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Zinnia is a loose flower used for religious purposes and for social functions in India. The present experiment entitled “The effect of various growing media on quality of Zinnia” was carried out at Horticultural nursery, College of Agriculture, IGKV, Raipur, (C.G) during the year 2022 and the experiment was conducted in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with 10 treatments and 3 replications. All the media treatments studied recorded superior over control. Among the media treatments studied T10 (Garden soil 50% + FYM 25% + VC 25% + Azotobacter showed significant effect with different parameters viz. minimum days taken to first flower bud initiation (34.73 days), maximum blooming period (12.03 days), maximum flower weight (1.95 g), maximum flower yield (42.4 g), maximum number of flowers per plant (37.96). The findings revealed that all the characters linked flowering parameters were greatly affected by all the growing media treatments and quality as well.