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Water quality
The starting point for understanding irrigation and nutrient supply.
Managing water movement, root access and the crop root-zone environment.
Explore how water moves through soils, substrates and plants, and how irrigation, salinity, oxygen and atmospheric demand influence crop performance.
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The starting point for understanding irrigation and nutrient supply.
How bicarbonate raises alkalinity and influences root-zone pH.
How irrigation water and substrate chemistry influence nutrient access.
Understanding dissolved salts, feed strength and root-zone EC.
How the root medium retains water-associated nutrient ions.
Why roots require oxygen and how saturation restricts respiration.
Using changes in water content to understand crop demand and irrigation timing.
Why total water content does not always equal plant-available water.
How roots acquire water and what limits uptake under crop conditions.
How dissolved salts make water harder for roots to absorb.
How salinity affects calcium transport, growth and crop quality.
How water movement through the plant supports cooling and nutrient transport.
How atmospheric demand influences transpiration and irrigation requirement.