@misc{
author = "Moravčević, Đorđe and Ćosić, Marija and Lipovac, Aleksa and Vuković, Sandra and Vujošević, Ana and Pavlović, Nenad and Stojanović, Milica",
year = "2021",
abstract = "Due to their fast growth, young seedlings have high nutrient requirements. Modern seedling
production systems, particularly those with the protected root system, recommend the increased
frequency of nutrient application during the process. The optimal continuous nutrient availability
is primarily provided by irrigating young plants using the appropriate nutrient solution
concentration. The research conducted at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade
included cucumber seedlings, while its aims were to underline the impact of seedling fertilisation
on the seedling quality and to find the optimal nutrient solution concentration for irrigating
seedlings. The cucumber seedlings (Darina F1) were grown in grow chambers at day/night
intervals of 14/10h and air temperature of 25/18oC. The seedlings were grown in 9-cm diameter
pots (Teku), filled with the substrate TKS 1 (Floragard). After sprouting, the seedlings were
irrigated using different nutrient solution concentrations of Fitofert Humistart fertiliser: 0.1%,
0.3%, 0.6% and 1%. The control variant was irrigated using pure water. The seedling period
lasted for 22 days (after sprouting), after which the seedling quality was determined by measuring
the plant height and stem height, stem diameter, leaf number, leaf surface per plant, as well as
plant fresh weight. The cucumber seedlings grown in the control variant had a statistically
significantly smaller plant height, stem height and stem diameter, a smaller leaf number and
lower plant fresh weight. The seedling variants which were continuously irrigated using only the
nutrient solution had the measured quality parameters which did not show statistically significant
differences between the variants. On the basis of this research, it can be concluded that the
seedling irrigation by means of nutrient solution had a positive effect on the seedling quality.
Including the economic point of view, the recommended concentration of nutrient solution is
0.1%.",
publisher = "University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Agriculture, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Serbia, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (CIHEAM - IAMB) Italy, ...",
journal = "AGRORES 2021",
title = "THE IMPORTANCE OF CUCUMBER SEEDLING IRRIGATION BY MEANS OF NUTRIENT SOLUTION",
pages = "193-193",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_agrospace_6885"
}