Make a choice: A rapid strategy for minimizing peat in horticultural press pots substrates using a constrained mixture design and surface response approach.

ABSTRACT: Peat is the most common used substrate in horticultural seedling production. To reduce peat in horticultural potted plant cultivation systems in general is an obstacle, even within the highly specialized horticultural industry. Next to soil-less cultivation systems as e.g. hydroponics, the horticultural industry is eagerly looking for suitable peat substitutes. The demands on these compounds are high, basically mimicking the physical properties of peat. A 100% replacement of peat for press-pots used in seedling production has not yet been found, and only mixes of peat and substrates exist. Several suitable peat substitutes with different properties are known, that usually are used as a share of a mixed peat-substitute substrate. A constrained mixture design was used to test substrates cont

SUBMITTER: Sradnick A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10389738 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature