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Effect of Using Waste Nutrient Solution Fertigation on the Musk Melon and Cucumber Growth  

Zhang, Cheng-Hao (National Horticultural Research Institute, RDA)
Kang, Ho-Min (Department of Horticulture, Kangwon National University)
Kim, Il-Seop (Department of Horticulture, Kangwon National University)
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Journal of Bio-Environment Control / v.15, no.4, 2006 , pp. 400-405 More about this Journal
Abstract
Waste nutrient solution(WNS) using non-recycled hydroponics for melon increased contents of $NO_3$-N and cataions, such as, Ca, K, while anions except $NO_3$-N were decreased slightly as the musk melon plants grew. pH and EC of WNS were maintained 5.7$\sim$7.0, 2.0$\sim$2.2 $dS{\cdot}m^{-1}$, respectively. The musk melon plants cultivated by fertigation using WNS showed longer plant height and root length, and higher chlorophyll content than that grown by hydroponics. The fruit weight of musk melon grown by fertigation using WNS were 417.1 g heavier than that cultivated by hydroponics and soluble solids contents of musk melon fruit cultivated by fertigation using WNS was $13.3^{\circ}Brix$, that was $1.4^{\circ}Brix$ higher than that grown by hydroponics. While the growth of cucumber plants and size of cucumber fruits were not different between in fertigation using WNS and hydroponics, total yields and marketable fruit percentage showed more in fertigation using WNS than in hydroponics.
Keywords
EC; non-recycled hydroponics; pH; total yields and marketable fruit percentage;
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