Claim · model-written summary
Plant height and canopy volume were greater with MSW compost than with peat amendment.
- Taxon
- blueberrye0
- Treatment
- MSW composte1
- Outcome
- Plant height and canopy volumee1
- Direction
- greatere1
- Comparator
- peat amendmente1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“southern highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum interspecific hybrid) cultivars were planted at a density of 10,000 plants per ha in southwest Florida”
e1“Plant height and canopy volume were consistently greater for plants grown in the MSW compost compared with the peat amendment, but there were no differences in leaf retention or vegetative budbreak between the two soil amendments”
Title
R. K. Reeder; T. A. Obreza; R. L. Darnell The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 1998. doi:10.1080/14620316.1998.11511029
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Increasing N rates increased plant canopy volume, leaf retention and the rate of new vegetative budbreak of blueberry in southwest Florida.
- Intervention effect Leaf N of blueberry increased as N rate increased.
- Intervention effect Leaf Ca of blueberry decreased as N rate increased.
- Intervention effect N rates had no consistent effect on soil nutrient concentrations.
- Intervention effect MSW compost increased soil P, Ca and Mg concentrations compared with peat.
- Intervention effect MSW compost increased soil Cu, Fe and Mn concentrations compared with peat.
- Intervention effect MSW compost increased soil Zn concentration compared with peat.
- Intervention effect MSW compost had no consistent effect on leaf nutrient concentrations compared with peat.
- Intervention effect Leaf retention and vegetative budbreak did not differ between MSW compost and peat amendment.
- Observation Plants in the non-dormant system showed no deleterious growth effects.
- Recommendation Establishing a blueberry planting in a warm winter climate is feasible under the described conditions.