EMERGÊNCIA E CRESCIMENTO INICIAL DE PLÂNTULAS DE Murraya exotica L. EM FUNÇÃO DA POSIÇÃO E PROFUNDIDADE DE SEMEADURA.

Abstract

The species Murraya exotica L., popularly known as orange jasmine is very useful in the urban landscape, rural, in the ornamentation and also as a medicinal porpuse. Thus the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of sowing position and depth on the emergence and early growth of M. exotica seedlings. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse with a completely randomized design and treatments distributed in a factorial of 3 x 5, constituting of three seeding positions (HC, HL and HB) and six depths (0, 1, 2, 3 4 and 5 cm) in four replications of 25 seeds. In evaluating the effect of treatment was determined the water content, emergency speed index, percentage and emergence first count, as well as the length and dry weight of roots and shoots of normal seedlings Thes seeds Murraya exotica should be sown with the hilum facing side (HL) or down (HB) at a depth of 1.22 cm.