Effect of season on re-bagging on growth and survival of cashew grafts

In experiment survival, morphological attributes was observed periodically. The survival, morphological parameters such as plant height (cm), girth of graft (mm), length of new sprout (cm), number of leaves, leaf area (cm2), absolute growth rate (cm/day), relative growth rate(cm/cm/day), root length (cm) and dry weight of root (g).In season of re-bagging, the maximum survival percentage was recorded in T10 (96.00%) i.e. September 2018 followed by T3 (94.66%) i.e. February 2018 whereas the maximum plant height percentage (39.14%) in T5 i.e. April 2018, girth of graft (10.59 mm) in T8 i.e. June 2018, new sprout height (27.30cm) in T4 i.e. March 2018. The number of leaves (30.33), leaf area (3766.7 cm2) highest relative growth rate (1.7429 cm/cm/day), highest absolute growth rate (0.2047 cm/day) and root length (49.00 cm) was observed in T3 i.e. February 2018. The treatment T10 i.e. September 2018 recorded maximum root dry weight (14.33g). September and February was ideal months for cashew grafts re-bagged in large sized poly bags.