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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| May 31 |
June 1 |
June 2 |
June 3 |
June 4 |
June 5 |
| Arrivals |
9:00 10:00 |
Opening Session |
9:00 9:40 |
Keven Handrek: Container Media: The Australia Experience |
All Day Excursion |
9:00 9:40 |
Raviv: The future of composts as ingredients of growing media |
9:00 10:00 |
Second Poster Session |
| 10:00 10:40 |
Steve Jahrian: Substrates Development in the United States: Past Present and Future |
9:40 10:00 |
Questions and Discussion |
9:40 10:00 |
Questions and Discussion |
10:00 10:20 |
Blok, Shao, Maaswinkel, Vermeulen, Campen, Paternotte: System and climate related Pythium problems in mobile Chrysanthemum growing systems |
| 10:40 11:00 |
Questions and Discussion |
10:00 10:20 |
Carlile: Peat, environmental lobbies and growing media use in the UK 2002-2008 |
10:00 10:20 |
Whestin, Carlile: Co-composting of indigineous Irins wastes and their use in growing media |
10:20 10:40 |
Scoggins, Byrd, Groover: Nutrient deficiencies of heerbaceous perennials: visual symptoms and foliar content |
| 11:00 11:20 |
Coffee |
10:20 10:40 |
Fisher, Huang, Argo: The Lime R series of analytical protocols for lime in container substrates |
10:20 10:40 |
Danaher, Pantanella, Rakocy, Shultz, Bailey: Composting aquaculture waste as a growing medium in the nursery production of tomato plants |
10:40 11:10 |
Coffee |
| 11:20 11:40 |
Blok, Winkel, Chizhmak: Foamed glass granulate as rooting medium for tomato and cucumber. |
10:40 11:10 |
Coffee |
10:40 11:10 |
Coffee |
11:10 11:30 |
Basirat: Comparison of date palm celluloid wastes as a substrate with different commercial growing media for pot plants |
| 11:40 12:00 |
Charpentier: Simulation of heat exchange phenomena and water regime in green roof substrates |
11:10 11:30 |
Arguedas, Lea-Cox, Ristvey, Ross: Issues associated with real-time sensing of electrical conductivity in soilless substrates |
11:10 11:30 |
Chen: Chemical and spectroscopic characterization of organic and inorganic components supporting the microbial population incompost suppressive to plant pathogenic fungi |
11:30 11:50 |
Tong, Jiang, Yu, Wang: The effects of different substrates and fertilization on the growth and photosynthetic characteristics of lettuce |
| 12:00 12:20 |
Altland: Switchgrass as a Replacement for Pine Bark in Container Substrates |
11:30 11:50 |
Krug, Whipker, Fonteno, Frantz, McCall: Incidence of Boron Deficiency in bedding plants caused by drought stress |
11:30 11:50 |
McGinnis, Bilderback, Warren: Vermicompost-amended pine bark provides most plant nutrients |
11:50 12:10 |
Khalil, Alsanius, Hultberg: Interactions between growing media and biocontrol agents in closed hydroponic systems |
| 12:20 13:30 |
Lunch |
11:50 12:10 |
Santos, Fisher, Argo: A modeling approach to quantify nutrient uptake during propagation of cuttings |
11:50 12:10 |
Prasad: Spent mushroom compost as a nutrient source when used as peat diluent |
12:10 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 13:50 |
Jackson, Wright: Wood Particle Size and Peat Amendment in Pine Tree Substrates Influences Microbial Activity and Nitrogen Immobilization |
12:10 13:10 |
Lunch |
12:10 13:30 |
Lunch |
13:30 |
ISHS Working Group Meetings |
| 13:50 14:10 |
Dresboll: Spacial variation in oxygen availability in growing media |
13:10 14:10 |
First Poster Session |
13:30 13:50 |
Wever, Scholman: RHP requirements for the safe use of greenwaste compost in professional horticulture |
14:30 |
Closing Session |
| 14:10 14:30 |
Owen, Altland, Zazirska: Change in aged and fresh Douglas fir bark physical properties over 12 months |
14:10 14:30 |
Letourneau, Caron, Pepin, Naasz, Elrick: Salt movement in different substrates for greenhouse tomato |
13:50 14:10 |
Moyeja-Guerrero, Ramirez-Guerrero: Using phosphogypsum, vinasse and straw for enrichment of manure composting in the tropics |
Departures - Safe Travels |
| 14:30 14:50 |
Qi, Michel, Charpentier: Cyclic hysteretic flow in organic growing media |
14:30 14:50 |
Silber: Mechanisms of pH-dependant MN(II) reactions in growth medium |
14:10 14:30 |
Grunert, Perneel, Vandaele: New applications for the use of compostable grow bag |
| Registration 16:00 19:00 |
14:50 15:10 |
Altland, Owen, Zazirska: Influence of Pumice and Plant Roots on Substrate Physical Properties Over Time |
14:50 15:10 |
Johnson, Fisher, Argo, Vetanovetz: Quantifying the acidity and basicity of fertilizers in container substrates |
14:30 14:50 |
Pantanella, Danaher, Rakocy, Schultz Bailey: Alternative media types for seedling production of lettuce and basil |
| 15:10 15:30 |
Fain, Gilliam, Witcher: Harvesting, Processing and use of 'WholeTree' Substrate in Production of Garden Chrysanthemum |
15:10 15:30 |
Bauerle, Keener, Fausey, Wicks: Stormwater recovery and re-use: Controlling pH in eutrophic water impoundments for optimum nutrient utilization |
14:50 15:20 |
Coffee |
| Welcome Reception 20:00 22:00 |
16:00 19:30 |
Twilight Tour |
15:30 15:50 |
Verhagen: Comparison of the EN 1:5 extraction with the Dutch 1:1.5 and the German VDLUFA method |
15:20 15:40 |
Amha, Bohne, Schmilewski, Picken, Reinikainen: Microbial activity of ten horticuyltural peat types under different incubation conditions |
| 16:30 20:00 |
Twilight Tour |
15:40 16:00 |
Fulford: Composting process improvements, product enhancement and recovery of byproduct heat and CO2 |
| 16:00 16:20 |
Vestberg, Kukkonen, Rantala, Prochazka, Tuohimetsa, Parikka, Yu, Kurola, Romantschuk, Setala: Suppressiveness of Finnish commercial compost against soil borne disease |
| 17:30 |
Symposium Reception & Dinner |
