Effect of Different Floral Preservatives on Vase Life of Marigold (Tagetes erecta L.)

Farmers have been growing marigold commercially but they are still lacking knowledge on procedure of postharvest handling flowers. This has created a huge problem for those farmers since cannot store their own produce longer period time thus facing problems in marketing. In order to inform the with best means preservation cut flowers so that could fetch good market price product. A lab experiment study “effect different floral preservatives vase life (Tagetes erecta L)” was conducted at Campus Live Sciences, Tulsipur, Dang factorial Completely Randomized Design. Altogether 9 treatments were used as: Distilled Water, Silver Nitrate (100 ppm), Malic Acid (2000 Citric Salicylic (1000 Gibberellic acid (50 Kinetin Naphthalene Acetic ppm) + (25 ppm). Results showed use affects parameters like flower diameter, weight, post-harvest life, blackening petals and sepals water uptake. It observed minimum change weight kinetin (19.39%), diameter gibberellic (4.18%), maximum (14.66 days), neck bending (33%), uptake (4.38%) growth hormones. From this we can conclude hormones (kinetin (50ppm) (50ppm)) suitable storage marigold.