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Influence of Compost Fertilization and Pinching Number on Growth and Flowering of Cineraria Plant

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Horticulture

Abstract

The present work was undertaken at the Nursery of Floriculture Plants, Faculty of Agriculture, Minia University, 
through the two growing seasons of 2021/2022 and 2022/2023, to evaluate the impact of compost fertilization 
levels (0, 50, 75 and 100 g/pot) and pinching treatments (no pinching, pinched once, - twice and - thrice), moreover, their interaction on vegetative growth, flowering parameters and some chemical composition of Cineraria hybrida plant.
All compost levels significantly enhanced vegetative growth traits (plant height, stem diameter, number of branches and 
leaves/plant, leaf area and plant aerial parts dry weights), flowering traits (days taken to first flowering, number of 
flowers/plant, diameter and area of floral disc, flowering fresh weight and flowering duration) and chemical constituents 
[photosynthetic pigments (mg/g) and NPK (%)] comparing with control. In all cases, 100 g/pot compost was more 
effective in this concern.
Pinching treatments significantly decreased plant height, in the same time, significantly increased the other abovementioned characters. In most cases, the treatment of pinching plants twice was the best treatment in this concern.
The best interaction treatment was supplying plants with 100 g/pot compost plus pinched plants twice for good appearance of cineraria plant.

DOI

10.21608/sjas.2023.212815.1309

Keywords

compost, pinching, Cineraria

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Abdou

MiddleName

A.H.

Affiliation

prof. of Ornamental plants, Hort. Department, Fac. of Agric., Minia Univ., Egypt.

Email

mahmoud@yahoo.com

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First Name

Amna

Last Name

Fouad

MiddleName

H.A

Affiliation

Ornamental plants, Hort. Department, Fac. of Agric., Minia Univ., Egypt.

Email

amna@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Hassan

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Ornamental plants, Hort. Department, Fac. of Agric., Minia Univ., Egypt.

Email

agribsu2018@gmail.com

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Volume

5

Article Issue

2

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41562

Issue Date

2023-06-01

Receive Date

2023-05-23

Publish Date

2023-06-01

Page Start

17

Page End

30

Print ISSN

2535-1796

Online ISSN

2535-180X

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916

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Publication Title

Scientific Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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Influence of Compost Fertilization and Pinching Number on Growth and Flowering of Cineraria Plant

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30 Dec 2024