Abstract

EFFECT OF INDOLE 3 BUTYRIC ACID ON ROOTING AND GROWTH OF BLACK PEPPER LATERAL CUTTINGS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BUSH PEPPER

Mustafaanand P. H.*

ABSTRACT

Black Gold or Black pepper highly used in traditional medicine. The cultivation and collection of pepper from this plant is a tedious one when the houses having only women. Moreover, maintaining of plants, harvesting of pepper, proper pruning, application of fertilizers etc. are very difficult. Here it comes the importance of bush pepper and it can easily be cultivated and maintained by kids or ladies or age old man and women or any layman without the help of skilled Farmers or workers. An attempt was made to produce Bush Pepper in garden pots by treating lateral cuttings of the pepper plant in different concentrations of the Indole 3 Butyric acid. At a concentration 5Mg/L. well rooted healthy plantlets were transferred to the garden pots. About 60% of lateral cuttings produced well developed roots and established in the field. The reduced or increased concentration of IBA showed remarkable decreese in the rooting and establishment.

Keywords: Piper nigrum, Bush pepper, Indole 3, Butyric Acid (IBA), Lateral cuttings.