Humic fertilizers are natural organic preparations, humates that do not change the ecological purity for the worse, as well as the taste of our crop. Any representative of the flora needs proper, high-quality care. And if you want your pets to please you with even greater beauty or an increased yield, then you should take care of high-quality feeding. Natural organic is certainly best suited. We’ll talk about this.
Humic fertilizers theory and practice of their application
This type of fertilizer has a wide range of applications, high efficiency, proven by many agricultural enterprises, which began to use humates in the cultivation of vegetables and fruits in order to improve the quantity and quality of their products.
It is worth everyone to think about using this type of fertilizing on personal subsidiary plots, gardens, vegetable gardens.
Humic fertilizers can be used:
- When growing flowers, ornamental plants:
- for rooting cuttings, treating tubers, bulbs, as a stimulator of the development of the root system;
- to relieve stress in plants, their nutrition after transplantation;
for feeding adult specimens during growth, flowering.
- When growing seedlings:
- for soaking seeds before sowing;
- for foliar, as well as root dressing seedlings.
- When growing vegetables and berries:
- for root and foliar top dressing of plants at all periods of development;
- to relieve stress in plants after adverse weather conditions (frost, drought);
- to protect plants from bacterial, fungal diseases.
- When caring for a orchard:
- for feeding or relieving stress in seedlings during transplantation;
- to improve the quality of the soil of the trunk circles.
- When cultivating the soil after harvest, in preparation for new sowing.
- As an accelerator of compost ripening.
Thus, it becomes clear that the use of humic fertilizers is possible at all stages of the formation, development, growth of plants. This makes them unique, fully demanded when growing almost any crops in gardens.
During the dilution of the concentrate, it is necessary to clearly observe the proportions that are necessarily indicated on the packages or in the attached instructions. Never exceed the dosage: an increase in permissible norms can inhibit growth or fruiting. Depending on the type of plant and the necessary manipulation with it, the concentration of the solution varies greatly. It should be remembered that the finished solution of the drug is stored for no more than a week.
The use of humic fertilizers is especially appropriate in areas with sharp changes in temperature, changing meteorological conditions, since the drug increases the resistance of plants to environmental factors, as well as makes perennials, shrubs, young trees more winter-hardy.
The composition of humic fertilizers
Most gum gum concentrates are available in liquid form, which is very convenient for use. As a rule, it is a slightly viscous liquid, dark brown in color, with a mildly pronounced odor. The balanced composition of the drug contains nutrients of natural origin. After all, humates are produced on the basis of organic raw materials. These are manure or vegetable composts, sapropel, brown coal, silt.
Natural organic compounds - humic acids (humic and fulvic acids) are isolated from the above products of plant, microbial or animal origin by exposure to alkali solutions.
The main unique composition of fertilizers is:
- humic acids
- fulvic acids,
- amino acids (arginine, histidine, b-phenylallonin, proline, etc.).
Useful microorganisms (ammonifiers), fungi, as well as a complex of macro- and microelements (magnesium, potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, phosphorus, nitrogen, zinc, etc.) are added to many formulations.
Types of Humic Fertilizers
The classification is quite extensive. Among humic products there are growth stimulants, top dressing, compost ripening accelerators, soil fortifiers. For example, Gumiomi Compostin helps to accelerate the compost maturation. Enriches it with nutrients, improves microflora, which accelerates the maturation of compost. This organomineral gumiomi fertilizer is based on high nitrogen chicken manure. With the help of beneficial bacteria, it treats compost or soil from fungal diseases, destroys harmful microorganisms, reduces the content of heavy metals or toxic substances.
Liquid Humic Fertilizers
Liquid fertilizer is a natural immunomodulator, a stimulator of the formation, growth, development of a plant, an anti-stress agent, as well as complex feeding. Example: Edogum SM, Living Force, Garden of Miracles, Ecorost, Delight, etc. It is used at all stages of growth, from seed treatment before sowing to tillage after harvesting. Suitable for organic farming.
Soft gumi potash fertilizers effectively act as stimulants of root formation and growth. They are used for presowing treatment of seeds, tubers, bulbs, and grafting. For example, an organo-mineral fertilizer with GUMI-OMI microelements for bulbous, bulbous flowers can be applied when planting in a hole or used for fertilizing irrigation.
Any gumi potash fertilizer also has a wide spectrum of action if micronutrients are included in its composition. In addition to stimulating the growth of the root system, the product of agrochemistry enhances the plant's immunity.
Gumi-20 Potash, Gumi-20M Potash, Humate Potassium liquid peat, Humate Potassium +7 as well as others are very famous.
Peat and humic fertilizers
These fertilizers are based on peat.
One of them - Flora-S - is used in the processing of seeds (seeds, bulbs, root crops, roots of seedlings, grass plants), for root or foliar feeding of vegetable crops, fruit trees, shrubs, vineyards.
Peat-humic preparation Gumimaks - an excellent tool for caring for indoor floral, ornamental plants. It contains folic and humic acids. Stimulates the growth of the root system, the aerial parts of plants, rejuvenates old plants, promotes lush, long flowering.
The updated preparation Fitop-Flora-S (dry peat-humic fertilizer) fights putrefactive, pathogenic microflora in the soil, is used in the processing of cellars, storages, even harvested crops. It is believed that this fertilizer, based on peat, is the most useful, effective in agricultural production.
The effectiveness of humic fertilizers
Gumi fertilizer is an organic product of agricultural chemistry, which not only nourishes plants, stimulates their growth. Efficiency consists in the fact that they improve the composition and structure of the soil, making heavy soils less burdensome to cultivate, and light soils get improved moisture capacity.
Improving the microbiological composition of the soil occurs due to the large number of amino acids, vitamins, beneficial microorganisms. The earth after application is saturated with nitrogen, phosphorus. With regular use, the growth of humus in the soil is noticeable, which allows it to reduce its density, improve air and water permeability, increase photosynthesis processes, and facilitate the respiration of plant cells.
The greatest influence of gumi fertilizers is on root crops (beets, carrots, radishes, onions, etc.). Tomatoes, cabbage, eggplant, peppers, pumpkin, grain crops respond well to the drug. When applied, the growth, the ripening period of the fruits is accelerated, their size, palatability increase, the amount of nitrates decreases, and the sugars in the composition increase.
A weak effect of the drug is on sunflower, bean, and bean species due to the high content of protein in them, as well as rape, flax.
Whereas melons (watermelons, melons) do not need humus fertilizing at all.
When using gum complexes in fruit orchards, the vitamin C content in fruits increases, the resistance of trees and bushes to pathogenic bacteria, including fungal diseases, increases.
All this happens because the mixture of the components of the drug converts nutrients that are already in the soil into substances easily digestible by plants.
You should know that annuals respond better to gum nutrition at the beginning of development (seedling age), during fruiting, and trees and shrubs - when transplanted when the root system is injured. The same applies to perennial decorative as well as fruit crops.
For better performance mineral-humic fertilizers apply about 3 times per seasonalternating with spraying or root dressing.
Gumi concentrates can be used in conjunction with other compounds (nitrogen, potash or organic).
But it must be remembered that mixing with phosphorus forms of top dressing, with potassium nitrate is not allowed! Hardly soluble compounds may form that will harm the flora.
I would like to note that under greenhouse conditions, gumi formulations are more effective than when processing open ground.
Quite a lot of advantages this wonderful organic concentrate has. But there is also a minus or a drawback in the use of the drug. The drug does not affect fertile black soil. At the same time, its application is not denied, since the humic products of agrochemistry help such lands maintain their fertility.
As for the harmful effects on human health, it is not. It’s not for nothing that humates are called organic. Rather, the benefit lies in the fact that products that receive the necessary stock of microelements, acids, when grown, become more environmentally friendly. At the same time, the nitrate content decreases, the useful properties of the product increase, saturating, for example, fruits with vitamin C.
Humic fertilizers do not bring harm to humans. This is the most important plus when planting!
Posted by: Anna Pasechnik