01863naa a2200193 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000180006024500590007826000090013752013260014665000250147265000090149765300280150665300260153470000170156070000160157777300760159316324991992-08-04       1991    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aLARSON, K. D.  aVegetative propagation of spanish lime and jaboticaba.  c1991  aPropagation of Spanish lime (Melicoccus bijugatus jacq.) and jaboticaba (Myciaria cauliflora (Mart.) Berg) was attempted from herbaceous and hardwood cuttings, and by marcottage. Shoots were either girdled one month prior to making cuttings, or left ungirdled. Basal ends of cuttings weretreated with 0, 1.6%, or 4.5% indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), placed in perlite rooting media under mist (15 sec of mist every 10 min), and either exposed to bottom heating or not heated. Regardless of girdling, IBA or heat treatment, only a small percentage of hardwood cuttings of Spanish lime rooted; no rooting was observed for jaboticaba or for herbaceous cuttings of Spanish lime. In a second series of experiments, shoots of both species were either girdled (cinctured) about one month prior to marcottage or girdled at the time of marcottage. For both treatments, basal ends of marcots were treated with 0, 1.6%, or 4.5% IBA in lanolin at the time marcots were made. After 3 months, regardless of treatment, no rooting was observed for jaboticaba marcots. Rooting  was observed  in 60% to 88% of the Spanish lime marcots; there was no effect of IBA or time of girdling. However, for propagation of Spanish lime, marcottage of vigorously growing upright shoots was more successful then marcottage of less vigorous lateral shoots.  aMelicoccus bijugatus  aMuda  aacido indole-3-buterico  amigriciria cauliflora1 aSCHAFFER, B.1 aLARA, S. P.  tProceedings Florida State Horticultural Society.gv.104, p.54-56, 1991.