Performance of different cultivars of chrysanthemum on growth and flowering

The present experiment entitled “Performance of different cultivars of chrysanthemum on growth and flowering” was conducted during Rabi season in year 2023 at Pt. K.L.S. College of Horticulture & Research Station, Rajnandgaon (C.G.). The experiment was laid out in RBD (Randomized Block Design) with eight treatments and three replications. The treatment consists of T1 (Pompon), T2 (Sonar Bangla), T3 (Snow Ball), T4 (Pink Cloud), T5 (S.L. (Andra Reffad)), T6 (Gengis khan), T7 (Miss India) and T8 (Star yellow). The results showed that the Snow Ball treatment (T3) performed the best in terms of plant height (63.90 cm), number of leaves per plant (92.47), leaf length (6.34 cm), stem diameter (2.50 cm), plant spread (E-W) (25.16 cm), plant spread (N-S) (25.22 cm), number of primary branches (17.00), number of secondary branches (22.93), days to first flower bud initiation (61.93 days), days to fully opened flower from bud emergence (16.86 days), flower diameter (7.28 cm), fresh flower weight (15.77 g) and dry flower weight (6.80 g).