The effect of the size of the bulbs and the type of fertilizer in the number and length of leaves and flower production in lilium longiflorum

Abstract EN

Due to the importance of Lilium longiflorum plant as crop produced for flowering bulbs of beautiful colors and aromatic scent, which gives purity and beauty to the environment in it, and spread it cultivated in America, Europe and Japan as flowering plants and cut flowers, not to mention cultivation in the provinces of Lilium longiflorum plant as an Syria (Hama - Damascus – Lattakia)The research was conducted with the aim of studying the effect of the type of fertilizer and the size of the bulbs planted on the number and length of leaves and the number of flowers of the fleshy lily plant under the conditions of the city of Hama, the experiment was designed according to the splinter sectors, the main factor is the type of fertilizer and its number is(5) / sheepskin manure, poultry manure, metallic balanced, metallic high phosphorus, (without fertilization), the splinter factor, the size of the bulbs is / 2 / large bulbs with a circumference (21 - 25 cm), and small bulbs with a circumference (17 - 20 cm), and the following is shown: 1- Plants planted in soil fertilized with organic and mineral fertilizers significantly outperformed plants cultivated in soil that were not fertilized in the number and length of leaves, the ratio of flower stem and length, and the number of flowering buds.

2- The lily plants responded positively to the organic fertilizer and the high-phosphorous mineral fertilization, as it led to a significant increase in each of the vegetative growth indicators (number of leaves, leaf length) 3- The treatment of using large bulbs (21-25 cm) was significantly superior to the treatment of using small bulbs (17-20 cm) in all indicators of vegetative growth, while it was not significantly superior to the number of flowering buds.4-The combined effect of both the large size of the bulb used in agriculture and the high-phosphorous mineral fertilizer showed significant superiority in most of the studied indicators.