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field capacity

NOUN
  1. the maximum amount of water that a particular soil can hold

How To Use field capacity In A Sentence

  • Soil water was restored weekly to field capacity.
  • It can also be grown without inundation, soil-moisture being held at near field capacity, in which case it is generally referred to as upland rice. Chapter 7
  • The soil was maintained at 60% field capacity for 6-8 weeks, until plants produced 3-4 new stems from the perennating structure.
  • During the experiment, these plants were irrigated by sprinklers to field capacity every two days.
  • This method works if the water reservoir in the top 5 feet of soil is at or near field capacity at planting time.
  • Nutrients were thoroughly mixed into the substrate, water was added to field capacity and the pots were incubated for 10 d in a glasshouse before seeds were planted.
  • Both are major forces for defense purposes, at the same time with small - scale field capacity.
  • After the wet start, and now an increasingly wet end to the season, blackleg is being found more widely, and as soils approach field capacity more rots will appear.
  • Field capacity is a property of a unit volume of soil.
  • The pots were placed outdoors and artificially watered as necessary to keep at approximate field capacity.
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