EFEITO DE PREPARADOS HOMEOPÁTICOS NA PRODUÇÃO DE MUDAS DE CEREUS JAMACARU

Abstract

The use of homeopathic preparations is not part of productive activities in a semi-arid environment and with native plants of caatinga vegetation. The mandacaru is a cactaceae that in each episode of drought has its population reduced or plants injured by the intense extractivismo which forces to the repopulation and enrichment of areas. For this, it is recommended the use of seedlings from the seeds due to the fact of maintaining the diversity and because they present a growth rhythm, in many cases superior to the seedlings by asexual propagation. At nursery level it is very common for low seed germination and high seedling mortality. The use of Agrohomeopathy within an agroecological proposal and with the preparations of Arnica montana, Chamomilla and Carbo vegetalis in different combinations in a pioneering experiment showed that the Arnica montana + Chamomilla + Carbo vegetalis association promoted higher values of height, diameter of cladodes and length of roots in addition to excellent survival values of seedlings after repicagem being recommended for a large scale production, followed by Arnica montana + Carbo vegetalis. Preparations containing Chamomila and Carbo vegetalis did not reach expressive values.