Gladiolus
Crop Detail

Gladiolus is a classic plant known for its tall flower spikes. A great cutting flower, gladioli look beautiful in midsummer bouquets. Here’s how to grow gladioli in your garden. Available in a multitude of colors, gladioli grow between 2 to 5 feet in height. Gladiolus flowers are liked by the people all over the world. It is a perennial flowering plant which has sword shape leaves, funnel shaped perianth and spoon shaped branches. The flowers bloom mainly in the month of October-March. It produces wide range of flower color ranging from pink to reddish, light purple to white, or white to cream or orange to red.

Major/Minor Major
Temporary/Permanent Temporary
Category Agriculture Extension
Type Ornamentals
Climate Sub Tropical
Water Method Irrigated
Duration Perennial
Economic Type Cash Crop
Growing Season Rabi / Winter / Cold Crops

Managements

Fertilizer
Land Preparation
Sowing Method
Sowing Time
Row - Row Distance
Plant - Plant Distance
Irrigation
Harvesting
Thrashing
Pruning
Cutting
Spraying
Climate
Storage
Marketing
Rouging
Inter Cropping
Seed Soaking

Pests, Weeds, Diseases & Disorders

Sucking Pests
Mites Thrips Aphid
Weeds
Mannual Weeding
Fungal Diseases
Rust Fusarium wilt Corm rot
Nematodes
Root Knot Nematodes
Bacterial Diseases
Bacterial Blight
Viral Diseases
Mosaic

Seed Varieties

Name Seed Rate
BULBS: GLADIOLUS IS PRIMARILY PROPAGATED THROUGH BULBS OR CORMS RATHER THAN SEEDS. BULBS ARE THE PRIMARY PLANTING MATERIAL, AND THEY RESEMBLE SMALL, ROUNDED STRUCTURES WITH A BASAL PLATE AND NUMEROUS SCALES. Not applicable for typical Gladiolus cultivation
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