Impacts of Plant Additive on the Seedling Bricks’ Physical Properties

Abstract:

Homemade seedling bricks, which mixed and suppressed with the plant additive, clay, compost, slow-release fertilizer, can create a good living environment for plant growth, guide the development and growth of plant roots, achieve integration of bricks and seedlings to plant, and the seedlings transplant without time limit. We tested the molding density, shatter resistance, seepage rate and other physical properties of seedling bricks without plant additive, adding 5% and 10% of wheat straw, wheat shells and corn leaves, and the results show that adding plant additive can improve the physical properties of the seedling bricks effectively. The minimum density of the seedling brick contains 10% corn leaves, the minimum shatter resistance of the seedling brick contains 10% wheat straw, and the maximum seepage rate of the seedling brick contains 10% wheat straw.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 518-523)
• Pages: 5401-5405
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.518-523.5401
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Wen Ju Zhao, Li Rong Wang, Hong Ji, Jian Shu Song, Yan Wei Fan
• Keywords: Physical Properties, Plant Additive, Seedling Brick

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