Evaluation of sawdust as a potting medium for container growing with Coleus blumei as a test plant

Olympio, N.S.; Sarkodie Mensah, S. . Dept. of Horticulture

Evaluation of sawdust as a potting medium for container growing with Coleus blumei as a test plant

1987

Olympio, N.S. | Sarkodie Mensah, S. (University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (Ghana). Dept. of Horticulture)

Partially decomposed sawdust-sand mixes were used to determine suitable potting medium, with Coleus blumei as a test plant. The saw dust was mixed with sand at 100:0, 75:25, 50:50, 25:75, and 0:100% by volume. The 25:75 sawdust/sand mix produced the best plants even though the physical and chemical properties were not adequate to sustain growth. Plants grown in higher sawdust % mixes performed poorly

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AGROVOC Keywords

arena sable sciure substrat de culture

Bibliographic information

Published in

Proceedings - Ghana Science Association (Ghana) | Biology and Agriculture

Volume 3

Pagination

pp. 255-260

Other Subjects

Ghana/ evaluation; Ghana/ evaluacion; Sustrato; Aserrin

Language

English

Note

3 tables; 16 ref. Summary (En)

Type

Conference; Bibliography; Summary

Conference

Joint 13th Biennial Conference of West African Science Association (WASA) and the 15th Biennial Conference of the G.S.A., Legon (Ghana), 24-29 Aug 1987

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