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Agro-Soil™ General Guidelines |
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» Agro-Soil™ General Guidelines Its organic components improve water holding capacity and serve as a buffer and reservoir for plant nutrition’s by providing a favorable cation exchange capacity. The cellular polymer matrix of each plug will not compact and thus provides good aeration throughout the growth cycle. The media is a mix of coco peat and coir fibers. What this means to you is that the media combines the optimal balance of water holding and porosity necessary for healthy root systems. » Material Composition Agro-Soil™ is 100% organic material and contains a mix of coco peat and coco fibers. This proven combination of organic materials allows to control fully the right growing specifications as required by each crop. » pH (acidity)  The pH of your growing media has a significant impact on the solulability of minerals and nutrients. Fourteen of the seventeen essential plant nutrients are obtained from the growing medium. In most cases, before a nutrient can be used by plants, it must be dissolved into the soil solution. Studies have shown that most plants grow best when the pH is between 5.5 and 7.0. Agro-Soil™ is manufactured with a pH in the 5.5 to 6.5 range which is optimal for most plants. » Porosity Growers have long recognized that the key to a healthy root system is a highly porous growing media. In most cases, the higher the overall porosity, the better the growing results achieved. Agro-Soil™ exhibits a 80% - 90% porosity in balanced proportions.  » Cation Exchange Capacity The cation exchange capacity (CEC) of a growing medium indicates the ability of the medium to retain nutrients for plant uptake between fertilization periods. Typically, the higher the CEC, the greater the ability of the growth medium to retain nutrients against leaching during irrigation and serve as a buffer from abrupt fluctuations in soil salinity and pH. CEC is the sum of exchangeable cations (positively charged irons) soil can absorb per unit weight or volume and is usually measured in milligram equivalents per 100g (meq/100g). Agro-Soil™ typically has a CEC of 10 to 20 meq/100g. » ECe (salinity) High salt concentrations in growing media prevent the uptake of water and essential nutrients by plant roots. ECe (electrical conductivity) is a measurement of the salinity of the growth media. The electrical conductivity increases with salinity because of the increasing presence of ions . Electrical conductivity is often expressed in units such as microSeimens per centimeter (mS/cm – 1:1.5 volume basis). Agro-Soil™ typical range for ECe is between 0.5 to 0.8 mS/cm. |
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