STUDIES ON EFFECT OF DENSITY PRUNING AND APPLICATION OF PACLOBUTRAZOL ON VEGETATIVE GROWTH AND FLOWERING OF MANGO (MANGIFERA INDICA L.) CV. KESAR

The experiment was carried out on eight-year-old mango orchard at the Fruit Research Station in Aurangabad (MH) during the 2023-2024 period on Kesar mango in a factorial randomized block design with three replications and nine treatment combinations.The experiment was framed to study the effect of density pruning and paclobutrazol on vegetative growth and flowering of Kesar mango.The experiment was laid out in FRBD (Factorial Randomized Block Design) with two factors, factor A consist of 3 levels of density pruning i.e., P 1 : 10% pruning, P 2 : 20% pruning and P 3 : 30% pruning and factor B consist of different paclobutrazol dose i.e., T 1 : 2ml pp 333 , T 2 : 2.5ml pp 333 and T 3 : 3ml pp 333 applied at canopy diameter of tree with three replications.The study found that interaction effect of P 2 T 2 (20% pruning + 2.5 ml of pp 333 ) had recorded minimum vegetative growth viz.plant height, plant girth, plant spread, plant volume and number of leaves of leaves per shoot and interaction effect of P 1 T 3 (10% pruning + 3 ml of pp 333 ) had recorded early flower initiation and earliest 50% & 100% flowering, reduces length of panicle.While interaction effect of P 1 T 2 (10% pruning + 2.5ml of pp 333 ) had recorded maximum total number of flowers, male and hermaphrodite flowers.