Claim · model-written summary
Stem lengths, buds and blossoms per stem were higher when fertilizers were applied consecutively than alternately.
- Taxon
- wild blueberriese0
- Treatment
- fertilizers were applied consecutivelye4
- Outcome
- Average stem lengths, buds and blossoms per steme4
- Direction
- highere4
- Comparator
- alternatelye4
- Setting
- Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotiae0
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Verbatim
e0“Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the response of wild blueberries to soil-applied fertilization over four cropping cycles in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia from 1997 to 2004”
e4“Average stem lengths, buds and blossoms per stem were higher over the length of the study when fertilizers were applied consecutively compared with alternately”
Title
Comparison of consecutive and alternate fertilizer applications in wild blueberry production
L. J. Eaton; K. R. Sanderson; S. A. E. Fillmore Canadian Journal of Plant Science 2009. doi:10.4141/cjps08068
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Fertilizer applications increased soil levels of P and K in wild blueberry fields.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer applications increased leaf tissue concentrations of N and P in wild blueberry.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer applications increased stem lengths of wild blueberry plants.
- Intervention effect Consecutive fertilizer applications gave higher soil P levels than alternate applications in wild blueberry.
- Intervention effect Consecutive fertilizer applications gave higher leaf tissue concentrations of N, P and K than alternate applications in wild blueberry.
- Intervention effect Fruit yields of wild blueberry increased with fertilizer applications compared with the unfertilized control.
- Intervention effect Within fertilizer treatments, fruit yield of wild blueberry was not affected by consecutive or alternate cropping-cycle application.
- Recommendation The authors suggest that alternate fertilizer applications may reduce soil P accumulation and production costs without compromising yield.