Wool you look at that? Sheep wool pellets as fertilizer in container-grown crops with short cultivation time
Sheep wool pellets (SWP) is an organic fertilizer that capitalizes an excess waste product of sheep husbandry, providing a way to reduce the environmental impact of wool and recycling it back into the production cycle. With a NPK of 10-0,1-4,5 and other trace elements, the pellets are considered a w...
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SLU/Dept. of Biosystems and Technology (from 130101)
2022
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| Sumario: | Sheep wool pellets (SWP) is an organic fertilizer that capitalizes an excess waste product of sheep husbandry, providing a way to reduce the environmental impact of wool and recycling it back into the production cycle. With a NPK of 10-0,1-4,5 and other trace elements, the pellets are considered a well-rounded fertilizer, but with a long degradation time. To investigate if sheep wool pellets can be used in shorter cultivation times, a container experiment was conducted to test if the pellets have an effect on 5-week cultivation of basil. Treatments were 0 (control), 5, and 10 g SWP/L in peat, compost, and mixed substrate of peat and compost. The result of this experiment indicates that the added amounts of sheep wool pellets does not have any effect on growth or final yield in short duration container cultivation.
Sheep wool pellets might however have other properties that still make it an interesting substrate amendment for crops with short cultivation time, such as providing higher water use efficiency and a swelling effect that results in airier substrates, facilitating better gas exchange. |
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