Calcium Carbonate Can Be Used to Manage Soilless Substrate pH for Blueberry Production
Horticulturae, 2021 Blueberry (Vacciniumcorymbosum interspecific hybrids) production in soilless substrates is becoming increasingly popular. Soilless substrates have low pH buffering capacity.
Michael J. Schreiber, Gerardo H. Nunez
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A targeted management of the nutrient solution in a soilless tomato crop according to plant needs [PDF]
, 2016 The adoption of closed soilless systems is useful in minimizing the environmental impact of the greenhouse crops. Instead, a significant problem in closed soilless systems is represented by the accumulation of ions in the recycled nutrient solution (NS),
Santamaria, Pietro +2 more
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Comparison of the growth, fruit quality, and physiological characteristics of tomato nourished by three different nutrient solutions in soil and soilless culture systems [PDF]
Greenhouse Plant Production JournalTo evaluate the effect of different nutrient solutions on growth and yield characteristics of tomato plants, as well as to evaluate the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of fruit in soil- and soilless-cultivation, factorial experiment was ...
Alireza Khaleghi +2 more
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Advances in Soilless Culture and Growing Media in Today’s Horticulture—An Editorial
Agronomy, 2022 The soilless culture system is a promising, intensive, and sustainable approach with various advantages for plant production. The Special Issue “Soilless Culture, Growing Media, and Horticultural Plants” includes 22 original papers and 1 review written ...
Nazim S. Gruda
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Design Of Intelligent Balcony Agricultural Cultivation Equipment [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 The original design of a new type of intelligent balcony agricultural cultivation equipment, the equipment mainly includes two parts: cultivation room and cultivation trough.
Yang Wenxiong
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Modelling evapotranspiration of soilless cut roses "Red Naomi" based on climatic and crop predictors [PDF]
, 2019 Original PaperThis study aimed to estimate the daily crop evapotranspiration (ETc) of soilless cut ‘Red Naomi’ roses, cultivated in a commercial glass greenhouse, using climatic and crop predictors.
Costa, Patrícia Malva +2 more
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Agronomy, 2022 The global production quantity and the utilisation area harvested for the cultivation of tomatoes have significantly increased in the last three decades.
Sylvie Masquelier +4 more
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Glass foam granulate as growing medium for tomato and cucumber [PDF]
, 2011 Glass foam granulate was evaluated for use as a horticultural rooting medium with laboratory tests and cultivation experiments. The laboratory tests included moisture characteristics, rehydration rate and pH buffering analyses.
Blok, C., Chizhmak, S., Winkel, A., van
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Agronomy, 2022 The effects of soilless substrate-based versus soil cultivation on overall fruit quality and yield in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) were studied using the tomato cv. Zhonghua Lvbao.
Jinghua Guo +7 more
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Possibilities for soilless cultivation in cut chrysanthemum: Effect of irrigation frequencies and spacing schedules [PDF]
, 2011 Three levels of irrigation frequencies, provided by root misting, combined with three plant densities and two spacing treatments were tested to evaluate the optimum conditions during the first crop stages of chrysanthemum in a soilless cultivation system
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