Fertilizing saffron plant:
The most important feeding and fertilization step is to strengthen onions from January to April.
Generally, there are 2 types of fertilizer for the saffron plant after planting it.
Animal manure: people who use animal manure to strengthen the saffron plant should cover the farm level from the first year before the first irrigation, with a sufficient amount of fermented fertilizer (no weed seeds), which in addition to supplying the material The required food will be a warm coat for the onions.
Fertilizer: This fertilizer is recommended for soil tests, but if necessary next year, depending on the type of soil, before the first irrigation.
Best fertilizers for increasing saffron flowering:
Decayed cow manure per hectare is 28 tons of the best animal manure for saffron.
But if you want to fertilize it, you should use this fertilizer by spraying. Spray application After the winter frost, use of micro-nutrient fertilizers and amine fertilizers and high levels of potassium phosphorus is carried out. This application is carried out to enhance the girl’s onion and increase flowering and provide the elements needed for the plant.
The benefits of winter spray application for saffron:
1- Increased chlorophyll content
2- Increase plant resistance to cold and heat and environmental stresses.
3. Weight gain and number of onions (bulge) and increased color and increased flowering.
4. Increased vegetative growth and stabilization in growth of the sprout.
5- Increasing the transport of nutrients in saffron.
6- Flowering and shrubbery.
The points to be followed when spraying:
1. Spray on rainy days.
2. When aerosolizing, the leaves and the leaves are completely soaked. If possible, use clear water.
3. Spray the leaves at temperatures below 10 ° C.
4. Spray application is carried out after irrigation, because after irrigation, it is easier to absorb the elements with the opening of the stomata.
5. Make sure the lance sprayer is adjusted and the spray is complete for the leaves.