Open AccessSome physical and chemical properties of substrates designed for container production of spruce (Picea abies (L) Karst)
Author(s) -
Vesna Vratusa
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
glasnik šumarskog fakulteta - univerzitet u beogradu/glasnik šumarskog fakulteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2217-8600
pISSN - 0353-4537
DOI - 10.2298/gsf0490079v
Subject(s) - picea abies , production (economics) , container (type theory) , substrate (aquarium) , quality (philosophy) , business , stock (firearms) , engineering , botany , economics , ecology , mechanical engineering , microeconomics , biology , physics , quantum mechanics
Efficient nursery production of woody plants, as well as the level of their successful application in urban green spaces, greatly depends upon properties of substrates in which these individuals grow, develop and endure. Furthermore, quality of substrate does not only affect the quality of future product (plant individual or green space), but distinctly determines its price. This element, extremely significant for all countries in transition, thus Serbia as well, commands finding ways of making qualitative, but least expensive substrate. The most logical solution is to use mixtures/substrates of precisely defined properties, composed of domestic components. Results presented in this paper imply that it is possible to create precisely such standard mixtures from domestic resources at relatively low cost, adjusted to needs of particular species, which would ultimately lead to successful, non-expensive nursery production and application of produced stock, both on domestic and foreign markets