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Effective use
of vegetative material in fig (Ficus carica L.)
nursery plant production
Oguz Dolgun1* and Faik
Ekmel Tekintas2
1Adnan
Menderes University, Sultanhisar Vocational College,
Sultanhisar, Aydin, Turkey.
2Adnan
Menderes University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of
Horticulture, Kocarli, Aydin, Turkey.
*Corresponding author.
E-mail:
oguzdolgun@yahoo.com or
odolgun@adu.edu.tr .Tel.: +90 256 3512772
Accepted 9 July, 2009 |
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The aim
of this study is to propagate fig nursery plants with bud
cuttings in relation to use vegetative material more
effectively. Well grown and lignified one-year-old shoots
with 15-25 cm length and two years old branches having a
considerably short one-year-old shoot on its tip were cut
into pieces in 5-8 cm length which have at least one bud.
Cuttings were classified as tip (1)(≤0.9 cm), middle
(2)(9.1-1.1 cm) and bottom (3)(≥1.3 cm) bud cuttings of
year-old shoot and tip (4)(≤1. cm), middle (5)(1.1-1.3 cm)
and bottom (6)( ≥1.6 cm) bud
cuttings of two-years-old or older branches. Cuttings were
grouped as the cuttings will be rooted in mist unit (A) and
directly planted in production beds prepared in field (B).
Data obtained in the research evidence that cuttings
prepared from different parts of the one or two
years-old-shoots and branches were rooted in high ratios in
mist unit in perlite. The highest rooting ratio obtained
from tip bud cuttings of one-year-old shoots which rooted in
mist unit. Even though cutting types which rooted in mist
unit were included in different groups in statistical
meaning, their numerical values are so close to each other
and they showed a distinctively high level of rooting
compare to cutting types planted in the field. Results
showed that fig nursery plants can be produced successfuly
by rooting of bud cuttings of one and two year old branches
in mist unit and then growing in bags. Bud cuttings planted
in the field dried in field conditions.
Key
words:
Fig, Ficus carica, bud cuttings, propagation, rooting.
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