Table 3.

Morphology of cocoa clones according to the age of the rootstock.

Clones	Number of emerged shoots			Number of branches			Number of leaves			Number of internodes
	Age of rootstock (month)
	2	3	4	2	3	4	2	3	4	2	3	4
C1	0.0 aa	0.0 a	0.3 a	0.0 a	0.0 a	0.3 a	0.0 a	0.0 a	1.0 a	0.0 a	0.0 a	0.5 a
C8	0.0 b	0.0 b	0.5 a	0.0 b	0.0 b	0.5 a	0.0 b	0.0 b	1.2 a	0.0 b	0.0 b	0.5 a
C9	0.2 a	0.3 a	0.5 a	0.2 a	0.3 a	0.5 a	0.5 a	0.5 a	1.2 a	0.1 a	0.3 a	0.5 a
C14	0.4 a	0.5 a	0.4 a	0.4 a	0.5 a	0.4 a	0.0 a	1.9 a	1.5 a	0.0 a	0.6 a	0.5 a
C15	0.2 a	0.5 a	0.4 a	0.2 a	0.5 a	0.4 a	0.7 a	1.9 a	1.4 a	0.3 a	0.9 a	1.0 a
C16	0.0 a	0.1 a	0.3 a	0.0 a	0.1 a	0.3 a	0.0 a	0.4 a	1.2 a	0.0 a	0.2 a	0.7 a
C17	0.0 b	0.6 a	0.4 ab	0.0 b	0.6 a	0.4 ab	0.0 a	1.6 a	1.5 a	0.0 a	0.7 a	1.1 a
C18	0.0 b	0.2 b	1.2 a	0.0 b	0.2 b	1.2 a	0.0 b	0.4 b	4.5 a	0.0 b	0.2 b	2.0 a
C20	0.0 b	0.5 b	1.4 a	0.0 b	0.5 b	1.4 a	0.0 b	1.3 b	4.0 a	0.0 b	0.7 b	1.9 a
C21	0.0 a	0.6 a	0.7 a	0.0 b	0.5 b	1.4 a	0.0 b	1.9 b	2.3 a	0.0 b	1.1 a	1.3 a
Means	0.04	0.3	0.6	0.04	0.3	0.6	0.1	1.0	2.0	0.1	0.5	1.0

Clones	Main branch diameter
	2	3	2	4	2	4
C1	0.00 a	0.00 a	0.00 a	1.17 a	12.26 c	18.46 a
C8	0.00 b	0.00 b	0.00 b	0.24 a	12.33 c	20.20 a
C9	0.13 a	0.86 a	0.07 a	0.32 a	11.73 c	19.53 a
C14	0.00 a	1.20 a	0.00 a	0.23 a	11.40 b	16.00 a
C15	0.53 a	1.40 a	0.16 a	0.33 a	11.40 b	16.00 a
C16	0.00 a	0.20 a	0.00 a	0.2 5 a	12.26 c	19.73 a
C17	0.00 c	2.13 a	0.00 b	0.34 ab	11.53 c	18.40 a
C18	0.00 b	0.20 b	0.00 b	0.83 a	11.33 c	19.26 a
C20	0.00 b	1.20 b	0.00 b	0.84 a	11.40 c	19.80 a
C21	0.00 b	2.07 ab	0.00 a	0.50 a	11.80 c	19.80 a
Means	0.07	0.93	0.02	0.41	11.66	19.05

^aMeans with the same letters in the same line are not significantly different with Duncan's test at 5%.