Abstract
Bagasse is the fibrous material remaining after removing the sucrose, water, and other impurities (filter mud) from the milable sugarcane. Louisiana sugarcane mills use a portion of the sugarcane bagasse for fuel producing over 20,411 mt of sugarcane bagasse ash (SBA) as a by-product. The purpose of this research was to investigate the use of SBA as an amendment to soilless planting media for the production of vegetable seedlings. The SBA was combined by volume with a commercial soilless growing media into 5 combinations (0%:100%, 25%:75%, 50%:50%, 75%:25%, and 100%:0%, SBA and growing media, respectively). Squash var. ‘Straightneck’ and cantaloupe var. ‘Magnum Hybrid Melon’ were planted in each of the 5 different planting mixtures. The research indicates that the addition of SBA can enhance squash and cantaloupe seedling growth depending on the percentage of the ash added to the growth media. Squash plant stalk lengths and total plant fresh weights (stalk, leaves, tops, roots, and total plant) overall responded best at the 75% SBA. Squash dry weights were consistently greater when SBA was added to the soilless media compared to no SBA. The 25% and 50% SBA media produced the greatest cantaloupe leaf fresh weights. Cantaloupe leaf dry weights followed a similar trend, where the 25% and 50% SBA media produced greater plant weights with lesser yields observed at the 75% and 100% SBA levels. This data suggests that the 75% SBA and 25% SBA were certainly suitable potting media combinations for squash and cantaloupe seedling production, respectively.
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Claim · model-written summary
Squash stalk lengths and total plant fresh weights responded best at 75% SBA.
- Taxon
- Squashe1
- Treatment
- 75% SBAe1
- Outcome
- stalk lengths and total plant fresh weightse1
- Direction
- responded beste1
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e1“Squash plant stalk lengths and total plant fresh weights (stalk, leaves, tops, roots, and total plant) overall responded best at the 75% SBA”
Claim · model-written summary
Squash dry weights were consistently greater when SBA was added to the soilless media than with no SBA.
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e2“Squash dry weights were consistently greater when SBA was added to the soilless media compared to no SBA”
Claim · model-written summary
The 25% and 50% SBA media produced the greatest cantaloupe leaf fresh weights.
- Taxon
- cantaloupe
Cucumis melo var. cantalupoe3 - Treatment
- 25% and 50% SBA mediae3
- Outcome
- leaf fresh weightse3
- Direction
- greateste3
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e3“The 25% and 50% SBA media produced the greatest cantaloupe leaf fresh weights”
Claim · model-written summary
The 25% and 50% SBA media produced greater cantaloupe plant weights.
- Taxon
- CantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupoe4
- Treatment
- 25% and 50% SBA mediae4
- Outcome
- plant weightse4
- Direction
- greatere4
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e4“Cantaloupe leaf dry weights followed a similar trend, where the 25% and 50% SBA media produced greater plant weights”
Claim · model-written summary
Cantaloupe yields were lesser at the 75% and 100% SBA levels.
- Taxon
- CantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupoe4
- Treatment
- 75% and 100% SBA levelse5
- Outcome
- yieldse5
- Direction
- lessere5
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Verbatim
e4“Cantaloupe leaf dry weights followed a similar trend, where the 25% and 50% SBA media produced greater plant weights”
e5“with lesser yields observed at the 75% and 100% SBA levels”
Claim · model-written summary
The 75% SBA medium is a suitable potting media combination for squash seedling production.
Verbatim
e6“the 75% SBA and 25% SBA were certainly suitable potting media combinations for squash and cantaloupe seedling production”
Claim · model-written summary
The 25% SBA medium is a suitable potting media combination for cantaloupe seedling production.
- Taxon
- cantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupoe6
- Treatment
- 25% SBAe6
- Outcome
- suitable potting media combinationse6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e6“the 75% SBA and 25% SBA were certainly suitable potting media combinations for squash and cantaloupe seedling production”
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