Health and Characteristics of Australian Apple Growing Soils

Table 5

Key soil chemical properties.

Horizon	Soil order/state	n	Organic carbon (%)		Electrical conductivity (EC) (dS/m)		pHH2O		Cation exchange capacity (CEC) (cmol (+) kg^−1)		Exchangeable sodium percent (ESP) (%)
				σ		σ		σ		σ		σ
A1, A11, A12	Chromosol	10	2.22	1.25	0.15	0.11	6.84	0.33	9.20	5.76	3.99	3.35
	Dermosol	14	2.24	0.62	0.10	0.04	6.81	0.46	12.71	9.63	2.51	1.55
	Ferrosol	9	2.62	1.71	0.10	0.03	6.01	0.46	10.93	4.11	0.76	0.92
	Hydrosol	2	2.90	0.66	0.78	0.72	6.95	0.21	7.26	0.09	3.98	3.26
	Kandosol	2	3.43	1.85	0.06	0.01	6.70	0.14	4.67	3.00	2.70	1.73
	Kurosol	9	2.73	0.85	0.12	0.04	6.38	0.54	6.38	6.33	7.81	6.33
	Sodosol	1	1.40		0.31		7.70		7.70		9.31
A2	Chromosol	5	0.87	0.82	0.14	0.09	6.92	0.34	4.31	2.50	8.12	4.17
	Dermosol	2	1.31	0.13	0.07	0.00	6.40	1.41	6.79	7.16	5.46	1.23
	Kandosol	2	0.36	0.20	0.02	0.01	6.40	0.42	0.60	0.22	18.03	6.64
	Kurosol	4	0.51	0.06	0.09	0.07	5.83	0.86	1.98	0.66	10.94	13.77
	Sodosol	1	0.69		0.19		6.80		4.10		23.41
B2, B21, B22	Chromosol	10	0.55	0.28	0.20	0.16	6.42	0.55	9.69	6.49	7.13	4.18
	Dermosol	19	0.63	0.51	0.12	0.08	6.23	0.85	9.61	6.47	4.92	3.00
	Ferrosol	13	0.83	0.67	0.06	0.03	5.46	0.63	7.34	3.24	1.14	1.59
	Hydrosol	2	2.03	1.56	1.15	0.40	6.35	0.49	5.52	3.15	6.27	0.27
	Kandosol	2	0.32	0.01	0.08	0.03	6.60	0.28	0.86	0.12	11.81	1.66
	Kurosol	7	1.50	1.80	0.13	0.07	5.17	0.83	5.98	3.24	3.44	1.41
	Sodosol	2	0.30	0.07	0.26	0.04	6.40	0.14	8.60	1.41	19.60	1.71
A1, A11, A12	NSW	9	2.29	1.76	0.08	0.03	5.43	0.41	12.58	1.85	0.43	0.26
	SA	13	2.16	0.88	0.16	0.11	6.22	0.36	15.42	8.78	5.06	4.42
	TAS	7	2.81	0.82	0.12	0.04	5.79	0.45	10.26	6.47	1.51	0.98
	VIC	15	2.38	0.68	0.20	0.31	5.75	0.74	4.48	1.44	2.86	1.24
	WA	3	3.89	1.53	0.08	0.05	5.67	0.15	5.97	3.10	2.19	1.51
A2	SA	5	0.76	0.46	0.13	0.06	5.96	0.40	6.20	3.55	11.47	7.34
	TAS	3	0.53	0.06	0.09	0.09	5.00	0.90	2.22	0.58	13.57	15.58
	VIC	3	0.69	0.46	0.06	0.02	5.13	0.93	1.92	1.09	6.38	3.22
	WA	3	0.99	1.10	0.10	0.14	5.53	0.60	2.13	2.66	12.66	10.42
B2, B21, B22	NSW	16	0.73	0.64	0.06	0.02	4.84	0.73	7.05	3.02	1.36	1.07
	SA	16	0.61	0.56	0.21	0.12	5.80	0.47	12.40	5.73	9.75	4.94
	TAS	8	1.43	1.67	0.11	0.08	4.83	1.09	8.16	6.12	2.83	1.39
	VIC	12	0.79	0.77	0.30	0.42	5.14	0.80	3.97	2.08	4.80	1.32
	WA	3	0.59	0.46	0.09	0.03	6.07	0.23	1.40	0.95	9.21	4.66