期刊
AGRONOMY-BASEL
卷 12, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy12061377
关键词
compost; Phoenix dactylifera L.; horticultural crops; coir fiber; growing media; chemometric tools
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
- European Regional Development Funds (FEDER, Una manera de hacer Europa), Project PALMRESOURCE [AGL2013-41612-R]
The constraints of using peat in horticulture have led to the search for alternative materials. This study explores the feasibility of using organic materials derived from palm trees as growing media for lettuce transplant production. The study found that mixing palm-derived materials with coir fiber showed similar performance to 100% coir fiber in terms of lettuce seedling growth.
The constraints associated with peat use in horticulture has led to a search for alternative materials for their use as growing media. The organic materials derived from palm trees (composted or not) can constitute an alternative due to their ligneous and fibrous character, similar to coir fiber. This work studies the feasibility of using several palm-tree-derived (Phoenix dactylifera L.) organic materials as growing media ingredients for the transplant production of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. Senna). For this, the following substrates were studied: five mixtures for each palm-derived material (palm trunks and leaves and composts derived from palm trunk and leaves), in the proportions of 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100% by volume, mixed with coir fiber. Coir fiber at the proportion 100% was used as the control treatment. Physical, physico-chemical, and chemical analyses were conducted on the substrates, and the germination and morphological parameters of the seedlings were examined. Chemometric tools, such as random forest (RF) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) were also used to evaluate the data obtained. The type and proportion of material used in the growing media principally affected the parameters studied in the lettuce seedlings. The substrates with a percentage of compost lower than 60% showed behavior closer to that observed in the growing media with 100% coir fiber and with the mixture of coir fiber and palm leaves or trunks at all proportions.
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