Effect of water qualities & soil texture on the growth of sweet orange plants that grafted on sour orange stocks.

Abstract

This experiment was conducted in a private fruit nursery at Babylon Governorate the period from the first of March 2008 until 15- July- 2008 to study the effect of quality of water with three kinds and the soil texture with two types also the interactions. Sweet Orange plants that grafted on sour orange stocks with 18 monthage were chosenat same size and the height.The land was prepared before planting, the experiment included about 6 treatments with 3 replicates in each. Results showeda significant differences on studied parameters under the salt stress conditions by irrigated with wells water compare with normal water , The sand loam soil texture was surpass on the silty clay loam with the average of leaf area , the length of vegetative shoots, the fresh and dry weight of the shoots and the average of total chlorophyll in the leaves