Response of guava (Psidium guajava L.) varieties to different time of softwood grafting

The present experiment was carried out during the year 2013–2014 at Department of Horticulture, Dr. Pan-jabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola (M.S.) India. The experiment was laid out in a Factorial Randomised Block Design, comprised of four different time of softwood grafting 1st forth night of January, 2nd forth night of January, 1st forth night of February, 2nd forth night of February and three guava varieties L-49, Lalit, Shweta with 12 treatment combinations replicated three times. The result indicated that amongst the four different time of grafting; 2nd forth night of February take minimum days for bud sprouting (14 days), also gave maximum percentage of graft take (98.33%), percentage of bud sprouting (98.33%) and final survival of graft (93.89%). Among the three different varieties taken as scion, the maximum percentage of bud sprouting (96.25%) and final survival of graft (93.34%) observed with the scion of cultivar Shweta.