Rooting of stakes Celtis triflora (Kl) Mig under different coverings.

Abstract

Rooting stakes is one of the most modern techniques used for vegetative propagation, and it is also used to work with seeds production on a large scale for some species. Celtis triflora (Kl) Mig is known as “juazeiro de bode” in the northeast area of Brazil and among the semi-arid in Paraiba. It has great forage potential in caprine animals. A lot of different Coverings were tested to determine which one was the best strategy to be used for Celtis triflora (Kl) Mig.: Control (covering absence), plastic and fabric-no-fabric (TNT). We used a completely randomized design with 3(three) treatments, and 9(nine) replicates. The same process was repeated nine times, six stakes each time, summarizing 162 stakes. After one hundred and ten days (110) we checked the number of rooted stakes and the ones that present primary roots, the dry matter weight of the stake, and also the length of the sprout, the number of leaves and sprout(primary and secondary). We used Student-Newman-Keuls test at 5%. Plastic covering was the best result. It showed a large number of primary sprouts and leaves. Covering with transparent plastic seemed to help better with the development of the aerial part of the stakes Celtis triflora (Kl), but the same wasn’t observed in the immigrant system.