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Sweet potato clever topdressing rapid expansion

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Sweet potato is a potassium-loving crop. In its fertilizer requirements, nitrogen accounts for 30%, phosphorus accounts for 10%, and potassium accounts for 60%. In the growth process, potassium deficiency in early sweet potato will appear internodes, petioles become shorter, leaves become smaller; potassium deficiency in late old leaves vein serious lack of green, and gradually fall off, seriously affecting the formation of late yield. The method of applying potassium fertilizer is: ...

From late August to early October, it is the root expansion period of sweet potato tuber, which is the key period of yield formation and needs the most fertilizer, which can be topdressing by the following three methods. 1, hole topdressing method: with a piece of wood, 20-30 cm away from its main root, drill a hole about 30 cm deep, put in an appropriate amount of three-element compound fertilizer, and seal it with wet soil. 2. Crack topdressing method: when cracks appear in the expanded ground of sweet potatoes, 500 grams of potassium dihydrogen phosphate per mu and 400 kilograms of water are added to irrigate the cracks into fertilizer liquid, 0.7-1 kilograms per plant. 3. Foliar topdressing method: 0.3% potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution is sprayed on the leaf, once a week, this method can increase the yield by 18% to 20% per mu.

 
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