Water Soluble Fertilizers for Fertigation Programmes
Fully water soluble fertilizers exist to pass through emitters without residue. The commercial risk is not price but insolubles, incompatible salt combinations and chelate breakdown at the pH of the irrigation water — each of which shows up as blocked drippers weeks after delivery. Specification therefore starts with the water analysis, not with the product catalogue.
Commercial applications
- Greenhouse and screenhouse fertigation of fruiting vegetables
- Open-field drip programmes on high-value crops
- Soilless and substrate production with recirculation
- Foliar tank mixes where full solubility is mandatory
Who procures this
- Protected cropping operations
- High-value open-field horticulture
- Nurseries and propagation facilities
- Export fruit and vegetable producers
Why it matters commercially
Low-insolubles grades and correct stock-tank separation keep uniformity high and cut filter and line-flushing labour.
Single salts plus targeted complexes let the agronomist build a recipe per crop stage instead of buying a fixed blend.
Lot-level certificates of analysis make deviation traceable when crop symptoms appear.
What a complete RFQ specifies
Technical specification lines
- Solubility
- g/L at 20 °C, insolubles ≤ stated ppm, dissolution time
- Chelates
- EDTA / DTPA / EDDHA selection matched to irrigation-water pH
- EC & pH behaviour
- EC contribution per g/L and effect on final nutrient-solution pH
- Compatibility
- Calcium/phosphate/sulphate separation across stock tanks A and B
- Packaging
- Moisture-barrier 25 kg bags or 1 t big bags; storage humidity limits
Typical project sizes
- Greenhouse block (1 – 5 ha)
- 20 – 120 t / year
- Commercial drip estate (20 – 100 ha)
- 150 – 900 t / year
- Multi-site export producer
- 1,000 t+ / year with scheduled call-off
Standards, registrations and certification
- ISO 9001 and lot-level certificate of analysis
- EU fertilising product or destination-market registration
- Heavy-metal limits for export-certified production
- GlobalG.A.P.-compatible input record keeping
Frequently asked questions
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