Pakistan Gardening Forum

To understand what is the best method to provide Iron (Fe) to the Plants? First there is a need to know in which form plant takes iron from the soil? Plants take iron in the form of water soluble iron. When the soil is deficient in water soluble iron or iron becomes insoluble due the alkaline nature of soil the iron deficiency occur in plants. To control the deficiency we provide soluble iron to the plants. This soluble iron (Fe2+) comes from ferrous Sulphate solution which provides iron immediately to the plant. If we use dressing method the most part of ferrous also become unavailable to the plant because of alkaline nature of soil.
In case of extreme deficiency I normally use 200ppm Iron & after recovery 50ppm iron for 15 day feeding schedule. Every time I use freshly prepared solution.