• Ajish Muraleedharan
• P. Karuppaiah
• S. Ramesh kumar

Anthuriums are tropical plants belongs to the family Araceae are slow growing perennials that requires shady humid condition are grown for their showy cut flowers and attractive foliage. Anthurium plants require good growing medium with good physical and chemical conditions for their proper growth and development. Research work was carried out to find out the best suited growing media for the production of Anthurium plants (Anthurium andreanum) cv. Tropical. The experiment was conducted with different growing media in a combination of treatments viz. Coir pith, coconut husk, brick pieces, leaf mould, coir pith + coconut husk, coir pith + brick pieces, coconut husk + brick pieces, coconut husk + FYM, leaf mould + FYM and control (soil media). All the treatments were grown under uniform shade level of 75% by using shade nets. The treatments were replicated thrice. Among the different treatments, growing media with coir pith + coconut husk envisaged maximum plant height, plant spread, number of flowers per plant, flower stalk length, spathe length and spathe breadth. Vase life and quality of flowers were also found improved in coir pith + coconut husk. Based on the performance of anthurium plants in the experiment it can be recommended that Anthurium andreanum cv. Tropical performed its best under the growing media combination of coir pith + coconut husk at 1:1 ratio. .

Growing media, Anthurium, Coirpith

"GROWTH RESPONSES OF ANTHURIUM PLANTS TO DIFFERENT GROWING MEDIA ON THE GROWTH AND FLOWERING ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 9, page no.862-866, September 2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1709127.pdf

"GROWTH RESPONSES OF ANTHURIUM PLANTS TO DIFFERENT GROWING MEDIA ON THE GROWTH AND FLOWERING ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 9, page no. pp862-866, September 2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1709127.pdf