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Research news
New studies, trials and growing technology from universities and research institutes, summarised in plain English, with the trial details and a link to the original study.
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Partly: in the second of two greenhouse tests on 'Albion' strawberry, pot and mix pairings gave 25 to 34 daughter plants, and pot height or volume alone did not explain it.
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In a Polish greenhouse trial, pine sawdust biochar at 4.4% in peat mix gave pepper seedlings 37.2% more shoot dry weight; broccoli shoots showed no significant difference.
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In glasshouse trials, hemp Ferimon 12 survived 3 to 6 days of waterlogging but lost 16 to 48% of seed yield; plants died after 12 days of continuous waterlogging.
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In a US greenhouse trial, petunias in peat mixes with up to 30% milled sugarcane bagasse grew well, and flowered more than the standard mix when phosphorus was cut.
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In an open-field trial in Indonesia, lettuce in the largest of three grow bags gave 170.41 g of shoot per plant, against 36.69 g in the smallest.
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A survey of 34 certified organic strawberry farms on California's Central Coast found that focal plots on diversified farms gave off a median 5.9 micrograms of nitrous oxide nitrogen per square metre per hour, against 22.4 on simplified farms, and the gap was widest after irrigation.
