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After germination, transport plants to an area with a temperature of 60–70 °F (16–21 °C). Keep under light for at least 12 hours a day. Plant seeds 6 inches (15 centimetres) apart to prevent crowding. Remove deceased plants to promote growth for newly planted ones.
Rhizoctonia solani root rot on corn roots, magnified 0.63X. Damping off can be prevented or controlled in several different ways. Sowing seeds in a sterilized growing medium can be effective, although fungal spores may still be introduced to the medium, either on the seeds themselves or after sowing (in water or on the wind).
Emergence: Seeds have emerged from soil and show the hypocotile with cotyledons still enclosed in the parchment. The cuttings present roots 6–7 cm. long and shoots with 1–2 nodes. Stumps show sprouts with first leaf initials. 1: Leaf development on main shoot of the young plant, and branches of the coffee tree 10: Cotyledons completely ...
Often, Marino says, people have mixed success with using coffee grounds for their plants, which she says could be due to the type of coffee grounds being used.
Coffee filters allow water to spread and fill the pot without over saturating the soil. Oversaturated soil can increase plant stress and make it more susceptible to disease. Getty Images
Ascochyta tarda or Phoma tarda is a fungal plant pathogen that causes dieback and leafspot on coffee and was first observed in Ethiopia in 1954 (Stewart, 1957). It poses a potentially serious threat to coffee crops, but climate change may reduce the prevalence of environmental conditions favorable to its spread.
The first thing recommendation to control the gall nematodes is to plant healthy seeds in area not infested. Nematode-free seeds are important to avoid disseminating the pathogen to other areas. However, if areas are already contaminated, other measures will be needed. Some nematicides are still applied to stop J2 from infecting coffee plants.
This increase in bee abundance results in a direct increase in the pollination of shade trees as well the coffee plants themselves. A study in Indonesia showed that bee species diversity increases fruit set in coffee; coffee plants visited by 3 species of bees had 60% fruit set while those with 20 species or more had 90% fruit set. [7]