In an organic nursery, various bioproducts were used to stimulate plant growth: Fertigo (granulated bovine manure), Micosat, Humus UP (humic acids microbiologically enriched), Humus Active + Aktywit PM (benefic...In an organic nursery, various bioproducts were used to stimulate plant growth: Fertigo (granulated bovine manure), Micosat, Humus UP (humic acids microbiologically enriched), Humus Active + Aktywit PM (beneficial microorganisms), BioFeed Amin, BioFeed Quality, Tytanit, and Vinassa. One of the aims of the study was to determine the effect of these products on the ability of grafted buds of apple and sour cherry cultivars to survive the winter. Losses resulting from the freezing of buds during winter dormancy were calculated as the difference between the number of buds deemed to have taken in autumn and the number of live buds that began to develop properly in the spring of the following year. In autumn, the number of maiden trees obtained in each fertilization combination was also determined in the same nursery. The greatest tendency to die in winter was shown by apple and sour cherry buds in those combinations in which the rootstocks were supplied with a mineral fertilizer with NPK components, and the smallest where humic preparations (so-called vermiculites) were used. The type of fertilizer had an indirect influence not only on the number of grafted buds that died in winter as a result of freezing, but also on the final number of maiden trees obtained from a given area of the nursery.展开更多
文摘In an organic nursery, various bioproducts were used to stimulate plant growth: Fertigo (granulated bovine manure), Micosat, Humus UP (humic acids microbiologically enriched), Humus Active + Aktywit PM (beneficial microorganisms), BioFeed Amin, BioFeed Quality, Tytanit, and Vinassa. One of the aims of the study was to determine the effect of these products on the ability of grafted buds of apple and sour cherry cultivars to survive the winter. Losses resulting from the freezing of buds during winter dormancy were calculated as the difference between the number of buds deemed to have taken in autumn and the number of live buds that began to develop properly in the spring of the following year. In autumn, the number of maiden trees obtained in each fertilization combination was also determined in the same nursery. The greatest tendency to die in winter was shown by apple and sour cherry buds in those combinations in which the rootstocks were supplied with a mineral fertilizer with NPK components, and the smallest where humic preparations (so-called vermiculites) were used. The type of fertilizer had an indirect influence not only on the number of grafted buds that died in winter as a result of freezing, but also on the final number of maiden trees obtained from a given area of the nursery.