Claim · model-written summary
Reducing soil depth from 8 to 4 inches increased problems of too much or insufficient water for carnations.
- Taxon
- carnations
Dianthus caryophyllust0 - Treatment
- Reduction of soil depth from 8 to 4 inchese1
- Outcome
- problems that result from too much or insufficient watere1
- Direction
- increasede1
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Verbatim
e1“Reduction of soil depth from 8 to 4 inches increased problems that result from too much or insufficient water”
t0“The effect of soil moisture stress on growth and flowering of carnations”
Title
The effect of soil moisture stress on growth and flowering of carnations
Kowalczyk, Richard Adam Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University) 1967. doi:10.25675/3.025142
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Carnation yield and grade were best when plants were grown in 8-inch soil.
- Intervention effect Raw field soil decreased carnation yield in a greenhouse bench because of an aeration problem.
- Intervention effect High soil moisture stress delayed the flowering of the second crop of carnations by up to 5 weeks.
- Association Some soil moisture stress may be essential for producing higher grade carnations.
- Association The number of stomatal and epidermal cells per unit area increased as soil moisture stress increased.
- Intervention effect Leaves of plants grown under high stress had greater resistance to transpiration.
- Association The correlation between transpiration rate and stomatal aperture was higher than that between transpiration rate and solar radiation.
- Observation The lithium chloride hygrometer was not sensitive enough to indicate when to water carnations in a greenhouse.
- Observation Measuring stomatal apertures with silicon rubber impressions was too laborious for a practical field technique.
- Observation The stomatal index was not beneficial for understanding stomatal distribution in carnations.
- Observation Bulk density, moisture content at all suctions and total pore space of the best soils were an average of the extremes of all soils compared.