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NUTRIENTS IN
GREENHOUSE
Presentad By
Homayara Momotaz
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Fertilizer is an organic and inorganic material of natural
or synthetic origin ( other than liming materials) that is
added to a soil supply one or more elements essential to the
growth of plants.
Nutrient:
A nutrient is a substance used in and organisms
metabolism or morphology which must be taken in from the
environment.
Greenhouse
year.
Fertilizer and nutrient in greenhouse related some parameter .They are given
bellow:
Root media
Properties of root media
Root media Characteristic
Root media component
Manure &Compost
Essential element
Structural element
Role of essential element
Deficiency of essential element & other parameter.
ROOT MEDIA:
Root media plays an important role for the cultivation of
crops in pots as well as in the field, known as a growing media for
greenhouse cultivation .
It must serve as reservoir for plant nutrients, hold water in
such a way that is easily available to the plant while providing the path for
exchange of gasses between roots and the atmosphere above the root
medium.
It must also provide support to the plant.
Properties of root media are:
1.Stability of organic matter
2.Maintenance of carbon: nitrogen ratio
3.Keeping desirable bulk density
4.Balance of pH level
5..Higher level of cation exchange capacity
Root Media:
And commonly divided in to 2 groups according to the quantities require to the plant growth.
Without K
Browning symptom in lettue and blossom
end rot in sweet pepper
Calcium (Ca): Deficiency—
Growing points of plant may
die.
Younger leaves are affected.
Root tips die and root growth
is slow.
Tipburn of cabbage, cauliflower,
lettuce; black heart of celery; and
blossom end rot of tomatoes are due
to localized calcium deficiency
within the plant.
These disorders may occur
on high calcium soils.
Calcium deficiency may occur on
acid
and/or dry soils.
Excess—Not known to occur in
Minnesota
B deficiency in petunia
Hydraulic Systems
Quantitative hydraulic pump
Proportional hydraulic pump
Circulating solution
(e.g. Nutrient film technique „NFT“)
Flooding systems
(Single) dripper irrigation (applied to single plants / rows / areas)
Fertigation of
Protected Cultivation
Fertigation control
Parameters:
Water quantity (flow rate, duration)
Fertilizer concentration
Requirements for water and nutrient supply
mainly depending on
plant species / cultivar
plant age / developmental stage
irradiation / temperature
cultural practices● Manual Control
Timer control
Global radiation
Substrate moisture
Transpiration
“speaking plant concept” Methods of fertigation control
Fertigation Concepts
Quantitive Fertigation
Proportional Fe rtigation
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Quantity of Fertilizers
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Quantity of Fertilizers
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Nutrigation
Nutrigation Concept
1. www.extention.unm.edu/distribution/cropsystem/DC5886.html
2. www.netaflim greenhouse.com
3. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_CV265
4 www.campus-geisenheim
5. Book-Greenhouse Technology and Application by Vilas
M.Salokhe
6.Book-Greenhouse Management for Horticultural Crop
Production
7.Thesis paper-Development of a Greenhouse Nutrient Recycling
System
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