Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION

Citrus is a prized fruit in the Philippines and holds prominent position among all fruits in both areas plants production. It s useful both as a home produced sources of very important nutrients, and as a valuable cash crop. Well established trees grow satisfactory in favorable environment. Young trees die if neglected and mature trees grow and produced well only if cultivated carefully with proper management. The trees grow and produce fruit indefinitely. Citrus trees are extremely slow to commence fruit production. They have an undesirable growth habit, and in some instance, they produced fruit highly variable in quality. These and other advantages are avoided by the use of vegetative propagated plants; such plants are produced by budding vegetative material (the scion) from desirable variety and suitable rootstock. In some areas, farmers grow citrus in two types; one is from seed to fruit and second is propagated by budding. In propagated by seed to fruit, it takes a long time to bear fruit while if propagated by budding they bear fruit earlier.

Significance of the study This study will hopefully contribute to the bank of knowledge about plant propagation by budding. First, this study will help the community to know how to gro fast bearing fruit. The farmers, this study is important to them because they will know the best way to propagate citrus by budding method. The researcher, this study will provide the researcher opportunity to learn how to make a thesis proposal and to develop the skill in budding Lastly, in doing this study will help feature researcher because this would serve as references on review related literature for similar study

Objectives of the study The study will be conducted to determine the response of propagating budded citrus in pots on plots Specially, it aims to find out which among the two is best in terms of:
1. Average number of height of growing bud 2. Average number of leaves 3. Percentage of survival

Chapter 2 Review Related Literature

In doing such studies there should be a foundation to support the study. This chapter presents the review related study that can help to prove some instances in this study and also these serves as a basis in the development of the study. Budding involves the used of scion with only a single bud attached to a piece of bark and budding is the most common used technique for propagating new plants, but also used top work existing trees to a new variety by L.K Jackson The 1830 saw the beginning of citrus budding. Florida growers realized stocks of productive trees have known performance characteristics, and

budding create trees that are certified to be free of viral disease by J.E Ells and H.G Hughes Chip budding, this procedure is also to bud a number of woody plants including al citrus types, peaches, apples, plums, grapes, and others. Chip can be done any time the bark of rootstock is slipping, the bark separates easily from the underlying wood by J. Soule and F.P Lawrence Murray Gaskins says that Growing citrus in potted indoors means that plants can be sheltered from our less than perfect climate, however, ideal conditions are not always possible to achieve and this may result a range of cultivation problems According to M. Roll and C.R Wilson that potted citrus plant prefer bright light for best growth and fruiting, potted citrus require different kinds fertilizers. And base on eHow.com plots are one fastest growing segments of gardening.

Chapter 3 Research Methodology

Materials of the study The following materials used in the study were; cutter, polyethylene budding tape, citrus seedling in pots and on plots, organic and commercial fertilizers, shovel, bolo, string, measuring and recording devices.

Experimental Design

After the preparation of the field, the land was laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with two treatments replicated three times. The following treatments were: T1- in pots T2- on plots

Methods Site selection, cleaning and preparing the experimental area This is study was conducted in the Production area of agriculture at the back of the College of Agriculture Building An area of 2.5 by 15m at the research area was cleaned and elevated and it was divided in to two plots to one in pots and one for on plots. The plots were subdivided into three for its replication. Selection of budwood Bud stick were collected from a robust and disease free calamansi trees at the citrus area of CSU-SM

Preparing the plots and pots Organic fertilizer, carbonized rice hull (CRH), an garden soil were mixed following the ratio one part organic fertilizer, two parts of carbonized rice hull (CRH) and two parts of garden soil. The pp bags were filled with two kilogram of said soil media Planting of the stock seeds The seeds of four pieces fruits of native pomelo were collected. Two hundred sixty four seeds were selected and directly sown in pots and on plots. One hundred thirty two seeds were sown in pots one seed per pot and on plots also sown one seed per hill with the distance of 12 inches between hills and furrows.

Procedure in budding A chip budding is used; the chip bud was cut while holding the bud stick with the apical end toward the budder. A thin sliced of wood with the scion bud was removed making a smooth up ward cut about one-half inch long and just into the wood. A second cut was made at the top of the first cut, forming a notch. A chip was removed from a rootstock in a similar manner and matching on the both sides, then wrapped it was start below the bud with 3-4 turns, finishing with several turns above the bud. Next was lopping the rootstock

after the bud germinated and cutting the rootstock top was removed completely by making a slopping cut about 1cm above the ground

Care and maintenance on the experimental area Irrigation Irrigation and draining the area were done two times a day using the sprinkle Fertilization At the time of planting the organic fertilizer and complete fertilizer were basally applied. Foliar fertilizer was applied 14 days after transplanting with seven days interval and calcium nitrate was applied 16 days after transplanting. Pruning These were done before budding, the removing disease-attack, branches and leaves which are unproductive. Controlling pest and diseases Insect pest and diseases that effect the plants wre control im,midiately and spray with appropriate chemicals. Spraying was done every two weeks

Weeding was done by removing t5he weeds, which grew at the base of the plants. Thi was done two times a week.

Data Gathering The following arte data that were gathered from the ten sample plants an each plot for:
1. Height of growing bud 2. Number of leaves 3. Percentage of survival

No. of survival plants % survival -------------------------No. of plants observed

Bibliography

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Citrus propagation For Homeowners by L.K Jackson, University of Florida, institute of food and Agriculture Sciences (UF/IFAS), plant grafting, no. 7.223 by J.E ELLS and H.G HUGHES, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension. 1995-1999

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