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When growing vegetables, remember that the plants use minerals from the soil. They need to be replenished next year. Among the many fertilizers, the unique Pekacid based on a phosphorus and potassium compound has recently appeared on our market. It is used by adding it to hard water with drip irrigation. The uniqueness of the fertilizer is that it brings unconditional benefits to plants and at the same time facilitates their care. The composition of Pekacid helps to cleanse the irrigation system, through which it is supplied to the gardens.
Why vegetable growers prefer Pekacid
This new phosphate-potassium fertilizer was developed in Israel, where vegetables can only be grown using drip irrigation. Using deposits of phosphorus from the Negev Desert, as well as minerals: potassium, magnesium, bromine and others, mined at the bottom of the Dead Sea, scientists have developed a unique formula of a useful complex. For use on the domestic market, the drug Pekacid was registered in 2007.
Solving the problem of water hardness
Most of the water for the normal development of vegetable crops is required during the flowering period, the formation of ovaries and the formation of fruits. Usually this time is mid-summer - July and early August, the hottest days. At this time, especially in the southern regions, the water in wells and wells becomes hard naturally. Water leaves sediment along the way. Hoses and accessories become clogged after a month of intensive watering.
- Plants are irregularly watered. The appearance and properties of the fruit deteriorate;
- Hard water alkalizes the soil, so the root system of plants does not assimilate the mineral elements associated with salts. This worsens the properties of vegetables and causes specific diseases (ugly form, the appearance of rot);
- Phosphorus, with which plants are fertilized at this time, is also not assimilated in alkaline soil;
- To cope with this problem, you have to use acids that dissolve alkalis. Working with them is unsafe for humans and the environment.
Pekacid is an exceptional solution. The fertilizer simultaneously nourishes the plants and cleans the irrigation belts due to its composition.
Characteristics of the drug
In appearance, Pekacid is a powder consisting of small crystals or granules of white color, odorless. Hazard class: 3.
Fertilizer composition
Formula Pekacid N0P60K20 states that it contains:
- Only total nitrogen content;
- Large percentage of phosphorus: 60% P2ABOUT5what interacts with alkalis;
- Potassium, indispensable for crops, is present: 20% K2A. In this form, it is readily available in plant soil;
- Sodium and chlorine free.
Features of the complex
Fertilizer quickly interacts with water. If the temperature of the medium is 20 0C, 670 g of the substance dissolves in a liter of water.
In the fertilizer Pekacid, phosphorus is in an increased amount - 15% more than in conventional formulations.
The complex is designed for fertilizing through drip irrigation systems in order to reduce soil alkalization, as well as for foliar dressing.
- This method significantly increases the effectiveness of feeding. With it, unproductive losses of fertilizers are reduced, since plants absorb them more fully;
- Pekacid compensates for the lack of potassium and phosphorus, replaces the use of phosphoric acid;
- Pekacid is used in mixtures where fertilizers are completely dissolved to include calcium, magnesium and trace elements;
- The fertilizer is used for growing crops on a soilless basis, using the hydroponic method in greenhouses and open ground;
- With the help of Pekacid, any vegetables, leafy greens, roots, flowers, fruits are grown on alkaline and neutral soils;
- The concentrated form of Pekacid dissolves sediments in the irrigation paths that originated from calcium carbonates, as well as calcium and iron phosphates;
- The pungent smell of fertilizer scares away pests: aphids, bear, onion fly, lurkers and others.
Advantages in agricultural technology
The use of Pekacid fertilizer makes the feeding process easy, safe and efficient.
- Maintaining optimal soil and water pH levels;
- Increasing the availability of plant nutrients, including phosphorus;
- Increasing the mobility of nutritional components in the root system;
- Regulation of the amount of nitrogen that is significantly lost through evaporation;
- Strengthening the filtration of water in the soil;
- Neutralization and destruction of plaque in the irrigation system, which increases the duration of its use;
- Scare away harmful insects from crops.
Application
Pekacid will have a beneficial effect on plants if the fertilizer is applied for prophylaxis or at the first symptoms of mineral deficiency.
When to feed your plants
Both garden and horticultural crops signal that the time has come to take care of them by replenishing the supply of trace elements in the soil. You just need to notice external changes in time.
- The lower leaves turn yellow or pale;
- Leaves are formed small, unless this is a sign of the variety;
- Vegetation is slowed down;
- Lack of flowers;
- Damage appears on trees after spring frosts.
Fertilizer Pekacid is applied at different periods of development of vegetable, fruit or ornamental crops. Plants are fed before or after flowering, before and after fruit ripening. In the fall, fertilizer is applied to the soil, removing all plant residues from the site.
How to use the product correctly
A week or a decade after germination, the first watering is carried out by adding fertilizer to the water. Seedlings can be watered immediately after planting on the site.
Pekacid is used strictly following the indicated dosage so as not to damage the plants.
- The powder is dissolved based on the proportion: no more than 3 kilograms per 1000 m3 water, or in small doses - 1 teaspoon for 1 liter of water;
- Pekacid is used by dissolving from 500 to 1000 g in 1000 m3 water for irrigation once or twice a month;
- Another application is possible: at 1000 m3 water consumes 2-3 kg of the drug for two or three waterings per season;
- In one season, from 50 to 100 kg of Pekacid fertilizer are applied per hectare, depending on the phosphorus content in the soil.
What other drugs are combined with Pekacid
In the instructions for the use of Pekacid fertilizer, it is emphasized that the complex substance is mixed with all the necessary fertilizers in accordance with the agricultural technology of growing crops. It is combined with sulfates of magnesium, potassium and ammonium, nitrates of magnesium, calcium, potassium, as well as urea, ammonium nitrate. Pekacid is combined not only with the usual mineral substances, but also with a relatively new type of fertilizer - chelated or organometallic forms of microelements.These complexes are most fully and easily assimilated by plants.
Approximate mixing order:
- Two-thirds of the volume is poured into the tank;
- Fall asleep with Pekacid;
- Add calcium nitrate;
- Then, if there are recommendations, potassium nitrate, magnesium nitrate, ammonium nitrate are alternately introduced into the mixture;
- Add water.
Fertilization rates for garden crops
A practical and useful preparation suitable for all plants. The immunity of crops increases if they are fertilized with Pekacid.
Table of application of Pekacid in the open field
It is recommended to use this fertilizer with irrigation water with a pH value greater than 7.2. This is the key to a good harvest and elasticity of irrigation systems.
