Abstract
Abstract Ficus benjamina were grown in potting media containing various combinations of Florida sedge peat, builder’s sand, and shredded portions of Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T. Blake and irrigated either 2 or 4 times per week. Eight months after initiation of experiment, plants were sleeved and placed in dark coolers maintained at 13° ± 1°C and 85% ± 10% RH for 4 weeks. After removal from coolers, plants were placed in rooms with irradiance of 15 μmol s -1 m -2 , temperature of 25° ± 2° and 60% ± 10% RH. Plant height was not affected by treatment. Plant grade, fresh weight and root grade decreased with an increase in shredded Melaleuca bark and wood. Plants watered 2 times/week had less than one-half the leaf drop of plants watered 4 times/week. As the percentage of shredded Melaleuca bark and wood decreased, pH and the percentage of noncapillary pore space decreased, and soluble salts and capillary pore space increased. An increase in sand increased pH, soluble salts, bulk density, and decreased cation exchange capacity and percent capillary pore space.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Plant height of Ficus benjamina was not affected by the potting media combinations.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjamina
Ficus benjaminae0 - Treatment
- potting media containing various combinationse0
- Outcome
- Plant heighte1
- Direction
- not affectede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ficus benjamina were grown in potting media containing various combinations of Florida sedge peat, builder’s sand, and shredded portions of Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T. Blake and irrigated either 2 or 4 times per week”
e1“Plant height was not affected by treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant grade, fresh weight and root grade of Ficus benjamina decreased with an increase in shredded Melaleuca bark and wood.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminae0
- Treatment
- increase in shredded Melaleuca bark and woode2
- Outcome
- Plant grade, fresh weight and root gradee2
- Direction
- decreasede2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ficus benjamina were grown in potting media containing various combinations of Florida sedge peat, builder’s sand, and shredded portions of Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T. Blake and irrigated either 2 or 4 times per week”
e2“Plant grade, fresh weight and root grade decreased with an increase in shredded Melaleuca bark and wood”
Claim · model-written summary
Ficus benjamina plants watered 2 times per week had less than one-half the leaf drop of plants watered 4 times per week.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminae0
- Treatment
- watered 2 times/weeke3
- Outcome
- leaf drope3
- Direction
- less than one-halfe3
- Value
- one-halfe3
- Comparator
- plants watered 4 times/weeke3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ficus benjamina were grown in potting media containing various combinations of Florida sedge peat, builder’s sand, and shredded portions of Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T. Blake and irrigated either 2 or 4 times per week”
e3“Plants watered 2 times/week had less than one-half the leaf drop of plants watered 4 times/week”
Claim · model-written summary
As the percentage of shredded Melaleuca bark and wood decreased, pH and the percentage of noncapillary pore space of the potting media decreased.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminae0
- Treatment
- percentage of shredded Melaleuca bark and woode4
- Outcome
- pH and the percentage of noncapillary pore spacee4
- Direction
- decreasede4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ficus benjamina were grown in potting media containing various combinations of Florida sedge peat, builder’s sand, and shredded portions of Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T. Blake and irrigated either 2 or 4 times per week”
e4“As the percentage of shredded Melaleuca bark and wood decreased, pH and the percentage of noncapillary pore space decreased”
Claim · model-written summary
As the percentage of shredded Melaleuca bark and wood decreased, soluble salts and capillary pore space of the potting media increased.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminae0
- Treatment
- percentage of shredded Melaleuca bark and woode5
- Outcome
- soluble salts and capillary pore spacee5
- Direction
- increasede5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ficus benjamina were grown in potting media containing various combinations of Florida sedge peat, builder’s sand, and shredded portions of Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T. Blake and irrigated either 2 or 4 times per week”
e5“As the percentage of shredded Melaleuca bark and wood decreased, pH and the percentage of noncapillary pore space decreased, and soluble salts and capillary pore space increased”
Claim · model-written summary
An increase in sand increased pH, soluble salts and bulk density of the potting media.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminae0
- Treatment
- increase in sande6
- Outcome
- pH, soluble salts, bulk densitye6
- Direction
- increasede6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ficus benjamina were grown in potting media containing various combinations of Florida sedge peat, builder’s sand, and shredded portions of Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T. Blake and irrigated either 2 or 4 times per week”
e6“An increase in sand increased pH, soluble salts, bulk density, and decreased cation exchange capacity and percent capillary pore space”
Claim · model-written summary
An increase in sand decreased cation exchange capacity and percent capillary pore space of the potting media.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminae0
- Treatment
- increase in sande6
- Outcome
- cation exchange capacity and percent capillary pore spacee6
- Direction
- decreasede6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ficus benjamina were grown in potting media containing various combinations of Florida sedge peat, builder’s sand, and shredded portions of Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T. Blake and irrigated either 2 or 4 times per week”
e6“An increase in sand increased pH, soluble salts, bulk density, and decreased cation exchange capacity and percent capillary pore space”
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