This work was carried out at greenhouse, in the CCA-UFES, Alegre-ES and had as an aim to study the effect of different heights of cut of stem in sproution of papaya plants Tainung 01 (Carica papaya L.). The work was carried out in two phases, utilizing plants with age of 190 days cultivated in polyethylene containers of 1288 cm³. In the first phase, the experimental design was in completely randomized design, with three treatments and 14 replications of one plant per plot: plants cutting with 20; 35 e 50 cm of height, measured from the plant lap. After 30 days of cut of the stem, they evaluated the next agronomical characteristic: last shoot diameter, last shoot size, last shoot leaf number larger one centimeter and shoot number for plant. In this first phase, the last shoot size was the characteristic that introduced significant difference. In the second phase, last shoots of plants utilized in the previous phase were removed. The experimental design was in completely randomized design with 13 repetitions in split plot, with the primary treatments of the previous phase and in split plot was made an evaluation in the first one and at 15 and 30 days. The agronomical characteristic evaluated was the same of the first phase. The cutting at 20 cm height provides better last shoot development and increase of the leaf number in the last shoot.
Carica papaya; seedling; vegetative propagation; shoot
