Effect of Soil Drenching and Foliar Application of Biostimulants on Growth and Yield of Curry Leaf (Murraya koenigii Spreng.)

Author: M. Chinnapappa*, A. Ramar, S. Manickam, S. Velmurugan, V. Ravichandran and K. Bhuvaneswari

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Abstract

A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of soil drenching and foliar application of different biostimulants on growth and yield of curry leaf (Murraya koenigii Spreng.) at Karamadai, Coimbatore during 2019 to 2021. This study was laid out in factorial randomised block design with control, factor 1 as soil drenching (D1- humic acid @ 5 ml/plant and D2- jeevamrutham @ 50 ml/plant), factor 2 as foliar spray of different biostimulants (S1- Effective microorganism culture @ 2 %, S2-Egg amino acid @ 1%, S3-Panchagavya @ 3%, S4-Sea weed extract @ 2% and S5- Pink Pigmented Facultative Methylotrops (PPFM) @ 1 % and control as farmer practices. The experimental results revealed significantly higher plant height (129.30 cm), number of secondary branches (18.00), number of compound leaves (52.27), number of leaves per rachis (18.30) and fresh leaf yield (845.57 g/ plant) were observed in Humic acid + EM culture (D1S1). The rachis length (27.50 cm), leaf let length (7.65 cm) and leaf

Keywords

Curry leaf, Soil drenching, Foliar spray, Biostimulants, EM culture, Yield.