EFFECTS OF VERMITE A USED AS PREPLANTING TREATMENT ON DIFFERENT VEGETATIVE CUTTINGS OF NAPIER GRASS (Pennisetum purpureum

Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum) has been increasingly associated with intensive and semi-intensive dairy cattle and goat production systems to meet the increasing demand for milk and meat, a previous study on different vermitea levels conducted showed that 25% concentration of vermitea was enough to enhance the growth of Napier grass. The study was conducted at the experimental area of Mindanao State UniversityGeneral Santos City during March 16 until April 20, 2017. It aimed to determine and evaluate the effect of vermitea as pre-planting treatment n different vegetative parts of Napier grass and determine the most responsive vegetative parts to vermitea application The experimental design used in this study was Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with four treatments and six replications. Pots were assigned in every replication and used different vegetative parts of Napier grass as the treatments such as: TI (Rhizome). T2 (Base node), T3 (Mid-node), and T4 (Terminal node). Results of this endeavor showed that Rhizome responded well in terms of shoot emergence while Mid-node and Basal node were the most responsive vegetative cuttings in terms of height increment. Similar study is also suggested using varied stem cuttings of different plant species to obtain more conclusive results of the study.