Beyond post-harvest fertilizing: how to guarantee reserves in super-intensive woody crops, fruit trees and grapes

Post-harvest fertilization in super-intensive crops such as olive trees, fruit trees or almond trees, as well as grapes (table and wine grapes) is a necessary process at the end of a campaign. Once harvesting is over trees are left “exhausted”, having put all their nutritional resources into producing their fruit. It is important to bear in

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Fertilizer

agriculture In total, plants need at least 16 elements, of which the most important are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Plants obtain carbon from the atmosphere and hydrogen and oxygen from water; other nutrients are taken up from the soil. Although plants contain sodium, iodine, and cobalt, these are apparently not essential. This is also true of silicon and aluminum. Overall chemical analyses indicate that

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