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MINI CLONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR TREE CROPS

Clonal garden
Clonal Garden establishment

The clonal garden can be established at a size of 10 x 1 x 0.6 m or 5 x 1 x 0.6 m or 3 x 1x 0.6m using cement trough or GI trough.
 The bed should be filled with  20 mm stones upto 25 cm and over which finely sewed river sand can be filled.
The trough should have facility for drainage.
The raised beds can be covered with 100 micron UV stabilized polyethylene film on the top and covered with insect proof mesh to protect the plants and to ensure its freeness from pest and diseases.
Continuous irrigation
Clonal Management

The plants are allowed to grow upto 60 days by applying the required nutrient composition. After 60 days the plants are pruned at required size preferably at half of the plant to induce new shoots. With continuous irrigation and nutrient management the cuttings will start producing shoots from 8-10 days onwards and after 15-20 days the cuttings can be collected and treated with 2% carbendazim solution.

Clonal Treatment

The newly induced shoots were separated from the plants and are treated with or without 1500 ppm IBA (liquid formulation) and planted in 90 cc root trainers filled with decomposed coir pith. The rooting started in 15 days and 25 days old rooted plants are ready for hardening.

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