Effect
Increased produce quality
Acadian Liquid Seaweed Concentrate treated Dayliliy, cv. Happy Returns, grown in a field had 36% more root fresh weight, 63.4 % more fans/plant, 33.3% more divisions/plant, no significant more shoot fresh weight and no significant higher plants and had 38.9% more plants with 2 divisions when treated with 3000 mg/L of the SWE at flowering as compared with the untreated control.
Trial details
outdoor, unprotected, soil grown, usual cultivation
Canada
Crop
Daylily, Hemerocallis
Trial application
Method
Foliar spray
Timing
1 time at preflowering or 1 time at flowering
Rate
1000, 2000 or 3000 mg/L; 300 L/ha solution sprayed
2006
Effect of Plant Growth Regulators on Propagule Formation in Hemerocallis spp. And Hosta spp.
HortScience
41
651-653
Crop group
