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Effect of Some Growing Media on Fresh and Dry Matter Accumulation of Cashew (Anacardium occidentale. L) Seedlings Raised in the Nursery
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The nursery experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of growing media on fresh and dry matter accumulation of cashew seedlings. The experiment consisted of two cashew nut types and five growing media, laid out in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The ten treatments replicated three times were: (Ts/J)= Topsoil and jumbo nut as control; (Sd/J)= Sawdust and jumbo nut; (Sd3:Ts1/J)= 3 sawdust:1 topsoil and jumbo nut; (Sd1:Ts1/J)= 1 sawdust:1 topsoil and jumbo nut; (Sd1:Ts3/J)= 1 sawdust:3 topsoil and jumbo nut; (Ts/M) = Topsoil and medium nut as control; (Sd/M)= Sawdust and medium nut; (Sd3:Ts1/M) = 3 sawdust:1 topsoil and medium nut; (Sd1:Ts1/M) = 1 sawdust:1 topsoil and medium nut; (Sd1:Ts3/M) = 1 sawdust:3 topsoil and medium nut. At three months after sowing, the treatments were subjected to destructive sampling, weighed to obtain fresh weight, then oven-dried between 65-80°C for 48 hours, and weighed with a sensitive scale to obtain total, shoot, and root dry weight. Data collected were analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and means separated using Least Significant Difference (LSD) at a 0.05% probability level. The result showed that control treatments Ts/J and Ts/M had the least total fresh seedling weight of 26.10g and 39.0g and total dry seedling weight of 6.90g and 9.60g, respectively when compared with other treatments. Sawdust sole or as mix with topsoil as a growing media can give an improved result of both fresh and dry matter accumulation for both jumbo and medium cashew seedlings than topsoil only.
