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Due to depletion of global phosphorus resources, there is an increasing interest in phosphorus recycling products as fertilizer for growing media. However, in contrast to currently used fertilizers, which are almost completely based on calcium phosphates, at least in sewage-sludge based recycling products a remarkably amounts of phosphorus can be bound to iron or aluminum. In previous studies, the CaCl2/DTPA (CAT) and CAL method partly underestimated plant availability of such sewage-sludge based recycling products, which might be due to a low solubility of iron- and aluminium-bound phosphorus in these two extractants. Thus, a pot trial with marigold was done: plants were fertilized with mono-calcium phosphate (MCaP), di-calcium phosphate (DCaP), tri-calcium phosphate (TCaP), aluminium phosphate (AlP) or iron phosphate (FeP) at growing media pH of 5.5 and 6.5, respectively. No effect on plant growth was observed for the three calcium phosphates irrespectively of pH. However, plant fresh weight was reduced if P was applied as FeP and AlP, whereby no effect of pH was found for AlP but for FeP. Against expectations, plant availability was poorer at the higher pH. In contrary to fresh weight, P uptake of plants decreases from mono- to tri-calcium phosphate and with increasing pH. For aluminium and iron phosphates results for P uptake was comparable to those reported for fresh weight. Whereas plant availability of the three calcium phosphates was well reflected by CAT and overestimated by CAL, P uptake from iron phosphate was strongly underestimated by CAT but matches CAL soluble P. Availability of aluminum phosphate was strongly underestimated by both extractants as well as by the combination of CAT and CAL soluble phosphorus. This supports previous findings for various sewage-sludge based products and raises the question of the need of other extractants.
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Heinz-Josef Schmitz,
Ivonne Jüttner,
Dr. Dieter Lohr,
Prof. Dr. Elke Meinken
Extensive green roofs are a key component of urban water management in the future. On the one hand, they should mitigate urban heat islands, for which evapotranspiration has to be maximized, and on the other hand, they are supposed to reduce the risk of urban floods after heavy precipitation events. To achieve these goals, an exact measurement of the water supply status is necessary. In arable soils as well as in organic growing media, dielectric sensors are widely common. However, there is only little knowledge about the suitability of this kind of sensors for mineral and coarse-textured substrates used for extensive green roofs. In the current research four dielectric sensors (EC-5, 10 HS, SMT 100 and Aquaflex TR) were tested using five different green roof substrates. The five substrates were filled in plastic boxes of 80 x 60 cm. Substrate height was 15 cm and the four sensors were placed at half height. Afterwards, white lupine was sown and cultivated up to a height of about 30 cm. For testing the sensors, the substrates were saturated with water and then they have been left to dry out until plants show severe signs of wilt. During dry out, the sensor signals as well as the weight of the boxes were recorded automatically every five minutes. For each substrate six consecutive drying cycles were done. With exception of the Aquaflex TR, for all sensors output signals were closely linear correlated to the weight loss and signal ranges were comparable for the six drying cycles. However, significant differences in output signals of the sensors between the five tested substrates were observed. This indicates a need for substrate specific calibrations. The relation between the output signal of the Aquaflex TR and the weight loss was not linear, but also reproducible and suitable to assess water supply status of plants.
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Prof. Dr. Bernd Hertle
Trials with perennials - what's going on in Germany? (2022) Trial delegates meeting of the International Perennial Associaton at Boskoop .
Sebastian Born,
Hans-Peter Haas,
Viola Stiele,
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hauser,
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hannus
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