Problem; after 22 years of irrgating with effluent water, the fairways at White Pines GC began to die from a tremendous buildup of sodium in the soil, which had a high pH. Solution; the use of amino acid products provides the turf with more energy to pull nutrients and water from the soil more effectively.
The application of the different sources of calcium was carried out in the study to both roots and foliage in order to correct apical necrosis in tomatoes grown in saline conditions.
The importance of calcium to the stability, structure and rigidity of the cell wall and membranes has been shown in several vegetable species, as it results in tissues that are firmer and more resistant (Ferguson and Drobak, 1988). There are new calcium-based products that provide greater absorption of the mineral by the plant tissues. Complementing this with an appropriate frequency of application should produce better results than those obtained in previous studies; this would mean firmer ...
In an open-air commercial tomato plantation fertigated with saline water (mean CE of the water used: 5.2 dS m-1), we studied the effect on the incidence of apical necrosis (blossom-end rot) and the nutritional state of the crop when calcium nitrate (CN) and AminoQuelant-Ca (AQ) were added to the irrigation solution .
Leaf application and fertigation with AminoQuelant-Ca and leaf application of EDTA-Ca considerably reduced the incidence of blossom-end rot (BER)
