EFFECT OF TWO DIFFERENT PEACH CULTIVARS AND BUDDING DATES ON SWAT LOCAL PEACH ROOTSTOCK

Abstract

The experiment was carried out at Nuclear Institute for Food and Agriculture Peshawar (NIFA) to investigate the effect of different budding times of peach varieties i.e., Early Grand & Florida King as a scion cultivar on peach rootstock. Peach seedlings were budded at 10 days interval i.e., 20 May, 30 May, 10 June, 20 June, 30 June and 10 July. The data showed that the Early Grand variety budded on peach rootstock at 30 May showed significant results on plant height (134 cm), number of branches (16.33), shoot diameter (13.02 cm) and number of leaves (302.99), while on 10 June and 20 May found better sprouting (35.19) and bud success percentage (69.30%). Florida King variety has a significant effect on plant height (101.22 cm), shoot diameter (8.71 cm), number of leaves (127.78) and bud success percentage (50.67%) on 20 June, followed by number of branches (5.33) and days to sprouting (40.10) showed on 30 May respectively. The minimum result showed on 10 July in both varieties Early Grand and Florida King which was budded on peach rootstock. Overall, the results showed that inserting of Early Grand buds on 30 May showed best result on peach rootstock.