Assessing Plant Growth Performance of Chrysanthemum Morifolium (Yellow Zambia Sunny) by using Different Rates of Organic fertilizer Applications at MARDI, Cameron Highlands.

• Main Author: Nur Iziyan Athirah Farid
• Format: Undergraduate Final Project Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/4701/1/NUR%20IZIYAN%20ATHIRAH%20BINTI%20FARID.pdf; http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/4701/

Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium) is one type of popular ornamental plants flowers that have a relatively high economic especially at high land like Cameron Highlands, Pahang and have good marketing prospects value in Malaysia. Requests cut flowers, and potted chrysanthemum plants are increasing from year to year, in line with improving standards of living. By to increase the request demands of chrysanthemum with the economic cost, the experiment was conducted by using organic fertilizer application with different rates as a replacement to chemical fertilizer. The study aims were to identify which rates of organic fertilizer application give the excellent growth of chrysanthemum and also to recognise the growth significant between organic fertilizer application and chemical fertilizer application. The research was conducted in Mardi, Cameron Highland, Pahang. The study is based on RCBD of four treatment with four replications. The four treatments including control treatment, NPK Blue fertilizer (Control) (T1), (600g, 12:12:17:2), (T2) Harvester Amino (600g, 5:5:5), (T3) Harvester Amino (900g, 5:5:5), (T4) Harvester Amino (1000g, 5:5:5). The data result indicated on the parameter is needed. Among all the treatment, the performance growth of Chrysanthemum by using organic harvester fertilizer treatment showing more excellent plant growth performance comparing using control treatment which is NPK Blue. This is means organic fertilizer also one of the fertilizers that can be used to fertilize the chrysanthemum and give the best result of plant performance same as chemical fertilizer. Organic fertilizer also has good characteristics in plant propagation of media such as soils are dark in colour, lightweight, and have extremely high water holding capacities. The nutrient in organic soil is greater than 60% contain organic matter which also accumulates from temperature and moisture. Besides, the organic fertilizer cheaper and easy to get. These organic fertilizer are also commonly used in the Agriculture sector. In conclusion, organic fertilizer can be used for plant fertilize and propagation in order to get the excellent plant growth the same as chemical fertilizer.