Hand watering or sprinkler irrigation is mostly used in transplant produc-tion of tomatoes grown in pots with organic substrates. The flood irrigation on the tables or on the flood floors is applied in the ornamental plant production and more recently and more often in transplants production of the tomato and the cucumber cultivated in cubes of rockwool. The aim of the investigations conducted in 2008-2010 was to determine the influence of the flood fertigation with different concentration of the nutrient solution (the EC = 1,5, EC = 2,5, EC = 3,5, EC = 4,5 mS.cm -1) on the growth and development of the greenhouse tomato transplants cultivated in peat substrate. The transplants were cultivated on heated flood floor. The pots with tomato plants during fertigation were flooded to height of 3-4 cm by period 30 minutes. The kind of fertigation had no significant influence on the growth and development of tomato transplants. The plans obtained from flood fertigation and from hand watering characterized the similar height, thickness of stem, fresh and dry matter and also surface and number of leaves. Tomato transplants fertigated with nutrient solution of EC 2,5 and 3,5 mS cm-1. had best parameters such as the height, ...
Basic greenhouse vegetables in Poland are grown in open soilless system in which an excess of nutrient solution leaking from area of root system is discharged into the ground or drains of greenhouses. Drainage water from the growing slabs is more concentrated than nutrient solution supplied for plants. The aim of research conducted in the years 2010 - 2012 was to determine the effect of drainage water from soilless cultivation of tomato and cucumber on the mineral content in shallow groundwater occurring in objects of cultivation and in their neighborhood. Water samples for chemical analyzes were collected at intervals of three weeks from the piezometers located in greenhouses and adjacent areas within 25 and 300 m from the object. . The results of chemical analyzes of water indicate an increase in the degree of pollution of the waters of mineral nutrients. Ground water directly under soilless cultivated plants were contaminated almost all mineral nutrients that are in media fertilizers. Groundwater in significant quantities from entering nitrogen, potassium, calcium and magnesium. Contamination of ground water in the cucumber crop was at a similar level as in tomato cultivation. Mineral content in the groundwater decreased with increasing distance from the objects ...
In the years 2005–2007, experiments on the influence of drip irrigation and nitrogen fertigation on the yield of the carrot, parsley and chicory grown on ridges and on flat ground was carried out. Irrigation water and nitrogen solution was supplied via drip lines, which in subsurface irrigation were placed at a depth of 50 mm below the surface of the ridges, along the centreline between two rows of plants. In the case of surface irrigation, the drip lines were placed on the surface of the ridges between two rows of plants. Irrigation started when soil water po-tential was between -30 and -40 kPa. Nitrogen fertilizers (100 kg.ha-1) were ap-plied in two doses. The first dose was applied pre-plant, while the second one was delivered by fertigation. In the control treatment without irrigation, the second dose of nitrogen was applied by broadcasting. Both surface and subsurface ferti-gation used in the cultivation on ridges and on flat ground had a significant ef-fect on the marketable yield of carrot, parsley and chicory roots. In case of car-rot and chicory cultivated on ridges higher yield was obtained with surface drip irrigation and fertigation, however in case of parsley no significant differences in the ...
The aim of the study was the monitoring the mineral composition of the water used for fertigation in soilless culture. The study was conducted in the years 2010-2012 and analyzed a total of 360 samples of water from different water intakes of the major areas of vegetable production in greenhouses. The water samples were determined pH, conductivity (EC), the content of minerals and ballast ions. In each sample of water collected, the contents of bicarbonates were determined. During two years of research, an increase in the average content of bicarbonates average 80 mg.dm-3 and pH by 0.17 units on average. The content of total dissolved salts in the course of the observation period decreased. The average value of EC decreased by 0.14 mS.cm-1. The nitrate content according to the water intakes varied over a wide range from 0.05 to 128 mg.dm-3. During follow-up, two-year downward trend ballast ion content such as Cl-and SO42-, and sodium (Na +), there was no change and remained at an average level of 21.0 mg.dm-3. ...
