Study of various plant growth enhancers on propagation in betel leaf cutting (Piper beetle L.)

The present experiment was conducted during the 2019–20 Rabi season at Pt. Kishori Lal Shukla College of Horticulture & Research Station Rajnandgaon (C.G.).The experiment was laid out in CRD (Completely Randomized Design) under shade net conditions with three replication, each replication consisted of 10 treatments. { T1 (IBA 500 mg/lit), T2 (IBA 750 mg/lit), T3 (IAA 500 mg/lit), T4 (IAA 750 mg/lit), T5 (NAA 500 mg/lit), T6 (NAA 750 mg/lit), T7 (Moringa leaf extract 30 ml/lit), T8 (IBA 1.5 mg + kinetin 2.0 mg/lit), T9 (IBA 2 mg + Kinetin 3.0 mg/lit), T10 Control (without plant growth enhancer)}. The result indicated that T1 (IBA 500 mg/lit) was superior for most of the characters under study i.e. Days taken for sprouting (12.33 days), Sprouting Percentage (80%), Number of leaves per cutting (13.77), Average shoot length per cutting (38.36cm), Number of primary roots (14.99), Fresh shoot weight (8.97g), Dry shoot weight (3.68g) and Survival percentage (83.33%).