Optimization of Plant Growth and Yield Through Innovation of The Materials and Medium Verticulture

Abstract

One of efforts to overcome limited land is verticulture or vertical farming. There were two objectives in this research i.e.: 1) to determine the effective and efficient combinations between planting media and verticultural materials for growth of Pakchoy, and 2) to obtain the best combination between planting models and proportion of N, P and K fertilizers to produce optimal yield of strawberry. First experiment was conducted from October to December 2014 in Gresik. Verticultural materials and media were combined into 12 treatments and three replications for Randomized Block Design. Second experiment was conducted in Batu, where horizontal and vertical planting models were used as first factor and composition of fertilizers (0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% NPK fertilizers) as second factor. Result showed that Carpet (verticultural material) and compost (planting media) produced the highest fresh weight and number of leaf for Pakchoy. No interaction between the farming models and fertilizer (N, P, and K) on area and number of leaf of strawberry. Separately, both horizontal and vertical farming models did not effect on leaf area and number of leaf of strawberry. Application of N, P and K showed significant effect on numbers of leaf, yield and quality of strawberry.

Vertical farming application with several growing media for coffee nurseries

“…Verticulture planting media that had high aeration and water absorption could support the high growth of coffee seedlings. Mixed husk and compost media provide high porosity, husk charcoal contains C and SiO2 which affects P availability, compost provides slowly available macro nutrients [6]. Table 3 shows that from all treatments, both vertical and conventional, there was no significant difference in the growth of coffee seedling stem diameter.…”

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Efforts to Increase Yield of Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) through Planting Medium On Roof Garden by Shallow Bed System and Plant Container Bag System

“…Soil + charcoal has the lowest temperature in comparison with other medium compositions, but it does not make growth and development of the tuber to be more optimal. Types of media influence the fresh weight and number of leaf for crop (Sitawati et al, 2016). It was due to contents of the medium affect on the tuber formation.…”

Pemanfaatan Limbah Plastik Sebagai Media Tanam dengan Metode Vertikultur Hidroponik untuk Memaksimalkan Fungsi Pekarangan di Desa Pringgabaya

“…Beberapa tanaman yang dapat dibudidayakan dengan menggunakan metode hidroponik vertikultur diantaranya yaitu jenis tanaman hias, sayuran, dan buah-buahan (Sitawati et al, 2016;Romadhona et al, 2019).…”