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Modern Potting Composts

A Manual on the Preparation and Use of Growing Media for Pot Plants

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  • © 1976

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  1. A. C. Bunt

    1. Glasshouse Crops Research Institute, Littlehampton, Sussex, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 3-13
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  2. Why change?

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    Pages 15-18

  3. Alternative materials

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    Pages 19-42

  4. Physical aspects

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    Pages 43-59

  5. Principles of nutrition

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    Pages 60-81

  6. Nitrogen

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    Pages 82-106

  7. Other macro-elements

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    Pages 107-129

  8. Micro-elements

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    Pages 130-149

  9. Compost formulation and preparation

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    Pages 150-173

  10. Liquid feeding

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    Pages 174-204

  11. Irrigation systems

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    Pages 205-214

  12. John Innes composts

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    Pages 215-228

  13. Heat sterilisation

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    Pages 229-246

  14. Chemical sterilisation

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    Pages 247-251

  15. Plant containers

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    Pages 252-259

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 260-277
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The last two decades have seen rapid advances in the technology used to produce pot plants. Glasshouses designed and orientated to give maximum light transmission, fully automatic heating and ventilating systems, carbon dioxide enrichment of the atmosphere, controlled photoperiods using automatic blackouts and incandescent lamps which enable plants such as chrysanthemum to be flowered at any time of the year, mist propagation techniques, chemical growth regulators which control the height of plants, automatic watering and feeding systems, etc.: these are only some of the developments which have transformed pot plant culture. There have also been many changes in the composts and systems used to grow the plants. Mineral soils, which formed the basis of the John Innes Composts, are now either too expensive or too difficult to obtain in suitable quality and sufficient quantity. Consequently the grower has been forced to seek other materials such as peat, perlite, vermiculite, plastic foam, shredded bark, etc. New types of fertilisers, new methods of heat sterilisation and new chemical sterilising agents are also being used.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Glasshouse Crops Research Institute, Littlehampton, Sussex, UK

    A. C. Bunt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Modern Potting Composts

  • Book Subtitle: A Manual on the Preparation and Use of Growing Media for Pot Plants

  • Authors: A. C. Bunt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7936-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1976

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-7938-6Published: 14 April 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-7936-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 278

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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