| To graft gardenia in vitro , shoot tips and nodes of Gardenia thunbergia used as rootstocks planted on MS medium with BA at 0.0 ,0.5 , 1.0 , 1.5 and 2.0 mg/l or kinetin at 0.0 , 2.5 , 5.0 , 10.0 and 15.0 mg /l for multiplication . Shoots produced in vitro rooted on medium supplemented with 1.5 mg/l IBA and 3 gm/l agar for micrografting . The experiment included shoot tips multiplication of gardenia used as scions from planting on medium supplemented with BA at 0.0 , 0.5 , 1.0 , 1.5 and 2.0 mg/l , scions treated with kinetin at 0.0 , 1.0 and 2.0 mg/l quick dipped before micrografting , data refers , planting nodes of rootstock G. thunbergia on MS medium supplemented with 1.0 mg/l BA gave the highest average of shoots number( 11.2 shoot /explant) , on the other hand shoot tips gave 7.8 shoot /explant when planted on medium supplemented with 2.0 mg /l BA after eight weeks . Planting shoot tips of scion (Veitchii cv. ) on medium at 2.0 mg /l BA gave 4.5 shoot /explant after four weeks , high encounter 90 % achieved by treated scions with 0.0 or 1.0 mg /l kinetin , highest length 1.23cm of scion and length of plantlet 1.99cm obtained from 1.0 mg /l kinetin after eight weeks , in vitro micrografting plantlet after acclimatization transferred to field and grown with survival 100 % . |