EFFECT OF BP-100 AND GROWTH REGULATORS ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF OKRA (ABELMOSCHUS ESCULENTUS L. MOENCH)Jassasvi Prashar, Sandeep Menon, Gurpreet Singh and Mohan Krishna DevapatniAbstract The field experiment was carried out during kharif season of 2022 to study the effect of growth regulators on growth and yield of okra. The experiment was planned using randomized block design with nine treatments and three replications comprising three levels of biopolymer BP-100 (2.5,5,10kg/acre) and two levels of growth regulators viz., GA3 (50,100 ppm) and NAA (50, 100 ppm) and one combination GA3 and NAA (50 ppm + 50 ppm) and Control. Results revealed that that the application of BP-100 (5 kg/acre) significantly enhanced morpho-physiological traits viz., plant height (103.90 cm), number of branches plant-1 (3.87), number of nodes plant-1 (21.94), number of leaves plant-1 (23.34), internodal length (7.27cm), days to first flowering (39.5), days to 50% flowering (44.93) and yield parameters viz., number of fruit plant-1 (9.72), fruit length (13.96 cm), fruit girth (1.67 cm), fresh fruit weight (14.03g), yield (41.55q/acre) are found to be effective compared to control and rest of the treatments. |