Abstract

The study investigated the effect of watering regimes and pot sizes on the early growth of Triplochiton Scleroxylond seedings.  Using complete randomize design. The watering regimes consist of Treatment W1 (watering once daily), Treatment W2(watering once in two days), Treatment W3 (watering once in two-three days).  The pot sizes were: P3 (1820cm²), P2 (595cm³) and P1 (235cm³). The data were subjected to analysis of Variance (ANOVA) on height, girth, a number of leaves and the result showed that were significant differences among the treatments at (P<0.05) in the three-parameter assessed. Treatment P₃W₁ had the highest mean height of 27.8cm while Treatment P₁W₁ had 15.6cm. In stem diameter, Treatment P₃W₁ had the highest stem diameter of 0.38mm, while Treatment P₁W₁ had the lowest, 0.30mm other Treatments irrespective of pot sizes performed poorly, and at the end of the study, it could be observed that there is a relationship between watering and pot sizes on the stem girth increase of the species. On the number of leaves, Treatment P₃W₁ had the highest number of leaf count of 17.6, while Treatment P₁W₁ had 14.0. From the study, it was observed that there were interactions between the pot sizes and the daily watering regime on the early growth of Triplochiton Scleroxylon seedings. The study recommended that watering daily should be adopted with pot size (1820cm³) under the condition of this study for the normal growth of the species.