During development and growth, every vegetable plant has certain needs for macro (N, P, K, Ca, Mg) and micro (Fe, B, Cu, Mn) nutrients depending on the stage of development. These quantities cannot be provided during regular soil fertilization, but must be added during vegetation through fertigation and foliar nutrition.
FitoFert fertilizers are in full accordance with different phenophases of vegetable development. Crystal water soluble formulations are primarily used for fertigation, but can be also applied as foliar feeding in combination with micro and secondary nutritient fertilizers. We give our recommendations for growing different vegetable crops, as follows.
Production of vegetable seedlings – for most vegetable plants the time needed to produce seedlings is from 4-8 weeks, during which period the plant has low needs for nutrients, and gets everything necessary for regular development after sprouting until forming of the second set of true leaves from nutrient substrates designed for sowing. For sowing, we recommend Terracult TCS TRAY B granulations of 0-7mm (Terracult TC4 or TC1 Black), with balanced pH values and feed quantity of 1kg/m2, which is the quantity substantial for initial phases of plant development.
Three weeks after sowing, most vegetable seedlings need to be transplanted into Terracult TC 5 granulation of 0-20 mm, which already contains a higher amount of nutrients (up to 2kg/m2) that supply the plant with necessary quantity of needed feed in the given phase of development.
Due to frequent irrigation with low quality water, during production of seedlings there occurs intensive rinsing out of nutrients from the substrate the plant is being rooted in , therefore it is necessary to apply the programme of plant nutrition through irrigation and foliar nutrition in the production of vegetable seedlings.
