CN102746057A - Plant composite foliar fertilizer and preparation method thereof - Google Patents

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CN102746057A
CN102746057A CN2012101517251A CN201210151725A CN102746057A CN 102746057 A CN102746057 A CN 102746057A CN 2012101517251 A CN2012101517251 A CN 2012101517251A CN 201210151725 A CN201210151725 A CN 201210151725A CN 102746057 A CN102746057 A CN 102746057A
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The invention discloses a plant composite foliar fertilizer which is composed of raw materials of, by mass: 20-25 parts of honey, 8-10 parts of amino acid, 12-15 parts of KH2PO4, 10-12 parts of Ca(NO3)2, 0.2-0.4 parts of anhydrous ZnSO4, 0.1-0.2 parts of anhydrous CuSO4, 1.5-2.5 parts of anhydrous FeSO4, 0.8-1.2 parts of anhydrous MnSO4, 9-10 parts of EDTA, 0.05-0.10 parts of anhydrous (NH4)2Mo2O7, 1.7-2.3 parts of anhydrous H3BO4, 0.1-0.2 parts of gibberellin, 0.15-0.25 parts of cytokinin, 0.2-0.4 parts of sodium naphthalene acetate, 0.8-1.2 parts of sodium nitrophenolate, 0.4-0.6 parts of diethyl aminoethyl hexanoate, 4.5-5 parts of 70% -75% ethanol, and 30-33 parts of neutral water. A preparation method of the fertilizer comprises the steps that: trace elements are complexed by using EDTA; life active substances are dissolved by using ethanol; all the raw materials are dissolved in heated neutral water; the obtained material is stood; precipitated impurities are removed; and the obtained product is packaged. The plant composite foliar fertilizer provided by the invention is rich in various components required by plant growth, and is characterized by small top dressing dosage, long effectiveness, and substantial production increasing effect. The plant composite foliar fertilizer provided by the invention is sprayed in various important periods of crop growth and development. With the fertilizer, base fertilizers except nitrogen fertilizer can be eliminated before sowing.

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Plant compound leave fertilizer and preparation method thereof
Technical field
The present invention relates to technical field of fertilizers, relate in particular to a kind of multi-elements composite fertilizer that plant leaf surface is used that is used for.
Background technology
Leaf dressing is that the aqueous solution fertilizer of multiple nutritional components is imposed on plant leaf surface, plays the fertilizing method of direct or indirect supply plant nutrient effect by certain dosage and concentration, and it is the important means of foliage fertilization.It is fast that leaf dressing has nutrition absorption, and good fertilizer efficiency is replenished root to the insufficient shortcoming of nutrition absorption, overcome soil and applied fertilizer directly that consumption is big, cost is high, waste is big, labour intensity is big, utilization rate of fertilizer is low, is prone to cause the shortcoming of soil compaction and contaminate environment.The disclosed leaf fertilizer of prior art is more, and still, the nutritive ingredient that general leaf fertilizer contains is less, perhaps nutritive ingredient just simple long-pending adding together, causes the fertile effect of leaf single or utilization rate of fertilizer is lower.Therefore, be necessary to develop by multiple nutritional components and activeconstituents and form, reach the plant compound leave fertilizer that improves quality and improve output.
Summary of the invention
The present invention overcomes the deficiency of prior art; A kind of multiple nutritional components compound fertilizer that plant leaf surface uses and preparation method thereof that is used for is provided; It integrates the advantage of many single foliage fertilizers, and it is little to have a consumption, and timeliness is long, utilization ratio is high, the outstanding effect characteristics.
The technical scheme that solves the object of the invention is following:
One kind of plant compound leave fertilizer is made up of the raw material of following mass parts: honey 20-25, amino acid 8-10, KH 2PO 412-15, Ca (NO 3) 210-12, anhydrous ZnSO 40.2-0.4, anhydrous CuSO 40.1-0.2, anhydrous FeSO 41.5-2.5, anhydrous MnSO 40.8-1.2, EDTA 9-10, anhydrous (NH 4) 2Mo 2O 70.05-0.10, anhydrous H 3BO 41.7-2.3, Plant hormones regulators,gibberellins 0.1-0.2, phytokinin 0.15-0.25, Nafusaku 0.2-0.4, sodium nitrophenolate 0.8-1.2, diethylamino ethanol caproate 0.4-0.6, the ethanol 4.5-5 of 70%-75%, neutral water 30-33.
The preparation method of plant compound leave fertilizer of the present invention comprises the steps:
(1) with anhydrous ZnSO 4, anhydrous CuSO 4, anhydrous FeSO 4, anhydrous MnSO 4Be placed in the reaction kettle and mix adding EDTA stirring reaction 50-60min, formation Zn 2+, Cu 2+, Fe 2+, Mn 2+With the complex compound of EDTA, add anhydrous (NH then 4) 2Mo 2O 7Mix 10-15min, add anhydrous H again 3BO 4Mix 10-15min, process the trace element of complexing, subsequent use;
(2) with Plant hormones regulators,gibberellins, phytokinin, Nafusaku, sodium nitrophenolate, diethylamino ethanol caproate, be placed in the reaction kettle and mix, add the ethanol stirring and dissolving of 70%-75%, process life active compound solution, subsequent use;
(3) pour neutral water into reaction kettle and be heated to 60-70 ℃, the complexing trace element that adds (1) preparation stirs 10-15min, adds KH 2PO 4And Ca (NO 3) 2Stir 20-30min, the compound life active compound that adds (2) preparation stirs 20-30min, adds amino acid and honey stirring reaction 50-60min again, leaves standstill 20-24h then, removes sedimentary impurity, and packing gets final product.
The invention has the beneficial effects as follows:
(1) plant compound leave fertilizer of the present invention is rich in plant-growth required macroelement N, P, K, moderate-element S and Ca, the Zn of the complex state that is prone to slowly to be absorbed by crop 2+, Cu 2+, Fe 2+, Mn 2+, the amino acid that synthetic protein is required, VITAMINs that growth and development of plants is required and growth regulator and blade face tackiness agent will satisfy the needs of plant in each stage of growing.
(2) plant compound leave fertilizer prescription of the present invention is on the basis of research plant leaf surface to various nutritive ingredient specific absorptioies, to develop; For improving the application effect of trace element; Carried out complexing with EDTA in advance,, used honey to use and be the blade face tackiness agent for improving the application effect of compound leave fertilizer; Both guaranteed nuisancelessly, a large amount of nutritive ingredient that honey itself contains also can be supplied with to the plant absorbing utilization.
(3) plant compound leave fertilizer of the present invention integrates the advantage of many single foliage fertilizers; Also remedied the demand of crop simultaneously to growth regulating class material, growth activity material; It is little to have the foliage spray consumption; Timeliness is long, effect obviously, can improve the resistance of crop and improve the characteristics of immunizing power, spray plant compound leave fertilizer of the present invention in each important period of crop growth, can use the base fertilizer except that nitrogenous fertilizer more prior to seeding.
(4) use plant compound leave fertilizer of the present invention,, the demand of each stage of plant to multiple nutritional components and physiologically active substance is provided, reach and improve quality and the effect that improves output replenishing the soil supply insufficient while of nutritive element effectively.Evidence, leaf vegetables are used this plant composite foliage fertilizer 3-4 time and are not used comparison a season of growth and can increase production more than 30%, and the solanberry class can be increased production more than 15%, and the Vc content of tomato improves more than 20%; Food crop spray 3-4 time a season of growth and can increase production more than 15%.
Plant leaf surface of the present invention composite fertilizer uses test
(1) test on Caulis et Folium Brassicae capitatae
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Adopt randomized block design, 3 repetitions, 2 processing are respectively: the A. conventional fertilizer application; B. conventional fertilizer application+spray plant compound leave fertilizer of the present invention.Select Agricultural University Of Shanxi farming station and Yuci District Dongyang village as the test point.In sowing on February 20th, 2011, field planting on April 5 is respectively at spraying the fertile 1 000 times of diluents of leaf of the present invention, 600 kg/hm on April 15, April 30 and May 15 three times 2, gather in the crops Mays 25.Test-results is seen table 1.
Table 1 plant compound leave fertilizer of the present invention is to the influence of Caulis et Folium Brassicae capitatae output
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Test-results shows, use leaf fertilizer of the present invention after, Caulis et Folium Brassicae capitatae has on average increased production 35%.
(2) test on tomato
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Randomized block design is adopted in this test, 3 repetitions, and 2 processing are respectively: the A. conventional fertilizer application; B. conventional fertilizer application+spray plant compound leave fertilizer of the present invention.Select Agricultural University Of Shanxi farming station and the south of a town Li Cun of Gujiao City, Xinjiang County as the test point.In sowing on February 25th, 2006, field planting on May 20 began results on July 20.Respectively at June 10, July 10,1 000 times of diluents of three sprays on July 25 leaf fertilizer of the present invention, 600 kg/hm 2Tomato Vc content adopts titration measuring.Test-results is seen table 2.
Table 2 plant compound leave fertilizer of the present invention is to the influence of tomato output and quality
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Test-results shows, use leaf fertilizer of the present invention after tomato on average increase production 16.8%, the Vc content of tomato has on average improved 30.2%.
(3) test on paddy rice
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Randomized block design is adopted in this test, 3 repetitions, and 2 processing are respectively: the A. conventional fertilizer application; B. conventional fertilizer application+spray plant compound leave fertilizer of the present invention.Select Changping, Beijing Shahe Song Laibao, permanently happy test base, the Hai Dianshang village to do the test point.Spray the fertile 1 000 times of diluents of leaf of the present invention, 600 kg/hm respectively in paddy rice jointing, booting, filling stage 2Test-results is seen table 3.
Table 3 plant compound leave fertilizer of the present invention is to the influence of rice yield
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Test-results shows, uses leaf rich water rice of the present invention and on average increases production 18.0%.Further analyze, the fertile main effect of leaf of the present invention has been to improve grain number per spike and the thousand seed weight of paddy rice.
Embodiment 1
Get anhydrous ZnSO 40.4 kilogram, anhydrous CuSO 40.2 kilogram, anhydrous FeSO 42.5 kilogram, anhydrous MnSO 41.2 kilogram is placed in the reaction kettle and mixes, and adds 10 kilograms of EDTA stirring reaction 60min, forms Zn 2+, Cu 2+, Fe 2+, Mn 2+With the complex compound of EDTA, add anhydrous (NH then 4) 2Mo 2O 70.10 kilogram mixes 10min, adds anhydrous H again 3BO 42.3 kilogram mixes 10min, processes the trace element of complexing, and is subsequent use; Getting 0.2 kilogram of Plant hormones regulators,gibberellins, 0.25 kilogram of phytokinin, 0.4 kilogram of Nafusaku, 1.2 kilograms of sodium nitrophenolates, diethylamino ethanol caproate again is placed in the reaction kettle for 0.6 kilogram and mixes; 5 kilograms of stirring and dissolving of ethanol of adding 75%; Process life active compound solution, subsequent use; Get 33 kilograms of neutral waters then and pour reaction kettle into and be heated to 70 ℃, add the aforementioned complexing trace element of processing and stir 10min, add KH 2PO 415 kilograms and Ca (NO 3) 212 kilograms are stirred 20min, add the above-mentioned life active compound solution stirring 20min that processes, and add 0 kilogram of amino acid/11 and 25 kilograms of stirring reaction 60min of honey again; Leave standstill 24h then; Remove sedimentary impurity, packing is about 118 kilograms plant compound leave fertilizer.
Embodiment 2
Get anhydrous ZnSO 40.2 kilogram, anhydrous CuSO 40.1 kilogram, anhydrous FeSO 41.5 kilogram, anhydrous MnSO 40.8 kilogram is placed in the reaction kettle and mixes, and adds 9 kilograms of EDTA stirring reaction 50min, forms Zn 2+, Cu 2+, Fe 2+, Mn 2+With the complex compound of EDTA, add anhydrous (NH then 4) 2Mo 2O 70.05 kilogram mixes 15min, adds anhydrous H again 3BO 41.7 kilogram mixes 15min, processes the trace element of complexing, and is subsequent use; Getting 0.1 kilogram of Plant hormones regulators,gibberellins, 0.15 kilogram of phytokinin, 0.2 kilogram of Nafusaku, 0.8 kilogram of sodium nitrophenolate, diethylamino ethanol caproate again is placed in the reaction kettle for 0.4 kilogram and mixes; 4.5 kilograms of stirring and dissolving of ethanol of adding 70%; Process life active compound solution, subsequent use; Get 30 kilograms of neutral waters then and pour reaction kettle into and be heated to 60 ℃, add the aforementioned complexing trace element of processing and stir 15min, add KH 2PO 412 kilograms and Ca (NO 3) 210 kilograms are stirred 30min, add the above-mentioned life active compound solution stirring 30min that processes, and add 8 kilograms in amino acid and 20 kilograms of stirring reaction 50min of honey again, leave standstill 20h then, remove sedimentary impurity, and packing is about 99 kilograms plant compound leave fertilizer.
Embodiment 3
Get anhydrous ZnSO 40.3 kilogram, anhydrous CuSO 40.15 kilogram, anhydrous FeSO 42 kilograms, anhydrous MnSO 41 kilogram is placed in the reaction kettle and mixes, and adds 9.5 kilograms of EDTA stirring reaction 55min, forms Zn 2+, Cu 2+, Fe 2+, Mn 2+With the complex compound of EDTA, add anhydrous (NH then 4) 2Mo 2O 70.08 kilogram mixes 15min, adds anhydrous H again 3BO 42 kilograms mix 12min, process the trace element of complexing, subsequent use; Getting 0.15 kilogram of Plant hormones regulators,gibberellins, 0.2 kilogram of phytokinin, 0.3 kilogram of Nafusaku, 1 kilogram of sodium nitrophenolate, diethylamino ethanol caproate again is placed in the reaction kettle for 0.5 kilogram and mixes; 4.7 kilograms of stirring and dissolving of ethanol of adding 75%; Process life active compound solution, subsequent use; Get 32 kilograms of neutral waters then and pour reaction kettle into and be heated to 65 ℃, add the aforementioned complexing trace element of processing and stir 13min, add KH 2PO 414 kilograms and Ca (NO 3) 211 kilograms are stirred 25min, add the above-mentioned life active compound solution stirring 25min that processes, and add 9 kilograms in amino acid and 22 kilograms of stirring reaction 55min of honey again; Leave standstill 22h then; Remove sedimentary impurity, packing is about 109 kilograms plant compound leave fertilizer.

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1. the plant compound leave fertilizer is characterized in that being made up of the raw material of following mass parts: honey 20-25, amino acid 8-10, KH 2PO 412-15, Ca (NO 3) 210-12, anhydrous ZnSO 40.2-0.4, anhydrous CuSO 40.1-0.2, anhydrous FeSO 41.5-2.5, anhydrous MnSO 40.8-1.2, EDTA 9-10, anhydrous (NH 4) 2Mo 2O 70.05-0.10, anhydrous H 3BO 41.7-2.3, Plant hormones regulators,gibberellins 0.1-0.2, phytokinin 0.15-0.25, Nafusaku 0.2-0.4, sodium nitrophenolate 0.8-1.2, diethylamino ethanol caproate 0.4-0.6, the ethanol 4.5-5 of 70%-75%, neutral water 30-33.
2. the preparation method of plant compound leave fertilizer comprises the steps:
(1) with anhydrous ZnSO 4, anhydrous CuSO 4, anhydrous FeSO 4, anhydrous MnSO 4Be placed in the reaction kettle and mix adding EDTA stirring reaction 50-60min, formation Zn 2+, Cu 2+, Fe 2+, Mn 2+With the complex compound of EDTA, add anhydrous (NH then 4) 2Mo 2O 7Mix 10-15min, add anhydrous H again 3BO 4Mix 10-15min, process the trace element of complexing, subsequent use;
(2) with Plant hormones regulators,gibberellins, phytokinin, Nafusaku, sodium nitrophenolate, diethylamino ethanol caproate, be placed in the reaction kettle and mix, add 75% ethanol stirring and dissolving, process life active compound solution, subsequent use;
(3) pour neutral water into reaction kettle and be heated to 60-70 ℃, the complexing trace element that adds (1) preparation stirs 10-15min, adds KH 2PO 4And Ca (NO 3) 2Stir 20-30min, the compound life active compound that adds (2) preparation stirs 20-30min, adds amino acid and honey stirring reaction 50-60min again, leaves standstill 20-24h then, removes sedimentary impurity, and packing gets final product.
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