Abstract :
Disposal of flowers offered daily to the deity in the temples by devotees creates pollution and unhygienic environment which leads to produce diseases. Hence, it is a matter of great concern to the temple management authorities as well as municipality of that area. These are either released in the water body (nearby ponds or river) or dumped at road side garbage bins. Flower vendors, marriage mandaps also generate a considerable quantity of flowers wastes. Being organic materials, these can be easily converted to good quality manure. Different varieties of seasonal coloured flowers are grown and utilized throughout India. An attempt has been made to prepare vermicompost from different types of flowers such as Marigold (Tagetes), Rose (Rosa), Chandni (Tabernaemontana divaricata), Yellow Kaner/White (Cascabela thevetia), oak (Quercus), mogra (Jasminium sambac) and lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) flowers. Flower waste vermicompost may be employed in vegetable as well as medicinal plants for the assessment of its quality. For this purpose twelve flower pots were selected and experiment were conducted in four combination of treatment, in Treatment-1 (TR-1) soil 4kg (8:0) alone as a control, Treatment-2 (TR-2) Soil + Temple waste vermicompost (8:1), Treatment -3 (TR-3) Soil + Cattle dung vermicompost (8:1) and Treatment-4 (TR-2) Soil + dung (8:1) were employed. In each pot two seed of bhindi plant were sown, called them Plant-1 (P1) and Plant-2 (P2). Each treatment was carried out in triplicate to reduce the variation. Experiments were conducted for 77 days (11 weeks). The main objective of this study is to find the quality of prepared vermicompost of floral waste on the growth and development of bhindi plant (Hibiscus esculentus) in comparisons to others.
Keyword :
Bhindi Plant, Cattle-dung vermicompost, Temple-waste vermicompost.