THE ROLE OF MACRONUTRIENTS FOR CABBAGE-HEAD FORMATION : I. Contribution to Cabbage-Head Formation of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, or Potassium Supplied at Different Growth Stages

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A water culture experiment was conducted to interpret how three major nutrients (N, P, K) contribute to cabbage-head formation when they are supplied in a different amount and at different growth stages. The critical N, P, and K contents in the outer leaves which resulted in a 50% decrease in the cabbage-head yield due to each deficiency were 1.3,0.1,and 0.3% on a dry basis, respectively. The longer the period of each nutrient supply, the higher was the cabbage-head yield. The contribution of nitrogen per unit weight to cabbage-head formation was the highest at the third growth stage (i.e. early cabbage-head development phase) and that of phosphorus and potassium at the first growth stage (i.e. outer-leaf expansion phase) among the four growth stages. The nitrogen supplied for 20 days at any growth stage of the four growth stages did not produce an ordinary cabbage-head but the phosphorus at the second growth stage (i.e. outer-leaf development phase) produced a big cabbage-head comparable to that of the plants receiving phosphorus during the whole growth stage. The potassium supplied at the first or the second growth stage produced a small cabbage-head but failed to produce any cabbage-head at the later growth stages.
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