Effect Variety and Stratified Plantlet Nursery to the GrowthSugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) Propagated in Single Bud

Background: Studies was carried out to determine whether there is interaction effect between sugarcane varieties and stratified nurseries to the percentage of plantlet viability and its height. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in Perning and Mojokerto from June-August, 2015. The study method using a completely randomized factorial design consisting of two factors, namely the variety including Bululawang, VMC 76-16, Cokro and clone Columbia-2 while, the second factor is the stratified nurseries including Grandma’s Plantlet Nursery (GPN), Mother’s Plantlet Nursery (MPN) and Flat Plantlet Nursery (FPN). Thus, there were 12 treatment combinations and repeated three times. The bud-chips were planted in the trays with the size 4 cm during 3 months, every month data was collected for percentage of plantlet viability and its height. Data analyzed was done by Minitab 16 for ANOVA and LSD 5%. Results: The results showed that there is not interaction between stratified nursery and variety to the percentage of plantlet viability and plantlet height. Stratified nursery shows that GPN significantly produces percentage of plantlet viability and its height greater at Month After Sowing (MAS) while, MPN gives plantlet higher at the last 3 MAS. Bululawang gives percentage of plantlet viability significantly greater at 1 MAS only while, VMC 76-16 shows the plantlet higher at 1 and 2 MAS. Four varieties planted show the same response at 3 MAS to variables used. That means their responses to percentage of viability and plantlet height are the same. Based on this study, the use of single bud (bud-chip) technique based SOP able to produce percentage viability until 90%. Conclusion: It can be concluded that Columbia-2 is a promising introducing clone. On the other hand, superior bud-chips can be produced from both GPN or MPN and able to be used as the right solution.