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atentar para el valor cultural de las semillas

English translation: Test for PLS (pure live seed) value


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Spanish term or phrase:atentar para el valor cultural de las semillas
English translation:Test for PLS (pure live seed) value
Entered by: Manuel Aburto
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23:12 Jul 19, 2010
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Tech/Engineering - Agriculture / Aplicación de Abonos y C
Spanish term or phrase: atentar para el valor cultural de las semillas
Siembra de semillas

Gramíneas
Utilizar 21Kg/ha. Compuesto de la siguiente manera 2kg de grama carimagua, 2kg de grama melosa y 17 kg de grama simple o Braquiaria Decumbens (Atentar para el valor cultural de las semillas, realizando las pruebas que fuesen necesarias, de manera que se alcance un 100%, pudiendose para esto aumentar la cantidad/ha)
Manuel Aburto
Nicaragua
Local time: 19:47
Test for PLS (pure live seed) value
Explanation:
Better-quality seed should have higher levels of live seed as well as lower amounts of contaminants. But don't take it for granted that your seeding rate doesn't need an adjustment. It's a relatively simple matter to check the seed tag and make the necessary calculations to adjust for impurities. You can do this by calculating what's known as pure-live seed (PLS). You might be surprised at the difference this can make, not only in achieving the optimum seeding rate, but also in finding the best buy.

First, find the percent germination. Then find the percent purity. Multiply them and divide by 100 to find the PLS. For example:

(95% germ. × 80% purity)/100 = 76% PLS

http://www.grounds-mag.com/mag/grounds_maintenance_calculate...

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Note added at 33 mins (2010-07-19 23:45:38 GMT)
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Comparar la descripción de PLS con la de VC:

http://www.semillasmagna.com/mandamientos.html

Valor cultural (VC)= % de pureza x % de germinación. Las semillas con alto VC tienen mayor cantidad de semillas por kilo, de mejor vigor y sin impurezas, ...
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Christine Walsh
Local time: 22:47
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3Test for PLS (pure live seed) value
Christine Walsh
3test the germination rate of the seeds as necessary
Deborah Lockett


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test the germination rate of the seeds as necessary


Explanation:
(this combines the question term with "realizando las pruebas...")

I don't understand the words as such but this seems to be the gist: before acquiring the seed you take a sample, count the seeds and then sprout them in a dish. After sprouting you calculate the percentage of the total seeds that have sprouted. If there are some that have not sprouted you can increase the quantities of seeds stated to make up for the percentage that are expected not to sprout (aumentar la cantidad/ha)

Deborah Lockett
Local time: 02:47
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 207
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31 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Test for PLS (pure live seed) value


Explanation:
Better-quality seed should have higher levels of live seed as well as lower amounts of contaminants. But don't take it for granted that your seeding rate doesn't need an adjustment. It's a relatively simple matter to check the seed tag and make the necessary calculations to adjust for impurities. You can do this by calculating what's known as pure-live seed (PLS). You might be surprised at the difference this can make, not only in achieving the optimum seeding rate, but also in finding the best buy.

First, find the percent germination. Then find the percent purity. Multiply them and divide by 100 to find the PLS. For example:

(95% germ. × 80% purity)/100 = 76% PLS

http://www.grounds-mag.com/mag/grounds_maintenance_calculate...

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Note added at 33 mins (2010-07-19 23:45:38 GMT)
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Comparar la descripción de PLS con la de VC:

http://www.semillasmagna.com/mandamientos.html

Valor cultural (VC)= % de pureza x % de germinación. Las semillas con alto VC tienen mayor cantidad de semillas por kilo, de mejor vigor y sin impurezas, ...

Christine Walsh
Local time: 22:47
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
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