Response of Time and Severity of Pruning on Vegetative and Reproductive Characteristics of Ber cv. BAU Kul
Soustav Datta
Department of Fruit Science, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur-741252, West Bengal, India.
Niladri Dutta
Department of Fruit Science, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur-741252, West Bengal, India.
Susmita Dey
Faculty of Agriculture, JIS University, Agarpara, Kolkata 700109, India.
Chinmoy Mandal
Department of Pomology and Post Harvest Technology, Faculty of Horticulture, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India.
Ritwika Sen
Department of Fruit Science, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur-741252, West Bengal, India.
Sarthak Bhattacharya
Department of Horticulture, School of Agriculture and Allied Sciences, The Neotia University, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India.
Pallab Datta
Department of Fruit Science, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur-741252, West Bengal, India.
T.P. Rathour *
Department of Fruit Science, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur-741252, West Bengal, India.
Deepa Lal
ACTO (SMS) Horticulture, ICAR Central Institute for Cotton Research KVK Nagpur, Maharashtra 441108, India.
Lipsa Prit Bhusan
Department of Fruit Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
An investigation was undertaken at Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya’s Horticultural Research Station, West Bengal during 2019-20 to observe the impact of time as well as severity of pruning on plant growth, flowering and fruiting of ber cv. BAU kul. The experiment consisted of eight treatments and three replications; heading back on 1stweek of March at 0.5m height as well as at 1.0m height, heading back on 3rdweek of March at 0.5m height as well as at 1.0 m height, heading back on 1stweek of April at 0.5m height as well as at 1.0m height, heading back on 3rdweek of April at 0.5m height as well as at 1.0m height. Pruning in April both at 0.5m and 1.0 m resulted higher fruit yield, shoot length, canopy spread than heading back at March which concluded that heading back done in April both at 0.5m and 1.0m height in ber proved superior.
Keywords: BAU Kul, flowering & fruiting, plant growth characters, pruning