The fruit crop growth stages varies and the nutrients required by the plants varies with it growth of shoots, roots and fruits. But the recommended doses are N:P:K. How this can be distributed over 12 months and it what proportionate?
A general recommendation followed is split applications coinciding the change in temperature and soil moisture regime. Accordingly, 2 or maximum three splits should take care of the plant nutrition.
Dear Sir
Thanks Nilay for your response. This true for the conventional broadcast application of the fertilizers through soil. Nowadays drip irrigation with fertigation is very common in fruit crops. In such method various N:P:K combination would be helpful for the plant nutrients uptake.
How to apply recommended doses of fertilizers , a large depends upon the method of fertilization . If you are following the conventional method of fertilization , then , you need to partition your fertilizer doses in such a way that should coincide the time of new leaf emergence . Or , you work out the stagewise nutrient requirement experimentally , then schedule your RDF accordingly. Likewise , if you are applying nutrients through fertigation , partition your nutrient and water requirement through stagewise requirement , and then tailor them accordingly. This is the standard procedure , we need to adopt.
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