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Seaweed meal increased emergence percentage.
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e0“Seaweed meal hastened germination and increased percentage emergence, but had little effect on final crop yield”
Title
The effect of soil conditioners on plant growth and soil structure
K. Simpson; S. F. Hayes Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 1958. doi:10.1002/jsfa.2740090308
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Soil-conditioner treatments raised water-stable aggregates.
- Intervention effect Soil conditioners increased crop yields in most experiments but decreased yield in one.
- Intervention effect Soil conditioners delayed crop emergence.
- Intervention effect Soil conditioners increased emergence percentage on clay soils.
- Intervention effect Soil conditioners reduced damping-off at dressing rates up to 0.025%.
- Intervention effect Soil conditioners postponed permanent wilting by up to 16 days on sandy soil.
- Intervention effect Seaweed meal hastened germination.
- Intervention effect Seaweed meal had little effect on final crop yield.
- Intervention effect Under humid conditions seaweed meal induced almost complete damping off of seedlings.