Nursery fertilizer

Plant height (cm)

Leaf number/plant

Tiller number/plant

Shoot dry matter (mg/plant)

Root dry matter

(mg/plant)

N (%)

P (%)

K (%)

At 4 WAS

NF0

36

3.3

1

102

33

1.32

0.15

1.68

NF1

39

4.4

1

106

53

1.43

0.35

2.53

NF2

54

4.7

1

254

61

1.54

0.37

2.66

LSD

3^**

0.4^**

ns

18^**

6^**

ns

0.05^**

0.38^**

At 6 WAS

NF0

46

3.8

1

189

75

0.73

0.12

1.53

NF1

52

5.0

1

273

100

0.91

0.27

1.97

NF2

82

5.7

1

497

184

0.96

0.30

2.06

LSD:

8^**

0.8^**

ns

25^**

16^**

0.11^**

0.04^**

0.12^**

At 9 WAS

NF0

51

4.1

1.8

1519

942

0.58

0.11

1.37

NF1

64

5.4

3.2

2258

1253

0.85

0.26

1.46

NF2

90

5.5

4.7

3961

2979

0.86

0.30

1.60

LSD:

18^**

0.6^**

1.3^**

41^**

23^**

0.18^*

0.07^*

ns