1. The document summarizes the hands-on training activities carried out by horticulture students on nursery management techniques over several dates. 2. The activities included re-potting ornamental plants, planting and maintaining forestry species, cleaning the nursery, identifying plant species, pruning, sowing cashew seeds, preparing hardwood, semi-hardwood and softwood cuttings, maintaining the lawn, weeding, watering, and conducting grafting and air layering. 3. Through these activities, the students gained practical exposure in various propagation techniques and nursery management operations.

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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES,BENGALURU
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, HASSAN
Report on
NURSERY MANAGEMENT OF
HORTICULTURAL CROPS HRT 403 (0+5)
DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, HASSAN

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Apart from our effort, the success of the hands on training on nursery
management of horticultural crops depends largely on the encouragement and
guidance of our lecturers. We take the opportunity to express our profuse
gratitude to our course teacher Dr. Nataraja.A, HOD, Dept. of horticulture, college
of agriculture, Hassan for the guidance.
We are also indebted to Mrs. Rekha.B, Ms. Lavanya .K .S for dedicating their
valuable time and for extending their friendly hands towards us.
We are also thankful to Dr. Devkumar .N, Dean, College of Agriculture Hassan, as
for providing an opportunity to get practically expose to this HOT programme.
We also thank Mr. Kumar, Mr. Sanath, for their assistance throughout the HOT.
We are glad that all our teammates worked together during the conduct of HOT so
that it has completed successfully.
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LIST OF HORTICULTURE HOT STUDENTS 2018-19
SL.NO
NAME OF THE
STUDENTS ID NO
1
Anaswara Ann Samuel ALH5008
2 Basavaraj Gurappa
Kamaldinni
ALH5013
3
Bhoomika T
ALH5014
4
Chava Jayashree
ALH5017
5
Harish J
ALH5021
6 Krishna Hanumantappa
Ovikoppad
ALH5030
7
Narmada M
ALH5041
8
Rajeshwari
ALH5050
9
S U Hemavathi
ALH5053
10 Sachin S
ALH5054
11
Sharmila
ALH5067
12
Shilpa S
ALH5069
13
Surya N
ALH5077
14
Sushma S P
ALH5078
15 T Dileep
ALH5079
16
Tanushree R
ALH5081
17
Thyagraj G P
ALH5086
18
Vishruth T M
ALH5088
Date of submission :
Course teacher : Dr. Nataraja. A
Department of horticulture
College of Agriculture, Hassan.

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Contents
Sl No. Topics Page No.
1 Introduction 5
NURSERY OPERATIONS 6-17
2 Re potting 6
3 Planting, Mulching and Irrigation 7
4 Nursery cleaning 8
5 Identification of nursery plants 10
6 Pruning 12
7 Sowing of cashew seeds 12
8 Hardwood and semi hardwood cuttings 13
9 Softwood cuttings 14
10 Lawn cleaning 15
11 Weeding and watering 16
12 Grafting and air layering 17
13 Conclusion 18

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Introduction
Nursery is a selected site having a well defined boundary, where fruit, flower vegetable or
forest plant species and their cultivars are maintained and multiplied using various sexual and
asexual propagation techniques. Nursery is consequently the basic need of horticulture. Plant
propagation techniques and practices is the core of horticulture nurseries. The planting
materials for horticultural plantations are raised from seeds and vegetative parts. Role of
Mother Plants is very primary and important. The fate of nursery depends on quality and
truthfulness of mother plants. A good nursery entrepreneur does not depend on others for
procurement of mother plants. Mother plants are required for both stock and scion. Mother
plants should be selected on the basis of its genetic traits and other factors like availability
and adaptation in the growing environment.
Nursery production acts as the backbone for the expansion of horticulture and Forestry.
Objectives of the nursery
 To raise healthy and disease free stocks.
 to distribute plant material in masses who have little knowledge about the techniques
of raising plants.
 to introduce exotic species.
 Planting of nursery grown plants is the surest method of artificially regenerating poor
and barren sites.
 Many plants do not respond well to direct seed sowing in the field. They are grown
well by transplanting the seedlings.

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1. Re-Potting
Date:-22-11-2018
Ornamental plants brought from Nandanam nursery (nearly 300) were re-potted
we mixed appropriate proportion of sand, soil and coir pith to which the plants
were planted. Later these pots were transferred to different blocks of our
college, guest house and library.

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2. Planting, Mulching and Irrigation
Date:-07-12-2018.
Planting of forestry species in and around the college premises, distributed
coconut husk mulch and even irrigated these saplings.

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3. Nursery cleaning
Date:-12-12-2018.
We students were engaged in cleaning nursery removed sick plants and
arranged plants in attractive manner.

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3. Identification of nursery plants
Date:-26-12-2018.
We tried to identify the species in our nursery. Nearly 60 species were identified
some among them are Acalypha, Hibiscus, Anthurium, Chlorophytum,
Euphorbia, Geranium, Syngonium, Aralia, Salvia, Cosmos,Ficus, Reo-
discolour, Dieffenbachia,Rose, Gerbera, Coleus, Mint, Snake plant,
Mother- in- law’s toung, Opuntia, Bougainvillaea,Zamia, Peperomia,
Gomphrena, Neerium, etc.

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4. Pruning
Date:-07-01-2019.
We were engaged in pruning of dead and diseased shoots of plants present in
our college premises.
5. Sowing of cashew seeds
Date:-09-01-2019.
Sowing of cashew seeds were undertaken. We mixed soil, sand and FYM in
appropriate proportionand filled into poly bags to where seeds were sown and
watered.

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7. Hard wood and semi-hard wood cuttings.
Date :30-01-2019
Sand, silt and FYM were sieved and mixed together to fill
100 poly bags/student.
Each student prepared 30 hard wood and semi-hard wood cuttings.
Date:06-02-2019.
Nearly 30 cuttings of different plants like Hibiscuss, Durantha, Pomegranate,
Amla, Rose, etc. were prepared by each student.

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8. Soft wood cuttings.
Date : 13-02-2019
Soft wood cuttings of Acalypha, Rosemerry, Kufia, Geranium, Euphorbia,
etc.(Nearly 40 cuttings per each student) were prepared.

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9. Lawn cleaning
Date:14-02-2019.
Students were engaged in cleaning and weeding operations in the lawn, pruned
Geranium, Euphorbia and even cleared weeds in the passage.

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9. Weeding and watering.
Date:19-02-2019.
In Horticulture nursery weed management is an important componentof plant
protection for improving the productionpotential of nursery. It includes
management of the weeds in such a way that the nursery sustains its production
potential without being harmed by the weeds.
We carried-out weeding and watering of cuttings and cashew seedlings.
Observations were made on germination percentage of planted cuttings.

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11. Grafting and Air- layering.
Date : 20-02-2019.
We visited horticulture orchard, where we carried out grafting in mango,
cashew. We had a good practical exposure where everyone carried-out air
layering in Gauva.

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CONCLUSION:
It is very good exposure to know many things regarding practical nursery management
techniques. We got to know about many species in our college campus, also different
propagation methods of those species. And we even got opportunity to carryout different
propagation techniques by ourselves. Enthusiastic team work helped in bringing out effective
outcome through HOT.