EFFECT OF GROWTH REGULATORS ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF CHILLI (CAPSICUM ANNUUM.L) CV. K2

The Experiment was conducted during 2007, in the Vegetable Unit, Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications and nine treatments of growth regulators. The study revealed that the foliar application influenced on the growth and yield attributing character of chilli over control. The result exhibited that the growth regulators namely NAA and brassino steroid foliar spray during flower bud initiation stage was found to be beneficial for increasing the plant height, number of branches per plant and Dry matter production compared to control. With brassio steroid to yield contributing character i.e. Number of flowers per plant fruits setting percentage, fruit length, fruit girth, average fruit weight, number of fruit per plant, and fruit yield per plant showed increase in foliar spray of brassio steroid 1 ppm than all other treatment including control