Chipped pine logs: A potential substrate for greenhouse and nursery crops

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1513-1515

  Wright, Robert D ^a   Browder, Jake F ^a  

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

Author keywords

Container media; Pine bark; Pine chips

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NUTRITION; PH EFFECTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SUBSTRATES; TOXIC MATERIALS;

MARIGOLD; NUTRIENT RETENTION; PEATMOSS; PINE BARK (PB); PINE CHIPS (PC);

CROPS;

ALKALINITY; DECAY; FARM CROPS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NUTRITION; PINUS; PLANTS; SUBSTRATES;

ILEX; ILEX CRENATA; PINUS TAEDA; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON OBTUSUM; TAGETES ERECTA;

EID: 22444435290     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.5.1513     Document Type: Article

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