GROWTH AND FLOWERING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF TEN POTTED CHRYSANTHEMUM CULTIVARS.

Chrysanthemum is one the most important flower crops commercially grown for cut flower, loose flowers, bedding and pot plants. Along with ensuring optimal culture conditions, an appropriate nutrition regime and the application of appropriate management, the most important factors on which the success of a chrysanthemum containerized culture depends are: the choice of suitable varieties for containerized culture, high-quality planting material. In order to diversify the current Chrysanthemum assortment and to promote of the most valuable cultivars for containerized culture, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the growth and flowering performance of ten Chrysanthemum cultivars, in greenhouse conditions. From the data presented, taking into account both flowering phenology and morphological characters, decorative features, the best varieties within the studied Chrysanthemum assortment were Meridian White and Sumbeam Pink Bicolor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]