Water management for the irrigation of containerized production remains a task reserved to a highly qualified personnel. Without proper instruments to determine the actual water needs, nursery crops can face growth losses of 20 to 30%. / Reviewing the different methods that are used in field production, tensiometer have shown the greatest potential of adaptation to potted plants. / Tests on the utilization of tensiometer were realized on two peat-vermiculite substrates, using two types of porous cup (1 bat--standard flow and 1 bar--high flow). The instruments were tested while permanently fixed in the growing medium, and temporarily fixed for three hours in the growing medium. / The results show that the instruments give excellent measurements for normal condition of growth, requiring saturation level between 50 and 100%, and that for both mode of operation. / Preferably, the choice of the instrument should be based on the hydraulic characteristics of the substrate. Little difference has been found using both instrument in the substrate 1, but in substrate 2 however, the high flow porous cups have given better response. The high flow cups have higher porosity and bigger pores that suit better substrate 2, which is made of coarser particles.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.22754 |
Date | January 1995 |
Creators | Lebeau, Benoit |
Contributors | Barrington, Suzelle (advisor) |
Publisher | McGill University |
Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
Language | French |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
Format | application/pdf |
Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Agricultural Engineering.) |
Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
Relation | alephsysno: 001464781, proquestno: MM05577, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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