Effect of budding autumn date, rootstock and cultivars on budtake and some growth characteristics of japanese plum prunus salicina

Abstract

This experiment was conducted during 2001-2002 in private nursery at AL-Egraa’t district, Baghdad to study the effect of budding date, root stocks and cultivars on success of budding and sum vegetative characteristics of plum on apricot and plum rootstocks. A factorial experiment (224) with Randomized Complete Block design (RCBD) with three replicate and 10 plants per replicate were used in this study.The treatments used were two budding dates Aug. 20th and sept. 20th, two rootstocks Apricote and marianna plum seedlings. and four plum cultivars Beauty, Alo no.1, Bathinjani and Golden japanese and the means was tested by LSD at p≤ 0.05 , the results showed that the date of Sept 20th and marianna rootstock given the best result in bud takes,height plant,number of leaves and leaf area , on the other hand beauty give bud take and leaf area upper than the others whereas bathenjani significant by height of plant and gold japans was significant by number of leaves .