Effect of different water content, sample number, and soil type on determination of soil water using a home microwave oven

Tan, C. S.

doi:10.1080/00380768.1992.10416504

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“…Drought stress may have contributed to reduced scion vigor in the earlier study conducted on Fox sand, characterized as having low water-holding capacity, low organic matter content (0.2%), and low clay (2.7%) content (Layne et al, 1986). In the present study, the Brookston clay loam had a higher waterholding capacity, higher organic matter(1.5%), and higher clay (28.1%) content than Fox sand (Tan, 1991). Therefore, drought stress was less frequent, and the dwarfing effect of Siberian C was not apparent.…”

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Prunus Rootstock Affect Long-term Orchard Performance of `Redhaven' Peach on Brookston Clay Loam

Layne¹

1994

HortSci

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Performance of `Redhaven' peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch.] propagated on nine experimental Prunus rootstock was evaluated over 8 years beginning in 1984, in a randomized complete-block experiment with 10 replications on a Brookston clay loam soil type near Harrow, Ont. This experiment was part of an interregional NC-140 peach rootstock experiment. Significant rootstock-induced effects were noted for increase in trunk cross-sectional area, cumulative tree height and spread, cumulative number of root suckers, yield, average fruit weight, yield efficiency, winter injury, cold hardiness, and tree survival. None of the clonally propagated rootstock gave satisfactory overall performance. All trees on GF655-2, 80% on GF677, 60% Self-rooted, and 50% on GF1869 were dead by the eighth year. In addition, suckering was a major problem on GF1869 and a moderate problem on GF655-2. `Citation' induced the most scion dwarfing but had the lowest yields and low yield efficiency. When yield, yield efficiency, fruit size, and tree mortality were considered together, the four peach seedling rootstock performed better than the other Prunus rootstocks and were ranked as follows: Siberian C, Halford, Bailey, and Lovell. Of these, the first three could be recommended with the most confidence to commercial growers who grow peaches on fine-textured soils in northern regions.

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Prunus Rootstock Affect Long-term Orchard Performance of `Redhaven' Peach on Brookston Clay Loam

Layne¹

1994

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“…The time needed to dry soil samples in the microwave oven at a specific power setting would depend on the amount of moisture present. However, in most practical cases, materials can be dried to a constant weight at a high power setting within less than 30 minutes (Tan (1992), Kevin (2002), Daod(2012), Chung (2008), Cormick (2015), Breckling(2016), Jalilian (2017)). The standard procedure with the conventional oven saves a considerable amount of time.…”

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“…The time needed to dry soil samples in the microwave oven at a specific power setting would depend on the amount of moisture present. However, in most practical cases, materials can be dried to a constant weight at a high power setting within less than 30 minutes (Tan (1992) that moisture contents could be obtained within 20 minutes instead of 24 hours. Johri (2020) stated that moisture contents could be obtained within 20 minutes at thermal power (800 W).…”

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Ground Truth Soil Moisture Estimation Along With Minimal Drizzling Time

Chamoli¹,

Prakash²,

Vidyarthi³

et al. 2021

ITII

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The aim of this study was to determine the soil moisture along with minimal drizzling time using two methods using hot air convection oven (HA-CO) and microwave oven (MO) to find out the best method for estimation the soil moisture. The convection oven method was considered as the most accurate method to determine the soil moisture; hence, we utilized this method as source for assessing the results. The experiment was conducted in lab which was completely based on random 110 dry soil samples weight of approximately 100 gram from the bare land. In convection oven method we used 105 °C for 24 hours and in microwave oven method we used different thermal power (180, 360, 540, 720 and 900 watt) for different time duration. The result based on the RMSE between soil moisture retrieval from hot air convection oven method and soil moisture retrieval from microwave oven method. 720 watt takes 15 minutes to dry the soil while 900 watt takes 8 minutes; both are gives approximately same results as convection oven method, which takes 24 Hours. Therefore for retrieval of soil moisture we can utilize the microwave oven method at 900 watt power. The low RMSE for 900 watt is 0.51% shows that the microwave oven method is most convenient, time saving and safe method for retrieval of soil moisture.

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Using ultrasonic and microwave devices to dry and disperse soils with high Fe2O3 content from Brazil

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Effect of different water content, sample number, and soil type on determination of soil water using a home microwave oven

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Prunus Rootstock Affect Long-term Orchard Performance of `Redhaven' Peach on Brookston Clay Loam

Prunus Rootstock Affect Long-term Orchard Performance of `Redhaven' Peach on Brookston Clay Loam

Ground Truth Soil Moisture Estimation Along With Minimal Drizzling Time

Using ultrasonic and microwave devices to dry and disperse soils with high Fe2O3 content from Brazil

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