Revista Caatinga (Jan 2009)

CURVA DE ABSORÇÃO DE NUTRIENTES EM ALFACE HIDROPÔNICA

  • CAROLINA MALALA MARTINS,
  • JOSÉ FRANCISMAR DE MEDEIROS,
  • WELDER DE ARAÚJO RANGEL LOPES,
  • DANIELY FORMIGA BRAGA,
  • LAERTE BEZERRA DE AMORIM

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 4
pp. 123 – 128

Abstract

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To contribute to knowledge about plants of nutritional importance the work aims to study the motion of absorption of nutrients in lettuce in hydroponic system. Set up an experiment in Fazenda Canto Verde, Mossoró, RN, in the design in randomized blocks with four replicates and treatments were made by the six times of sampling: 0, 6, 12, 18, 24 and 30 days after transplanting (DAT). We evaluated the production of fresh and dry weight of shoot, focus and content of macronutrients accumulated over time. The cultivar received 5.12 kg m-2 yield. In terms of concentration of nutrients in the shoot, the nutrients N, P and K showed levels consistent with the literature cited, and the potassium in the nutrient most obviously during the cycle, giving behavior in the concentration over the cycle, so cube. The content of nutrients (mg plant-1) had high value for potassium (641.7 mg plant-1), below normal for phosphorus (31.9 mg plant-1) and according to the literature for nitrogen (295.4 mg plant-1).