EFFECT OF DIFFERENT GROWING MEDIA ON SHOOT DEVELOPMENT OF DRAGON FRUIT CUTTINGS (HYLOCEREUS UNDATUS L. HAWORTH BRITTON & ROSE)

The present investigation was carried out on the effect of different growing media on shoot development of dragon fruit cutting (Hylocereus undatus L.) and was conducted in the polyhouse at the Department of Horticulture, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Vidya Vihar Rae Bareli Road, Lucknow U.P. (India) during the years 2022-23.The experiment was laid out in a randomized block design (RBD) for shoot development parameters of dragon fruit cuttings with one factor and three replications under polyhouse.Treatment combination has shown the significant difference.Among the different treatment combinations used media containing soil, sand, FYM, vermiculite, perlite, soil+ sand+ FYM, soil+ sand+ vermiculite, soil+ vermiculite + perlite enriched with different growing media combination has recorded minimum days taken to sprout initiation, number of sprouts per cutting, shoot length, shoot fresh weight, shoot dry weight, survivance percent per cutting, root to shoot ratio.