Vol. 6 No. 1 (2003)

Articles

Effect of seed clove size and spacing on growth performance of garlic

Published 2003-12-29

  • M. Mosaddek Hossain
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  • M. Ashrafuzzaman
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  • M. Shahidul Hoque
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  • M. A. Hoquet

M. Mosaddek Hossain
Department of Crop Botany, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

M. Ashrafuzzaman
Department of Crop Botany, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

M. Shahidul Hoque
Department of Crop Botany, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

M. A. Hoquet
Department of Soil Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

Abstract

An experiment was conducted using different size of seed clove and different spacing to investigate their effect on the growth performance of garlic (Allium sativum). The three different clove sizes were large, medium and small planted in four spacings of 25 x 20 cm, 20 x 20 cm, 20 x 15 cm and 20 x 10 cm. Large sized clove produced the tallest plants, longest root, maximum number of leaves/plant and stem length and total dry matter. Plant spacing of 25 x 20 cm gave longest root, maximum leaf number per plant and maximum leaf dry matter while the spacing of 20 x 20 cm gave maximum plant height and root dry matter. Maximum pseudostem length was found from the closest plant spacing of 20 x 10 cm. This study demonstrates that clove site and spacing greatly influence growth performance of garlic. Further studies are proposed to establish optimum clove sites and plant densities that could be recommended to farmers

Keywords

Allium Sativum, Dry matter, garlic growth, plant density

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