AGRILCULTURE_NERSURY PLANT PROPAGATION AND NURSERY MANAGMENT

Aim – Learning various nursery operations like preparation of beds, filling of polythene bags, pots, shifting of plants, watering plants etc.

Requirements - Pick axe, spade, soil, compost, polythene bags, other pots for growing plants, plants grown in beds.

Procedure –

1)     Do different nursery activities one by one.

2)     First of all prepare nursery beds and raised bed. Dug the soil, crush the clods and prepare a raised bed of size 2m X 1m X 15cm. Also prepare a nursery bed of size 2m X 1m and depth 15 to 30 cm.

3)     Sow the seeds on raised beds for growing seedling.

4)     Place the plants grown in polythene bags in beds prepared.

5)     Ensure that the bags have three to four holes for drainage. Make a mixture of soil (1part) + fine sand (1 part) + well decomposed compost (1 part). Fill the polythene bags with this mixture keeping 2 inch free space.

6)     Fill different pots with different mixture of soil and compost.

7)     Transplant the seedlings grown in beds in the polythene bags.

8)     Water the nursery plants carefully and regularly. 

Observation –

Record the following observations

1)     Size of the beds and number: ______________

2)     Number of seeds sown: _________________

3)     Size of polythene bags: _________________

4)     Age of seedlings transplanted: ___________________

5)     Height of seedlings: _____________________

6)     Number of leaves on the seedling: ___________________

7)     Size of pots used: ______________

8)     Types of soil mixture use with the proportions of material used: _____________________________________________________________

Result - All the nursery operations if done timely and correctly the growth and quality of seedlings found excellent

 Conclusion –

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            Different nursery activities are carried out regularly in the nurseries. For successful nursery business, practicing these operations timely is important. Learning these operations will help the students in establishing a good nursery.

Productive Task 2:  Practicing plant propagation operations

Aim – Learning different ways of propagation methods will help in understanding the multiplication methods of different plants.

Requirements - Secateurs, pick axe, pots, polythene bag, polythene strip and keradix powder.

Procedure –

A) Propagation through cutting

1) Leaf cutting – Marginal buds, Use of petiole and use of mid rib.

1)     Select mature leaf and put it in soil covering only margins of the leaf with soil (Bryophyllum)

2)     Cut the petiole of leaf along with leaf blade. Insert the petiole in soil keeping the blade exposed. (Peperomia)

3)     Select a just mature leaf. Give cut with sharp knife at the junction of mid nib. Place the entire leaf in soil in such a way that the noted portion will be in contact with soil.

Observations –

Sr. No.	Name of cutting	Date of planting	Date of rooting	Time required for rooting