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PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE OF GAZANIA PLANTS TO GROWING MEDIA AND ORGANIC COMPOST

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Landscape gardening
Ornamental plants

Abstract

This work was carried out during two successive seasons of 2017 and 2018 at the Nursery, Department of Floriculture, Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Gardening, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt to investigate the effect of different growing media (calcareous + sand + peat moss at the rate 70 and 40%) and two types of organic compost (rice straw and sugar beet at 30 and 60%) and their interaction on the growth and flowering of Gazania splendens plants. The experimental design in split-plot arrangement, with four replications, in both seasons. The growing media were laid out in the main plots and sub-plots included the different organic composts. Three pots were used as a plot for each treatment. The means of the individual factors and their interactions were compared by L.S.D. test at 5% level of probability. The obtained results can be summarized as follows;  most vegetative growth characteristics such as: number of tillers (54.74), number of leaves (239.76) and leaves fresh weight (100.29 g) were significantly affected by organic compost at 60% sugar beet with peat moss treatment, flowers characteristics (inflorescences diameter (9.34 cm) and number of inflorescences (14.87), and inflorescences dry weights (0.459 g), responded significantly to the interaction between the different media and organic compost, the highest significant values were obtained by organic compost at 30 and/ or 60% sugar beet and peat moss. Total chlorophyll (56.23 mg/g f.w.), nitrogen (3.42%), phosphorus (0.74%) in the leaves were the highest with 60% sugar beet and 40% peat moss in both seasons. However, potassium (2.85%) in the leaves gave the highest significant values by 60% sugar beet with calcareous soil (40%) for both seasons. It can be recommended that producing high quality of Gazania splendens plants for different decorative purposes in landscaping can be accomplished by growing plants in the mixture of peat moss (40%) with organic compost at rate 60% sugar beet led to improve its characteristics.

DOI

10.21608/sjfop.2020.91393

Keywords

Gazania, growing media, Organic compost, Soil amendments, Sugar beet, rice straw, perennial plants, Asteraceae

Authors

First Name

Ali

Last Name

El-Naggar

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Floriculture, Ornamental Horticulture and landscape Gardening Dept., Fac. of Agric., (EL-Shatby), Alexandria Univ. Egypt

Email

elnaggaraly73@yahoo.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

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First Name

T.

Last Name

El-Kiey

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Floriculture, Ornamental Horticulture and landscape Gardening Dept., Fac. of Agric., (EL-Shatby), Alexandria Univ. Egypt

Email

telkiey@gmail.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

-

First Name

E.

Last Name

Koreish

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Soil and Water Sciences Dept., Fac. of Agric., (EL-Shatby), Alexandria Univ. Egypt

Email

-

City

Alexandria

Orcid

-

First Name

N.

Last Name

Zaid

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Floriculture, Ornamental Horticulture and landscape Gardening Dept., Fac. of Agric., (EL-Shatby), Alexandria Univ. Egypt

Email

-

City

Alexandria

Orcid

-

Volume

7

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

13500

Issue Date

2020-03-01

Receive Date

2020-01-13

Publish Date

2020-03-01

Page Start

11

Page End

26

Print ISSN

2356-7864

Online ISSN

2536-9296

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https://sjfop.journals.ekb.eg/article_91393.html

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https://sjfop.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=91393

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2

Type

Original Research Article

Type Code

328

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Scientific Journal of Flowers and Ornamental Plants

Publication Link

https://sjfop.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE OF GAZANIA PLANTS TO GROWING MEDIA AND ORGANIC COMPOST

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023