Different Types of Fertilizer in Sri Lanka

Different types of Vegetable fertilizer in Sri Lanka
Different types of Flowering Fertilizer in Sri Lanka
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Different category of Fertilizer in Sinhala Medium.

Different types of fertilizer can be taken to improve vegetable harvest and flower harvest in Sri Lanka. But most of people don't know what they are ?. Today I wish to describe them by giving suitable figures.

Flowering Fertilizer

First of all I wish to describe floriculture in Sri Lanka. Because if you are growing different commercial lowers such as rose, bougainvillea, anthurium, orchids, you can earn more income by selling them. But more people say, we are unable to get the good harvest of flower. The main solution is correct fertilizing to them in different stages. O.K Now we looks what are the flowering fertilizers and their features.

1. N - Fertilizer 

N - Fertilizer is known as nitrogen fertilizer. In Sri Lanka it is called "Nil Kata Pohora". This fertilizer has moderate absorbency value. Therefore it is not harmful to most of flowering plants. This fertilizer is added in little period of the flower plants. This fertilizer has most of nitrogen percentage and moderate percentage of potassium and phosphorous compounds.

Figure 1: Blue Granular Fertilizer 

2. K - Fertilizer   

K - Fertilizer is mean potassium compound based fertilizer and this type of fertilizer is called "Dam kata pohora" in plantation industry. This types of fertilizer has some of the moderate absorbing performance with soil. Therefore it is not harmful to most of plant categories. 

Figure 2: Purple Granular Fertilizer

3. K -40

K 40 has highly absorbing fertilizer which is come as powder. This powder has highly water soluble and K - Forty has higher amount of potassium percentage in dry weight of total pack. This applied as a spray fertilizer for each leaf and root area. Specially results quick blooming with spraying to leaf area within short time period. K-40 has 40% of potassium percentage. According to this potassium rate we can see different introduction such as K - 44. In K - Forty four it contains 44% of potassium based compound weight in fertilizer and other are nitrogen, phosphorous and trace element (TE).

Figure 3: K - 40, 44 Fertilizer 

4. P - 52

P - 52 is highly absorbing and water soluble fertilizer which come as a powder. Its behavior some what similar to K 40 and K 44 but in this fertilizer has 52% Of phosphorous weight in total dry weight of fertilizer and other 48% of element are potassium, nitrogen and trace elements such as calcium, magnesium, zinc, etc. This is sprayed in to leaf, stem and, root area to better rooting to get root bulbs.

Figure 4: P - 52 Fertilizer 

5. Coated Fertilizer

Coated fertilizer has small coated layer hence, water solubility and absorbing rate of soil or growing media is very low. Specially arranged to put some orchid categories and some anthurium categories. Because their rooting complex always spreading on artificial growing media. In this situation it has more probability to harmful for their root net in artificial growing media. Therefore coated fertilizer is used. For an example osmocote coated fertilizer can be explained. 

Figure 5: Coated Fertilizer  

6. Specialized Fertilizer

Specialized fertilizer are arrange for aimed commercial plants. Some times this may be individual category such as bougainvillea. Because in Sri Lanka industry, different varieties of bougainvillea available and bougainvillea has higher customer demand.

Figure 6: Bougainvillea Fertilizer 

In agriculture industry, we can buy different types of specialized categories. It is depending on what they are growing in your garden. Some of these are included in following figure. And these special flower fertilizer are available in different trade names in the market.

Figure 7: Specialized  Fertilizer 

Next, I hope to describe some of important fertilizer for vegetable and fruit plantation. Some of these are highly absorbing and some are moderate absorbing functions. It is depending on long or short term cultivation of different category of plants. 

7. Urea Fertilizer

Urea fertilizer contains high amount of nitrogen. And also water soluble and quickly absorb into soil media. Therefore urea fertilizer is used even short time harvesting vegetables to get quick and better leaf of plants. But in application, it is essential to measure amount of fertilizer weight before applying them for relevant growing soil or media in farm.

Figure 8: Urea Fertilizer 

8. Compost

Compost can be identified as a growing medial and nitrogen based fertilizer. Most of plant compost fertilizer have a good nitrogen percentage, some of phosphorous and potassium percentages. In home gardening, compost is widely used as a fertilizer rather than growing media. 

Figure 9: Compost Fertilizer

9. Mixed Fertilizer

In mix vegetable fertilizer, we can see different percentages of N.P.K values. It means different nitrogen percentage, phosphorus percentage and, potassium percentages. Some mixed fertilizer contains even different trace elements. 

Figure 10: Mixed Fertilizer     

10. Spray Fertilizer

Above I told K-40, K-44, P-52 can be applied for vegetable cultivation. Potassium based are using to get more blooms to get more crop. Phosphorous based spray fertilizer is used to get better rooting and bulbs such as potato harvest.

Figure 11: Spray Fertilizer 

I think now you have an idea different types of fertilizer and their application in agricultural and plantation industry to get optimum  harvest in farms. Another category of fertilizer are also available in this field and such details will be discussed in next fertilizer based article.