Nowadays, there is considerable interest in controlling plant height without chemicals. The experiments described below investigated the effects and interactions of forcing air over plants and of water stress.
It used to be thought that day and night temperatures had separate effects on the growth and development of tomatoes and that they should therefore be controlled independently and within narrow ranges.
The growth and flowering of bedding plants can be improved through photosynthetic lighting to supplement daylight during production.
The aim of HDC project FV 348 was to provide an independent assessment by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany of the yield, quality and storage potential of new onion varieties propagated from both seed and sets during 2009 and stored over the winter until May.
Pot-grown carnations are very popular in Japan but are not yet as popular in the UK. One reason may be that their display life in the home is not especially long.
Slugs are a source of persistent economic damage to horticultural crops. They cause direct damage to crops such as Brussels sprouts and lettuce by grazing the wrapper leaves and lower petioles.
Growers might be able to use CO2 more effectively if they had better information about the carbon status of their crops. In the experiments reported here, beefsteak tomato plants were grown with CO2 enrichment in commercial glasshouses in British Columbia. Samples of leaves were taken monthly from...
Glasshouse lettuce is prone to colonisation by aphids, which can become established quickly. Visual detection can be difficult until the populations are already quite large.
Bitter pit in apples is caused by a lack of calcium in the fruit's outer tissues that ought to be easily overcome by spraying with solutions containing calcium. Unfortunately, the apple's surface often forms an impenetrable barrier to these solutions. "Golden Reinders" trees in Spain were sprayed...
Much of the knowledge used to optimise feeding and water management in strawberries grown in soil-less substrates has come from overseas experience and no scientific work has ever been conducted in the UK for the specific needs of UK growers.
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