Author(s):

D Archana, P Prasanth, Natarajan Seenivasan and Veena Joshi

Abstract: Twelve varieties of Chrysanthemum, namely Bidhan Madhuri, Bidhan Purna, HYDC-2, HYDC-4, HYDC-8, Plants and Seeds Choice, Red Gold, Red Stone, Shova, Silper White, Silper Yellow, Bidhan Swapna were evaluated with the aim to identify suitable cultivar for pot mum under Hyderabad conditions during the year 2018-2019 at Floricultural Research Station, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad. The results revealed that in the flowering parameters, the cultivars Red Gold (41.60 days) recorded minimum days for visible flower bud formation whereas, cultivar Silper White (91.00 days) was late to form flower buds. Number of days taken for 50 percent flowering varied from 81.40 days (Red Gold) to 97.8 days (Bidhan Madhuri). Among all cultivars the number of days from planting to flowering was earlier in Bidhan Purna (92.47 days) and number of flowers per plant ranged from Silper White (6.33) to HYDC-2 (23.07). Cultivars HYDC-2 (23.07), HYDC-4 (20.27), Red Stone (19.25), Bidhan Madhuri (17.87) and Red Gold (16.27) recorded appreciable number of flowers.

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