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Organic Fertilizers

Epsom salt is used to boost the green leaves flowers and fruits. You may spray it or put one teaspoon to 12 inches plants height above 1 feet.

Just dig the soil one inch put some Epsom salt and cover.

It will dissolve timely when u give water.

Note: never use big amount of any fertilizer. It will burn your plants.

You may use it once a month or twice.

Need cake is beneficial for the roots to prevent it from fungus and insects. It prevents from roots rotting.

You may use it by mixing in the preparation of soil medium and sprinkle at the surface of the soil.

Bone meal is rich in calcium. It's fulfill the difficiency of calcium and magnesium of the plants. Plants of fruiting needs it. You may use for vegetable plants too......

Blood meal is fact combination of all nutrition like protein, calcium, phosphorus, nitrogen and others.

It can be use in any plants to boost their growth.

Mustard cake is also essence the quality of your medium. It prevents from diseases and fungal infection of the plants.

Fish fertilizer is basically good for leafy plants like kurri patta and other. It's rich is nitrogen which green leaves needs. It fulfill the requirements of vitamins and other nutrients. It enhances the size of flowers and leaves.

Note:

One fertilizer could be use in one time....u may study which plants facing lacking of nutrients and then judge to give them in moderate quatity.

 The students of Economics are well aware of the terms widely used in Economics i.e. Macro & Micro.

In plant sciences, macro nutrients are the constituents which are available in soil in bulk or excessive quantity and obviously the requirement of plant is equally proportional to the availability.

The macro nutrients are mentioned below:

Carbon – Chemical Abbreviation as C

Oxygen – Chemical Abbreviated as O

Hydrogen – Chemical Abbreviated as H

Nitrogen – Chemical Abbreviated as N

Phosphorus – Chemical Abbreviated as P

Potassium – Chemical Abbreviated as K

Sulfur – Chemical Abbreviated as S

Calcium – Chemical Abbreviated as Ca

Magnesium – Chemical Abbreviated as Mg

The micro nutrients are mentioned below, too:

Iron – Chemical Abbreviation as Fe

Manganese – Chemical Abbreviation as Mn

Copper – Chemical Abbreviation as Cu

Zinc – Chemical Abbreviation as Zn

Boron – Chemical Abbreviation as B

Chloride – Chemical Abbreviation as Cl

Molybdenum – Chemical Abbreviation as Mo

I think after reading them both, i.e. micro & macro nutrients, you may have better idea as there may be some chemical terms in micro nutrients, you barely know them before reading them here. That is the reason they are available in lesser quantity and obviously they are required by the plants in lesser quantity, too. However, in the case of macro nutrients, all of the terms may be familiar with you.

Our air basically consisting of all the gasses (Nitrogen in 78%, Oxygen in 21% and Carbon Dioxide in 0.03%) so they are always available to the plant. However, still it is to be noted that although there is excessive amount of Nitrogen present in the air but plants cannot absorb directly from the air but they get it from the soil. It is another strange fact that Ammonium Nitrate & Nitrous Oxide are present in soil in lesser quantity. Plants can only use nitrogen in the forms of Ammonium & Nitrate. So whatever the chemicals used for overcome the deficiency of Nitrogen must have Ammonium & Nitrate (i.e. Ammonium Sulfate, Calcium Nitrate etc.). Manure of animals are the major source of Nitrogen and always recommended. Here I would like to further elaborate some manure to give your further information:

As we are all better aware of NPK but I would like to tell you again if some of my fellows are not aware so far with this term. The right way to express NPK is N:P:K tells us the quantity of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium in one drop or one grain piece (aik daana).

The cow dung contains about 3% nitrogen, 2% phosphorus and 1% Potassium. So, we can write this statement as the NPK of Cow Dung is 3:2:1 or 3-2-1.

The chicken manure ranges from 3:2.5:1.5 to 6:4:3 (unstable).

Horse manure ranges from 0.5:0.3:0.4 (not recommended due to very lesser required quantities).

And so on…

So you can understand the best manure can be used for the plants is either cow dung or chicken / bird manure. It can further give you explanation why sometimes we go with chemical fertilizers. As maximum range of NPK achieved by natural sources in through birds manure (i.e. 3:2.5:1.5 to 6:4:3). We can not have this manure in bulk quantity like kilos to fertilizer all the plants or fields and after passage of time we require maximum yield from our fields and our plants, so we remained with no other option but to use chemical fertilizers which may have many times higher range of Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorus and other macro nutrients). For instance, you can easily purchase N:P:K 20:20:20, you can never even imagine to have this bulk level of constituents in natural way.

There are some boundaries we have to accept with chemicals is that we may not have some chemicals in alone shape. For example, the eggshells can give you almost 40% of calcium in one gram eggshells. If we require same calcium, we can get calcium is some compound shape, so we have to select any of the compound available to us. These compound may be: Calcium Sulfate, Calcium Nitrate, Calcium Ammonium Nitrate (CAN Gawara we see advertisements on TV). Same is the case with Magnesium, Nitrogen, Carbon, Oxygen, Sulfur etc.)

Similarly, when we discuss micro nutrients, these are the constituents that are available in the soil in lesser quantity and its usage is also lesser and that is the reason we call them micro (tiny) nutrients. Another strange fact, I would love to tell you. The tiniest nutrients deficiency can give you mightiest results. Their deficiency directly affects the flowers, fruits, growth and on leaves. Their deficiency can easily be monitored by the inferior quality of fruiting. Unfortunately, we only address the basic (macro nutrients) which can be achieved easily even through the cow dung or manure.

So, if you want quality and quantity, you must cope the deficiency of micro nutrients. Still, micro nutrients always comes after the macro nutrients. If you have fulfilled the basic (macro) nutrients then you must go for micro. The deficiency / surplus of macro nutrients can kill you plant but on the other hand, deficiency / surplus of micro nutrients cannot kill your plant. First of all, fulfill the basic requirements of the plant. If your plant has been provided with all the basic requirements then mind it, it may have so much immunity that no disease can every harm it. Allah has given every plant, an internal force which fights with the diseases and pests. I personally observed it many times. I experimented it several times. I put a healthy plant between two diseased / pests attacked plant. The healthy plant remained there with no sign of pests or diseases. So, after that I always purchase healthy plant and obviously I recommend you to purchase a healthy plant. More than 50% chances of diseases can be cured with the purchase of healthy plant.

Still, you require any further clarification / supplementary questions, yes, I am here to give you answers, according to my limited knowledge. Nobody can claim to be superior or expert, we all are students. Life teaches and we get the experiences.

Question was being asked about the utilization of some branded fertilizers i.e.

Bone Meal.

Blood Meal.

Fish Fertilizer or Fish Meal.

Epsom Salt.

Neem Cake.

Mustard Cake.

Let me add some more like;

Banana Peel.

Egg Shells.

Apple Leaves.

Coffee.

Peanut Shells.

Peanut Shell (Ash).

Tea Leaves (Chay ki Patti).

Tobacco Leaves (Tambaaqu)

Wood Ash.

It has already been discussed that the word “Fertilizer” revolves around two basic Types;

Macro Fertilizer

Micro Fertilizer

Macro fertilizer revolves around three Basic Constituents; i.e. Nitrogen , Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K). When we combine NPK, it shows N:P:K. People misunderstood about the NPK and assumes that whenever we write or discuss NPK, they believe, the chemical fertilizer is being discussed. No, it is not. NPK shows the tendency / miqdaaar of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium in any compound. No fertilizer can be Macro Fertilizer, if it does not posses NPK at certain ratio, even sometimes, any one or two may be so minimum that is almost absent but their presence is in 0.1% or 0.01% even.

Now coming back to the topic;

Let me tell you what organic compounds have the ratio of NPK.

Bone Meal. 3:15:0

(It shoes it has almost zero level potassium but heavy amount of phosphorus.)

Blood Meal. 12:0:0

(It indicates that blood meal contains heavy amount of Nitrogen but potassium & phosphorus are either absent or in very limited quantity even not be noticed.)

Fish Fertilizer or Fish Meal. 10:2:2

(Good amount of Nitrogen and small amount of potassium & phosphorus.)

Neem Cake. 4:1:2

(Small quantity of Nitrogen present in Neem Cake along with potassium & phosphorus.)

Mustard Cake. 4:1:1

(Likewise the case with Neem Cake.)

Banana Peel. 0:3:42

Banana Stalk 0:3:50

(Very high quantity of Phosphorus in banana peel & stalk).

Coffee. 2:0:0

Peanut Shells. 1:0:0

Peanut Shell (Ash). 0:1:7

Tea Leaves (Chay ki Patti). 4:0:0

Tobacco Leaves (Tambaaqu) 4:1:6

Wood Ash. 0:1:2

I deliberately left Epsom Salt and Egg Shells, as they cannot be consider in Macro Fertilizers. Do you know, Why? Because they do not contain Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium (0:0:0), three of the main constituents are absent. They only contain Calcium which is not a MACRO FERTLIZER but it is in the list of MICROS FERTLIZERS. Same is the case with Epsom Salt (0:0:0), it is not considered as Macro Fertilizer but it is included in the list of Macro Fertilizer, it contains Magnesium and Sulfur in good quantity.

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