Claim · model-written summary
Scheduling with K=0.75 saved 67.7% of the recommended irrigation rate.
- Taxon
- Highbush Blueberry Plants
Vaccinium corymbosumt0 - Treatment
- 0.75e0
- Outcome
- water savingse0
- Direction
- savingse0
- Value
- 67.7%e0
- Comparator
- currently recommended irrigation ratee0
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Verbatim
t0“Highbush Blueberry Plants”
e0“An average water savings over the entire season of 57.0%, 67.7%, and 78.5% of the currently recommended irrigation rate of 3.8 liter·day −1 was observed when irrigation was scheduled using K values of 1.00, 0.75, and 0.50, respectively”
Title
Irrigation Scheduling for Young Highbush Blueberry Plants in Arkansas
Patrick L. Byers; James N. Moore HortScience 1987. doi:10.21273/hortsci.22.1.52
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Irrigation treatments did not significantly differ for yield, berry number and size, berry chemistry, or vegetative growth.
- Intervention effect Irrigation treatments significantly differed in initiated flower buds without a trend.
- Intervention effect Scheduling with K=1.00 saved 57.0% of the recommended irrigation rate.
- Intervention effect Scheduling with K=0.50 saved 78.5% of the recommended irrigation rate.
- Recommendation A K value of 0.75 was considered optimal for young highbush blueberry in Arkansas.