The Effect of Soil pH on Plant Vitality🌱

 The Effect of Soil pH on Plant Vitality🌱

✅This essential attribute directly influences nutrient uptake by plants and regulates a myriad of chemical processes crucial to their growth and health.

✅ACIDIC pH:

Acidic soils present significant challenges for plant growth. Although these soils facilitate the uptake of micronutrients, such as iron, zinc, and manganese, the retention of essential macroelements such as calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus is compromised. This decrease in macroelement availability can result in nutritional deficiencies or even toxicities, especially from heavy metals; remember to use #SILIDETOX to neutralize these heavy metals from the soil.

Additionally, soil acidification can trigger the precipitation of micronutrients, reducing their accessibility to plants. Decreased microbial activity in acidic soils also represents a challenge, as it negatively affects the decomposition of organic matter and the availability of nutrients to plants.

If this is the case on your farm, remember that you can fix it with #NEUTRONIX7 to adjust the soil pH and thus correct this situation.

✅ NEUTRONIX pH

A soil with a neutral pH provides a balanced environment for plant growth. In this range, the availability of macro and micronutrients is optimal, which favors healthy plant growth. Elements such as boron, aluminum, zinc, iron, and lithium are present in adequate proportions, which contributes to the overall well-being of plants grown in this type of soil.

✅BASIC pH

Alkaline soils, characterized by a high pH, pose unique challenges for agriculture. The high concentration of calcium in these soils can lead to the formation of insoluble calcium phosphates, which drastically reduces the availability of phosphorus for plants.

In addition, the absorption of micronutrients can be limited in alkaline soils, which can interfere with optimal plant functioning and negatively affect their productivity. These imbalances can lead to a malfunction of the law of the minimum, where the deficiency of an essential nutrient can limit the overall performance of the plant.

Source: Amazing Garden tips 

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Dr. Adarsha Gowda

Chairperson/Dean/Head (Former)

Entrepreneurship, Startup & Consultancy 

Dept of Food Science 

Dept of Food Processing & Engineering.