Abstract
Accelerating growth of nursery stock can produce marketable plants in less time, thus potentially increasing profits. The primary objective of this study was to compare adventitious rooting and initial growth of cuttings of three perennials species in response to slow-release fertilizer incorporated into the propagation media. The experiment was a split-plot consisting of four blocks, nine nutrient treatments, three species, and four cuttings per replication within each block-nutrient, species treatment. Treatments consisted of Nutricote 13-13-13 Type 180 and Nutricote 18-6-8 Type 180 incorporated into the rooting media, each at 3, 6, 9, and 12 g·L-1, and a control with no Nutricote. Species studied were Artemisia ludoviciana `Valerie Finnis', Gaura lindheimeri `Whirling Butterflies', and Nepeta ×faassenii `Six Hills Giant'. There were of 144 cuttings per species for a total of 432 cuttings. Fertilizer treatments did not influence rooting percentage, and no significant differences were found between the two formulations of fertilizer for top growth, root growth, rooting percentage, or root number. However, regardless of formulation or rate, the eight fertilizer treatments resulted in greater top and root dry weights when compared to the control. Top and root dry weight increased linearly within both fertilizer formulations.
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