ISHS Acta Horticulturae 644: International Symposium on Growing Media and Hydroponics
SOIL-LIKE SUBSTRATE FOR PLANT GROWING DERIVED FROM INEDIBLE PLANT MASS: PREPARING, COMPOSITION, FERTILITY |
| Authors: | J.-B. Gros, C. Lasseur, A.A. Tikhomirov, N.S. Manukovsky, S.A. Ushakova, I.G. Zolotukhin, I.V. Gribovskaya, V.S. Kovalev |
| Keywords: | wheat straw, oyster mushroom, worms, hydroponics, fertility, phytomass yield |
| Abstract:
Fertility of soil-like substrate (SLS) made by successive conversion of wheat straw by oyster mushrooms and worms has been evaluated. Soil-like substrate of different degree of maturity has been tested. The most ready SLS provided the higher yields of wheat. It comprised 9.5% of humic acids, 4.9% of fulvic acids and 15.2% of nonhydrolyzable substances. At atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide the soil-like substrate decreased its mass over the vegetation period by 14-21%. The yield of wheat, beans and cucumbers grown on the soil-like substrate was compared to that on hydroponics. | |
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