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"Watch out with low phosphorus fertilization"

The importance of phosphorus in horticulture has changed throughout the years. Prior to the use of soilless media, field soil was used to grow potted plants. Phosphorus application rates were high because phosphorus becomes immobile in soil as it easily binds to the cation exchange sites on soil particles and forms insoluble compounds with aluminum, calcium, magnesium and iron.

When soilless growing media were developed, this thinking came forward, but soilless media have a lower cation exchange capacity and very low levels of aluminum, calcium, magnesium and iron. Thus, for crops grown in soilless media, most of the applied phosphorus is available for plant uptake or is leached during irrigation.

Read more at the PRO-MIX website.
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