Adapting the pour-through medium extraction method to Phalaenopsis grown in sphagnum moss

HortScience

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2167-2170

  Yao, Huan Ying ^a   Chung, Ren Shih ^a   Ho, Sheng Bin ^a   Chang, Yao Chien Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

EC; pH; Press method; Soilless medium; Substrate

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; PHALAENOPSIS; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 57049088068     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.43.7.2167     Document Type: Article

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