Abstract
In a field study, `Gulfcoast' southern highbush blueberry plants were subjected to irrigation [7.5 L (low) or 30 L per week (high)], mulching (none or 15 cm depth), row height (level or raised 15 cm), and soil-incorporated peatmoss (none or 15 L in each planting hole) treatments, in a factorial arrangement, at establishment. Plants were grown on a well-drained fine sandy loam soil that contained <1.0% organic matter. Plant volume and fruit yield were greater with mulching, high irrigation, incorporated peatmoss, and level beds. Plants grown with the combination of mulching, level beds, incorporated peatmoss, and high irrigation levels yielded 2.4 kg per plant or approximately eight times as much as plants grown without mulch, with raised beds, without peatmoss, and with the low rate of irrigation. Of the four establishment practices evaluated, mulching had the greatest influence on plant growth and fruiting.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Plant volume and fruit yield of blueberry were greater with mulching.
- Taxon
- Southern Highbush Blueberryt0
- Treatment
- mulchinge0
- Outcome
- Plant volume and fruit yielde0
- Direction
- greatere0
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e0“Plant volume and fruit yield were greater with mulching, high irrigation, incorporated peatmoss, and level beds”
t0“Southern Highbush Blueberry”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant volume and fruit yield of blueberry were greater with high irrigation.
- Taxon
- Southern Highbush Blueberryt0
- Treatment
- high irrigatione0
- Outcome
- Plant volume and fruit yielde0
- Direction
- greatere0
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Verbatim
e0“Plant volume and fruit yield were greater with mulching, high irrigation, incorporated peatmoss, and level beds”
t0“Southern Highbush Blueberry”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant volume and fruit yield of blueberry were greater with incorporated peatmoss.
- Taxon
- Southern Highbush Blueberryt0
- Treatment
- incorporated peatmosse0
- Outcome
- Plant volume and fruit yielde0
- Direction
- greatere0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Plant volume and fruit yield were greater with mulching, high irrigation, incorporated peatmoss, and level beds”
t0“Southern Highbush Blueberry”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant volume and fruit yield of blueberry were greater with level beds than raised beds.
- Taxon
- Southern Highbush Blueberryt0
- Treatment
- level bedse0
- Outcome
- Plant volume and fruit yielde0
- Direction
- greatere0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Plant volume and fruit yield were greater with mulching, high irrigation, incorporated peatmoss, and level beds”
t0“Southern Highbush Blueberry”
Claim · model-written summary
Blueberry plants with mulching, level beds, incorporated peatmoss and high irrigation yielded 2.4 kg per plant, approximately eight times the yield of plants without these practices.
- Taxon
- Southern Highbush Blueberryt0
- Treatment
- combination of mulching, level beds, incorporated peatmoss, and high irrigation levelse0
- Outcome
- yieldede0
- Direction
- eight times as much ase0
- Value
- 2.4 kg per plante0
- Comparator
- plants grown without mulch, with raised beds, without peatmoss, and with the low rate of irrigatione0
Verbatim
e0“Plants grown with the combination of mulching, level beds, incorporated peatmoss, and high irrigation levels yielded 2.4 kg per plant or approximately eight times as much as plants grown without mulch, with raised beds, without peatmoss, and with the low rate of irrigation”
t0“Southern Highbush Blueberry”
Claim · model-written summary
Of the four establishment practices, mulching had the greatest influence on blueberry plant growth and fruiting.
Verbatim
e0“Of the four establishment practices evaluated, mulching had the greatest influence on plant growth and fruiting”
t0“Southern Highbush Blueberry”
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