Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Volume LIX
Written by Petre Sorin, Maria PELE, Elena Maria DRĂGHICI
Cucumbers are one of the basic crops in greenhouse being grown on large areas in both the cycle and cycle II ofculture. It is a very demanding species to the conditions of culture, but if you apply an adequate technology can bringobtained yields with important benefits. In greenhouse is practiced both the culture on soil and soilless culture. Theadvantages of cultivation on soilless consist of an effective monitoring of medium of culture, in particular irrigation andnutrition. Culture substrates are selected such that they do not interact with the nutritional solution. Perlite is asubstrate inexpensive, reusable and ensuring earliness and production increase. The present study was conducted ingreenhouses at Hortinvest Research Centre of University of Veterinary Medicine from Bucharest. Culture of cucumberwas established in the first cycle and used Pyralis hybrid, specific for greenhouse crop. We used three experimentalvariants of mattresses filled with grain of 2, 4 and 5 mm diameter. The best solution to a grain size of perlite was thevariant with 4 mm diameter, ensuring the most satisfying results for early and total production. The aim of the studywas to identify the best solution culture substrate games and recommend the use of crops without soil growers.
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