Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend pH adjustment when cocopeat is used as blueberry medium.
- Taxon
- blueberryt0
- Treatment
- cocopeate0
- Outcome
- the use of cocopeat as a soil medium should be followed by pH adjustmente0
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Verbatim
e0“the use of cocopeat as a soil medium should be followed by pH adjustment.”
t0“Blueberry Cultivars”
Title
Mi Geon Cheon; Seo Hyoun Lee; Kyung Mi Park; et al. Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer 2021. doi:10.7745/kjssf.2021.54.3.331
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Peatmoss medium had lower soil pH than cocopeat medium.
- Intervention effect Peatmoss tended to have higher available phosphorus than cocopeat.
- Intervention effect Peatmoss tended to have lower exchangeable cations than cocopeat.
- Intervention effect Peatmoss increased Duke shoot number by 16% versus cocopeat.
- Intervention effect Peatmoss increased Spring High shoot number by 92% versus cocopeat.
- Intervention effect Duke yield in peatmoss was 1.9-to 2.7-fold higher over two years.
- Intervention effect Spring High yield in peatmoss was 1.4-to 1.8-fold higher over two years.
- Intervention effect Fruit characteristics were not consistently affected by medium across two years.
- Intervention effect Fruit acidity was slightly higher in peatmoss.