Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
Md. Azhar Bintory, Sumangala HP, Sateesh R Patil, Balaji S Kulkarni, Aswath C, Rupa TR, Selvakumar G, Laxman RH and Pavan Kumar P

Abstract:
The experimental study was carried out to understand the effect of interaction between different plant media and different ornamental plant species over plant qualitative growth parameters. From whole experiment it resulted that the S₁ (Chlorophytum comosum), S₅ (Philodendron hederaceum ‘Aureum’), S₉ (Sansevieria trifasciata 'Hahnii'), S₁₀ (Peperomia obtusifolia ‘Variegata) were with highest growth rate, plant coverage rate and overall plant quality and the Species like S₄ (Haworthia glabrata), S₆ (Crasulla ovata) and S₈ (Philodendron ‘Xanadu’) were recorded lowest growth rate, plant coverage rate. The Plant media like M₁ (Commercial mix) recorder lowest qualitative growth performance. Whereas, M₃ (Arka fermented Cocopeat+ LECA (3:1)) resulted with highest performance for growth rate, plant coverage rate and overall plant quality. The interaction effect showed a significant difference in the growth rate, plant coverage rate and overall plant quality. The obtained data can be utilized for further studies for betterment of vertical gardening.