandani à â Arka Amarâ (13.91 g). âH25 â Pusa Gunjan à â Arka Prathamâ produced maximum number of seed per capsule (55.00) followed by âH11 - â GS-2 à â Arka Amarâ (54.00). While âH3 - â Arka Amar à â Arka Kesarâ the poor seed setting (9.00). The maximum number of seed set per spike in âH11 - â GS-2 à â Arka Amarâ (298.10) followed by the cross H24 -â Pusa Gunjan à â Arka Kesar (239.70), whereas lowest number of seed set per spike in âH3 - â Arka Amar à â Arka Kesarâ (12.06). âH25 - â Pusa Gunjan à â Arka Prathamâ gave highest seed weight per capsule (2.10 g), while lowest in âH30 â Pusa Kiran à â Punjab Beauty (0.30)â. âH25 - â Pusa Gunjan à â Arka Prathamâ produced highest seed weight per spike (10.6 g) followed by âH11 - â GS-2 à â Arka Amarâ (8.8 g) and âH18 -â Punjab Beauty à â GS-2â produced lowest seed weight per spike (0.9 g)