Water content of a pine-bark growing substrate in a drying mineral soil

HortScience

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 591-594

  Hanson, Anne Marie ^a   Harris, J Roger ^a   Wright, Robert ^a   Niemiera, Alex ^a   Persaud, Naraine ^a  

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

Author keywords

Container media; Irrigation; Plant available water; Transplant

Indexed keywords

IRRIGATION; SOILS; SUBSTRATES; WATER;

MINERAL SOILS; TOTAL VOLUMETRIC WATER (TVW);

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 2942536702     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.39.3.591     Document Type: Article

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