Abstract

Peach a nutritious temperate fruit requires suitable rooting media for propagation of peach through cuttings. Hence, a research study was conducted during 2019-20 at Khalsa College, Amritsar, India to study the effect of different rooting media on success of cuttings in peach cv. Shan-i-Punjab. During the study eight different treatments comprising of rooting media (sand, cocopeat, vermiculite, perlite, cocopeat + soil, vermiculite + soil (1:1), perlite + soil (1:1) and soil-control) were undertaken in Randomised Block Design replicated thrice. The results of the study indicated that cocopeat + soil (1:1) proved to be the best in terms of minimum days to first sprouting (13.60 days), maximum sprouting (74.53%), survival (83.03%), root number/cutting (12.88), root length (7.93 cm), fresh weight of root (0.89 g), dry weight of root (0.57 g), number of leaves (38.78) and leaf area (69.56 cm2) after 90 days of planting. The rooting media of cocopeat mixed with soil can be used as an appropriate medium for development and survival of the planted peach cuttings.