Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Volume LIX
Written by Ionuţ Ovidiu JERCA, Sorin Mihai CÎMPEANU, George DUDU, Daniela Vasilica BURGHILĂ
The research aims to present the influence of the type of substrate and the irrigation frequency upon the tomato crop. Withthis occasion the modern irrigation equipment will be tested too. The study was conducted in the research center Hortinvestin the frame of the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest. The biological material usedwas the tomato hybrid 'Cindel’. In order to obtain reliable conclusions we provided the same quality parameters ofirrigation water, using the same technology and culture in all experimental variants. The main goal of this research was toidentify the best irrigation norms on culture in order to achieve a sustainable crop production with a precociousdevelopment. During the growing season we monitored vegetative growth and biometric measurements and determined theduration of each phenological phase, depending on the technique used. Objectives consist in establishing the percentage ofearly production to the total output depending on the culture substrate and to determine the early production on thevariants grown on a substrate made of perlite and coir; determine the total production per plant, the allocation on qualityranks of the total production obtained with the perlite substrate and coir substrate.
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