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Effects of weed control periods on initial growth and development of eucalypt

A field trial was carried out in Três Lagoas-MS, Brazil, from January to December of 1997, to study the effects of control and coexistence period of Brachiaria decumbens on the growth of Eucalyptus grandis x Eucalyptus urophylla clones. The experimental design was a complete randomized block design, with four replications. The treatments consisted of different periods of weed-eucalypt association. The periods were divided in two groups. In the first one, the weed-eucalypt coexistence initiated during the eucalypt transplanting, continuing up to 28, 56, 112, 140, 168, 224, 252 and 364 days after it. In the second group, the weed coexistence began at 0, 28, 56, 112, 140, 168, 224 and 252 days after the transplanting and ended 364 days later. The main infesting weeds were Brachiaria decumbens and Spermacocea latifola. The young eucalypt plants were very susceptible to weed interference. To assure normal crop development it was necessary to maintain a weed free period of 140 days after transplanting.

Brachiaria decumbens; eucalypt; competition; reforestation; interference


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