The effects of spent mushroom compost on growth and nutrient contents of pepper seedlings

Year 2017, Volume: 30 Issue: 2, 91 - 96, 01.08.2017

Halil Demir

Abstract

Many growing medium is used to grow pepper seedlings. Of these, the mixture of 70% peat + 30% perlite in the seedling production is commercially widely preferred as the best growing medium. However, spent mushroom compost is also one of growing medium material. This study aimed to investigate the effects of growing media prepared by spent mushroom compost on growth, quality and nutrient contents of pepper seedlings. For this purpose; the fresh spent mushroom compost removed immediately after mushroom production, the aged spent mushroom compost kept under natural conditions for more than six months after mushroom production, perlite, peat, and their mixtures were used as growing medium. The experiment was conducted in the research greenhouse at the Seed Research and Development Center of Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey, and was set up in a completely randomized block design with four replicates. Turbo F1 (Capsicum annuum L.) charleston pepper variety was selected as a plant material. The results showed that the mixture of 70% aged spent mushroom compost + 30% perlite and solely the use of aged spent mushroom compost compared with the mixture of 70% peat + 30% perlite growing medium can be used as seedling medium for pepper in terms of germination ratio, stem diameter, height, leaf number and the macro element contents of the seedlings.

Keywords

Seedling, Perlite, Turf, Vegetable, waste compost

Kullanılmış mantar kompostunun biber fidelerinin büyüme ve bitki besin elementi içeriklerine etkileri

Abstract

Biber fidesi yetiştiriciliği için birçok materyal kullanılır ve bunlardan
% 70 torf ve % 30 perlit karışımı en iyi ortam olarak ticari üretimde
yaygın şekilde tercih edilir. Kullanılmış mantar kompostu da yetiştiricilik
ortamlarından birisidir. Bu araştırma kullanılmış mantar kompostu ile
hazırlanmış yetiştiricilik ortamlarının biber fidelerinin büyüme, kalite ve
bitki besin elementi içeriklerine etkilerini araştırmayı amaçlamıştır. Bu
amaçla mantar üretiminden hemen sonra atılmış kompost, mantar üretiminden sonra
altı aydan daha uzun süre doğal koşullar altında bekletilmiş kompost, perlit,
torf ve karışımları yetiştiricilik ortamı olarak kullanılmıştır. Araştırma
Akdeniz Üniversitesi Tohumculuk Araştırma ve Geliştirme Merkezinde yer alan cam
sera içerisinde tesadüf parselleri deneme desenine göre dört tekerrürlü olarak
yürütülmüştür. Bitki materyali olarak Turbo F1 (Capsicum annuum L.)
çarliston biber çeşidi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonuçları % 70 torf ve % 30
perlit karışımı ile karşılaştırıldığında % 70 açık alanda bekletilmiş
kompost + % 30 perlit karşımı ile tek başına açık alanda bekletilmiş
kompostun tohum çimlenme oranı, fidelerde gövde çapı, fide yüksekliği, yaprak
sayısı ve makro element içerikleri bakımından fide ortamı olarak
kullanılabileceğini göstermiştir.

Keywords

Fide, Perlit, Torf, Sebze, Kullanılmış mantar kompostu

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