Abstract
This study were conducted in the Nursery of the Technical Institute/Mosul/ Iraq, during two growing seasons 2008and 2009, to study the effect of shading percentage (zero, 50% and 75%) from the total sun light on germination of seeds and their effect on growth (stem length, stem diameter, leaves number, number of branches, length of branches, length of roots) by used color green plastic (Saran). The results indicated that are significant effects of shading treatments for two growing seasons 2008 and 2009 and the interaction between them on germination of Loquat seeds and their effect on growth (stem length, stem diameter, leaves number, number of branches, length of branches, length of roots). The treatment of shading percentage (50%) in 2008 growing season was the best treatment which gave the highest means in germination of seeds as compared with the other treatment, but the sun treatment in 2008 growing season was the best treatment in (stem length, stem diameter, leaves number, length of roots and number of branches and their lengths in 2009 grown season) The treatment of sun shading percentage in 2008 growing season was the best treatment in stem length.
