Effects of Different Nutrient Solution Formulations Supplemented with Willow Bark or Juvenile Branches Decoction on Growth of Coleus Plants | ||
| Hortscience Journal of Suez Canal University | ||
| Article 2, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2018, Pages 11-19 PDF (327.12 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/hjsc.2018.58328 | ||
| Author | ||
| Koriesh, E. M Y. M. Abd El-Fattah; I. H. Abo El-Soud M. F. Khalil | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study took place in the research lath-house at Horticulture Department, Suez Canal University, Ismailia. The aim of the study is to compare different nutrient solution formulas and to study the effects of some naturally biostimulants (extract of willow bark or juvenile branches) on some vegetative characters of Coleus blumei plants grown in sand culture. Three nutrient solution formulation as Hoagland solution (A), pot plant solution (B) and solution (C) which designed and formulated in the Suez Canal University were used. The results showed that the nutrient solution C, generally, the more beneficial. It produced the tallest plants and heaviest fresh and dry weights of both above and underground plant parts. On the other hand, the addition of aqueous extract of juvenile branches of willow led to a significant increase in plant height and fresh and dry weights of either above or underground parts for the three nutritional solutions. Data indicated that the diameter of the main stem and the fresh and dry weights of the necked branches were higher in treatments irrigated with the solution C. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Coleus blumei; Hoagland; pot plants nutrient solution; sand culture; willow bark or willow juvenile branches | ||
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