Keeping Quality and Vase Life of Carnation Cv. ‘Eskimo’ As Influenced By Different Chemicals

Present experiment was carried out to check the effect of differentconcentrations of sucrose (2, 4, 6%), ga3 (25, 50, 75 ppm) and combinationof sucrose and cuso4 (2% + 200, 4% + 300, 6% + 400 ppm), sucrose andga3 (2% + 25 ppm), (4%+50 ppm), (6%+75 ppm) on keeping quality andvase life of carnation cv. ‘eskimo’. some postharvest characteristics such asvase life, total soluble solids (tss), water uptake and quality change wereevaluated. the experiment was laid out according to rcd (randomizedcomplete design) with three replications while for quality change it was twofactor factorial. maximum vase life in term of days was recorded in treatmentt6 and t13 (8 days) followed by t4 (7.7 days). t5 & t12 were at par (7 days).maximum water uptake was also observed in t13 (56.7 ml) followed by t6(49.7 ml) and t8 (45 ml). maximum tss were found in t13 (8.3 %) followedby t6, t11 and t12. keeping quality characteristic of t6 was deterioratedslowly as compared to other treatments. hence, t6 was found superior inoverall respects.