Substratos e profundidades de semeadura na produção de mudas de amor-perfeito : viola tricolor L.

Abstract

Floriculture is an agricultural activity boom. Besides having a strong economic role, performs duties partners, cultural and ecological. Among the flowers and ornamental plants produced this pansies, which is widely used in the South, because it is adapted to colder regions. Successful production from seeds of ornamental plants or any other culture, depends on several factors, among which is the use of good quality seeds and choices, the best substrate and container. As the objective was to establish methodologies for the force of testing in perfect love seeds, to assess accurately the quality of different batches, based on the sowing depth, comparing different substrates, and so comparing test existing ones to culture. The work will be conducted in the Didactic Laboratory LDAS Seed Analysis at the “Faculdade de Agronomia Eliseu Maciel (FAEM), Universidade Federal de Pelotas”. Two lots of pansy seeds were used. For assessing the quality of pansy seeds were used the tests to determine the water content, weight of a thousand seeds, germination, first count of germination, accelerated aging, seedling emergence in sand and seedling emergence on different substrates. Post-emergence was evaluated emergency speed index, shoot length, dry matter weight of the aerial part, number of leaves. The experimental design was completely randomized. The data were submitted to analysis of variance by F test and the means were compared by Tukey test at 5% probability. he sowing depth most suitable for the development of pansy were 1.5 and 2 cm. And the substrate showed the best results was the S10 beifort®.