The study and application of corn straw organic growing substrate in ornamental nurseries

Author

Liu, Xiaojuan ; Li, Chuang ; He, Ruzhen ; Yang, Qiusheng

Author_Institution

Forestry Coll., Henan Agric. Univ., Zhengzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

27-29 May 2011

Firstpage

212

Lastpage

215

Abstract

In a world of diminishing resources and increasing needs, every opportunity for recycling waste materials must be sought. Corn straw was fermented as a solid substrate for ornamental nurseries. The characteristics (nutrient content, pH and EC) of corn straw fermented substrate (CSFS) were measured and adjusted to adapt to the growth of the testing plants. We designed four kinds of cultivate substrate using three different substrate (CSFS, perlite, slags), the test seedlings are Osmanthus fragrans `Huangchuan jin´. The results showed that T₂ is a better choice.

Keywords

crops; fermentation; horticulture; organic farming; pH; recycling; slag; CSFS substrate; Osmanthus fragrans Huangchuan jin; corn straw fermented substrate; corn straw organic growing substrate; cultivate substrate; nutrient content; ornamental nurseries; pH; perlite; plant growth; slag; solid substrate; test seedlings; waste material recycling; Agriculture; Carbon; Chemicals; Media; Powders; Substrates; Osmanthus fragrans ‘Huangchuan jin’; corn straw; fermentation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

New Technology of Agricultural Engineering (ICAE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zibo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9574-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAE.2011.5943786

Filename

5943786