Vegetative development of orchids submitted to different macronutrient formulations and fertilization frequencies during the acclimatization phase

• Autor(a) principal: Lone, Alessandro Borini
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Takahashi, Lucia Sadayo Assari, Faria, Ricardo Tadeu, Assis, Adriane Marinho, Unemoto, Lílian Keiko
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Semina. Ciências Agrárias (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semagrarias/article/view/2103
• topic: Nutrition; Orchidaceae; Seedlings production; In vitro propagation.; Nutrição; Orchidaceae; Produção de mudas; Propagação in vitro

The macronutrient concentration, the dose and the fertilizing application frequency affect the vegetative development of the plants in a significant way. The aim of this work was to evaluate the vegetative development of plants of Cattleya intermedia x Laelia purpurata in the acclimatization phase, fertirrigated with different formulations of N-P-K and with different fertilizing frequencies. The formulations of N-P-K (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium), applied to the plants with the irrigation water, were 10:10:10 and 6:6:8, to each seven or fifteen days, in the concentration of 2 g.L-1, during 10 months, mantaining a control group of plants that did not receive the fertilizers. After that period, the following parameters were appraised: length of the aerial part; length of the largest root; pseudobulbs number; number of roots; total fresh mass; pH, and electric conductivity (µS) of the substratum. Considering all parameters, the fertirrigation with N-P-K 10:10:10 in the interval time of 15 days, in the concentration of 2 g.L-1, provided the best vegetative development of the intergeneric hybrid Cattleya intermedia x Laelia purpurata during the acclimatization phase.