The Flowering Capabilities of Three Water lily Hybrids

Abstract

This research aims to examine the yields of water lilies belonging to the Nymphaea sp. (hybrid) for flowering capabilities purposes: Nymphaea ‘Chalongkwan’, Nymphaea ‘Khaomongkol’, and Nymphaea ‘Chompoomamiew’. The randomized complete block design (RCB) was implemented in which three sets of five experiments each were carried out. The data were collected three months after the cultivars had been grown for one month at the experimental plot of Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi. The research results revealed that N. ‘Chalongkwan’ was the cultivars with the highest monthly yield, i.e. 14.48 flowers per clump, each with a flowers diameter of 18.89 cm and a stalk diameter of 1.56 cm. This was followed by N. ‘Chompoomamiew’, which produced a monthly yield of 11.86 flowers per clump, each with a flower diameter of 16.06 cm and a stalk diameter of 1.31 cm. The cultivars with the lowest yield was N. ‘Khaomongkol’, i.e. only 9.91 flowers per clump, each with a flower diameter of 15.09 cm and a stalk diameter of 1.35 cm. In addition, N. ‘Chalongkwan’ produced the highest yield per rai of 5,792 flowers, followed by N. ‘Chompoomamiew’ at 4,741 flowers, and N. ‘Khaomongkol’at 3,962 flowers.