A Half-yearly Peer Reviewed Journal of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute
Teak fruits were experimentally graded by weight and
graded according to size This gave a total 35 weight-cum-size
grades of fruits The germinative and the average seedling production
capacity of the fruits of each grade were tested. It was found that
the results were influenced by the way the data were arranged and
produced. The weight-cum-size arrangement showed confused, unexpected
and unnatural trends which were difficult to explain but the
size-cum-weight arrangement showed a linear relationship between size
of the fruit and the number of seeds which was according to expectation
and in conformity with the results reported earlier It has, therefore,
been concluded that size of the fruit is primary and the weight is
only secondary in determining the quality of Teak fruits. Grading of
Teak fruits by combining size and weight can give fruit lots upto
50-75 percent germinability and average number of 1.00-2 50 seedlings
per fruit.