NEW DIMENSIONS IN CULTIVATION SYSTEMS

New cultivation methods using only small quantities of substrate in large-scale plant production are developing rapidly.

There is no area of plant cultivation to which these methods may not be applied: agriculture, foresty, intensive vegetable growing, floriculture and nursery-grown woody plants.
Good quality young plants may be produced from seed or cuttings using such techniques.

A prerequisite for successful growing is a substrate adapted to the cultivation system.
Both physical and chemical substrate properties must allow technical application and ensure plant growth.

Such demands from the substrate present new but solvable tasks to all substrate producers.

Symposium on Nutrition, Growing Techniques and Plant Substrates

W. Fikuart

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1986.178.30