Chrysanthemum Cutting Productivity and Rooting Ability Are Improved by Grafting

Table 2

The rooting characteristics of the non-grafted and grafted cuttings “Jinba”.

Batch	Treatment	Rooting formation days (d)	Maximum length (cm)	Mean length; (cm)	Mean diameter (mm)	Mean number	Mean dry matter (mg)
H1	Non-grafted	8	4.5	3.42±0.24a	0.556±0.016b	36.0±1.27b	9.7±0.08b
	Grafted	7	4.8	4.02±0.20a	0.627±0.011a	40.8±0.79a	10.9±0.19a
H3	Non-grafted	7	5.2	2.79±0.17b	0.451±0.019a	39.5±2.48b	12.7±0.58b
	Grafted	6	5.8	3.63±0.10a	0.500±0.016a	47.7±3.03a	13.3±0.39a
H5	Non-grafted	8	3.2	2.90±0.07a	0.352±0.014b	31.3±1.63b	10.0±0.21b
	Grafted	7	4.5	3.09±0.19a	0.397±0.012a	37.2±0.93a	11.0±0.16a

H1: cuttings harvested on June 17; H3: cuttings harvested on July 27; H5: cuttings harvested on September 5; values (mean ± S.E.) labelled with a different letter suffix differ significantly from one another according to Duncan’s multiple range test (𝑃<0.05).