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.