Development of the press extraction method for plug substrate analysis: Quantitative relationships between solution extraction techniques

HortScience

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 918-921

  Scoggins, H L ^a   Bailey, D A ^a   Nelson, P V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coir; Plug nutrition; Saturated media extract; SME; Soil testing; Soilless media

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXTRACTION; PH;

PLUG PRODUCTIONS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 0034825480     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.36.5.918     Document Type: Article

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