General
Getting Started
Getting Started
Lecture - 1
Propagation : Need and Potentialities, Sexual and Asexual methods of propagation and their advantages and disadvantages
Lecture - 2
Seed Dormancy: Causes (Internal and external factors) and methods of breaking Dormancy
Lecture - 6
Physiological and Biochemical basis of Rooting
Lecture - 8
Methods of Vegetative Propagation: Budding techniques
Lecture - 9
Factors Influencing Rooting of cuttings and Layering
Lecture - 11
Propagation Structures: Mist Chamber, Humidifier, Green houses, Glass houses, Poly houses, cold frames and hot beds
Lecture - 12
Use of Growth regulators in propagation
Lecture - 13
Micro - Propagation and Hardening of plants in Nurseries
Lecture - 14
Techniques of propagation through specialized organs; Corms, Runner, Suckers etc.
Lecture - 15
Selection and Maintenance of mother trees, Collection of Scion wood sticks, Bud-wood certification and nursery registration Act
Lecture - 16
Nursery tools and implements
Practical Part
Practical - 1
Media for Propagation of Plants in Nursery beds and mist chambers
Practical - 2
Preparation of Nursery beds and sowing of Seeds
Practical - 3
Preparation and Application of plant growth regulator solutions for seed germination and vegetative propagation
Practical - 4
Use of Mist chamber for propagation and hardening of plants
Practical - 5
Seed treatments for breaking seed dormancy and inducing vigorous seedling growth
Practical - 7 & 8
Practicing different types of layering
Practical - 11& 12
Practicing different types of Budding
Practical - 13
Maintenance of Nursery Records
Practical - 14
To demonstrate application of nutrients and plant protection measures in fruit nursery
Practical - 15
Application of plant protection chemicals in the nursery
Practical - 16
Uprooting/Digging, Labeling and Packing of nursery plants