An experiment was conducted at University of Agricultural sciences, Bengaluru to investigate the “Study the effect of different growing conditions and month of grafting on Graft-Take, Leaves and Scion diameter. The result revealed that the effect of month of grafting on days taken for first sprouting was observed, significantly lesser number of days taken for first sprouting was recorded in the month of March (20.47 days) followed by in February (22.55 days). The highest days taken for first sprouting was recorded in the month of May (24.31days). Among the three different growing conditions, significantly lesser days for first sprouting was observed in poly house (20.46 days),the higher days for first sprouting was observed in open field condition (24.62days) whereas under shade net condition (22.62 days) taken for first sprouting. Days taken for first sprouting were significantly influenced by the interaction between month and condition (M×C). The interaction of M2C1 that is March month under low cost polyhouse (18.88 days) recorded lesser days taken for first sprouting. The higher days for first sprouting were recorded with the interaction of M4C2 that is during May month grafts kept under open field condition (26.06 days). Higher number of sprouts per graft were recorded in March (12.02 days), followed by February (9.51days) and least in May (6.84 days). Among the three different growing conditions, maximum number of sprouts (11.88) was observed in grafts kept under low cost polyhouse condition followed by (9.97) shadenet condition. However the minimum number of sprouts (5.82) was recorded in open field condition whereas under shadenet condition (9.97) sprouts were observed. Interaction effect between different growing conditions and grafting months showed that significantly highest number of sprouts (16) were noticed in grafts which are done in March month and kept under low cost polyhouse and followed by same month grafted plants kept under shade net condition (12.7). While the less number of sprouts (3.73) were recorded in grafts which are done in May month and kept under open field condition. Significantly higher number of leaves per graft was found in the month of March (25.01 and 42.31) followed by February (22.11 and 31.37) and the least number of leaves per graft was found in the month of May (16.55 and 20.78) at 60 and 90 days after grafting respectively. Number of leaves per graft was observed significantly higher under polyhouse (25.66 and 37.19) followed by shadenet condition (22.8 and 32.16) while significantly lesser number of leaves per graft was found under open field condition (14.63 and 23.18) at 60 and 90 days after grafting respectively. Interaction effect between different growing conditions and grafting months showed significantly maximum number of leaves (30.66) and (51.06)were noticed in grafting which is done in March month under low cost polyhouse and least number of leaves were observed during May month grafts kept under open field condition (10.53) and (16.53) at 60 and 90 days after grafting respectively.

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