Vegetative Propagation of Four Important Timber Yielding Species of Kashmir

Abstract

Present investigation has concentrated upon the vegetative propagation of 10-year old deodar, blue pine, Himalayan cypress and yew. Stem cuttings of deodar gives maximum rooting 62.13% under the treatment IBA 4000ppm + NAA 4000ppm with 11.3 number of roots/cutting. Yew gives 85% rooting when treated with NAA 3000ppm + IBA 2000ppm with 12.40 number of roots/ cutting. 90% rooting was recorded in Himalayan cypress under the treatment of IBA 3000ppm with 8.7 roots/cutting. In case of blue pine 88% rooting was observed when cuttings were treated with IBA 2000ppm + NAA 2000ppm and cuttings were having 13.64 roots/cutting. Results of present investigation envisage that this methodology can be easily be adopted in Forest nurseries by having a mist chamber facility for producing quality planting material of these important timber species of J&K.