Grevillea robusta A. Cunn. ex R. Br., belongs to the Proteaceae family. Grevillea robusta is native to coastal eastern Australia. In our country, people started to use Grevillea robusta for different purposes as a windbreak, alley cropping, bees feed, fuel wood and for construction. The tree produces an attractively figured, easily worked wood, which was once a leading face veneer in world trade. Due to this all purposes, three polyethylene pots of (8, 10 and 12cm) lay flats diameter and 15cm length and Five different growing media (GM) or soil mix proportion based on volume GM1= (2Top soil: 2 part forest soil: 1 part sand; GM2=2 part Top soil: 2 compost: 1 part sand; GM3=1part Top soil: 2 part forest soil: 2 part sand; GM4=3part Top soil: 2 part compost: 1sand soil and GM5=3 Top soil: 2 forest soil: 1sand=control) treatments were used, which containing different ratios of top soil (TS), forest soil (FS), compost (Co) and sand soil (SS) were collected from local, natural forest environments and highly decomposed compost (the different materials get from locally easily available). The experimental design was a Randomized Complete Block Design with 3 replications under open field conditions at Sinana forestry nursery. Some morphological properties of the seedlings, such as seedling height and root collar diameter growth parameters were measured ever two weeks for four (4) months old seedlings. Finally, this experimental study shown GM3 and GM1 growing media with bothe 10cm and 8cm polythene pot sizes were confirmed appreciate for raising Grevillea robusta tree species to achieve or attained the best seedling quality for successful plantation.
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Growth Media, Pot Size, Grevillea robusta (Silk Oak), Seedling Quality
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Hirpa Abebe, Wondmagegn Bekele, Zerihun Dibaba. (2022). Influence of Growth Media and Pot Sizes on the Early Agronomic Growth Performance of Grevillea robusta A. Cunn. ex R. Br.. American Journal of Environmental Protection, 11(5), 110-114. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajep.20221105.11
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