Abstract
Organic food production, a dynamic and rapidly growing global activity is still new to Kuwait. Therefore, investigations were conducted during 2006-09 to develop package of cultivation practices for producing organic greenhouse vegetables under Kuwait’s environmental conditions. One of the objectives of these investigations was to select a suitable growing substrate for organic greenhouse vegetable production. A number of combinations of vermicompost, cocopeat, sphagnum peatmoss, perlite, farm yard manure and Avicumus were compared with ready- to-use organic substrate for producing tomato, cucumber and capsicum under greenhouse conditions. Vegetative growth parameters (average plant height, number of leaves, chlorophyll index) and fruit yield per plant were used to evaluate various growing substrates. Overall, substrates containing vermicompost, coco peat, perlite and sphagnum peat moss (2:1:1:1 or 1:1:1:1 v/v) produced significantly better growth, yield and quality in tomato, cucumber and capsicum than other substrate combinations and in some cases were better than ready-to-use mixes and conventional soil based growing system. The results of these experiments are discussed in this presentation.
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Substrates containing vermicompost, coco peat, perlite and sphagnum peat moss improved growth, yield and quality of tomato versus other substrate combinations.
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- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- substrates containing vermicompost, coco peat, perlite and sphagnum peat moss (2:1:1:1 or 1:1:1:1 v/v)e0
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- growth, yield and qualitye0
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- bettere0
- Comparator
- other substrate combinationse0
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e0“Overall, substrates containing vermicompost, coco peat, perlite and sphagnum peat moss (2:1:1:1 or 1:1:1:1 v/v) produced significantly better growth, yield and quality in tomato, cucumber and capsicum than other substrate combinations and in some cases were better than ready-to-use mixes and conventional soil based growing system.”
Claim · model-written summary
Substrates containing vermicompost, coco peat, perlite and sphagnum peat moss improved growth, yield and quality of cucumber versus other substrate combinations.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse0 - Treatment
- substrates containing vermicompost, coco peat, perlite and sphagnum peat moss (2:1:1:1 or 1:1:1:1 v/v)e0
- Outcome
- growth, yield and qualitye0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- other substrate combinationse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Overall, substrates containing vermicompost, coco peat, perlite and sphagnum peat moss (2:1:1:1 or 1:1:1:1 v/v) produced significantly better growth, yield and quality in tomato, cucumber and capsicum than other substrate combinations and in some cases were better than ready-to-use mixes and conventional soil based growing system.”
Claim · model-written summary
Substrates containing vermicompost, coco peat, perlite and sphagnum peat moss improved growth, yield and quality of capsicum versus other substrate combinations.
- Treatment
- substrates containing vermicompost, coco peat, perlite and sphagnum peat moss (2:1:1:1 or 1:1:1:1 v/v)e0
- Outcome
- growth, yield and qualitye0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- other substrate combinationse0
CapsicumNot reportedSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Overall, substrates containing vermicompost, coco peat, perlite and sphagnum peat moss (2:1:1:1 or 1:1:1:1 v/v) produced significantly better growth, yield and quality in tomato, cucumber and capsicum than other substrate combinations and in some cases were better than ready-to-use mixes and conventional soil based growing system.”
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