The fertilizer is an organic or inorganic substance that provides nutrients to the plants that soil alone does not provide. To fertilize an olive tree is used a substance that can be made based on nitrogen, potassium, calcium, manure, worms, fruit waste, among other elements; The truth is that the mixture of some of these substances provides the olives with nutrients that contribute to their growth and maintenance.
Suggestion and tips
In the case of olive fertilizer, it is recommended to use nitrogen when it is desired to accelerate vegetative activity and tree development. It is recommended to use phosphorus when the objective is to accelerate ripening and improve flowering.
When it is sought to fertilize an olive tree and that it acquires resistance to cryptogamic diseases and resistance to frost, since they are trees with a dry and hot climate, it is recommended to use potassium as the main element of the fertilizer, in turn, and this element contributes to improve the size and quality of its fruits.
On the other hand, elements such as boron are usually absent more frequently in the field, however, in the case of iron that is usually present with greater incidence in the soil, similarly manifests deficiency of this element when fertilizing an olive tree due to the immobilization produced by the bicarbonate ion on this nutrient, avoiding being absorbed easily and quickly by the roots of the tree.
To fertilize an olive tree
It is important to take into account that in the case of the rain-fed olive grove some nitrogen, complex, solid and liquid fertilizers are added to the soil near their absorbent roots so that they can absorb and be fully nourished.
In the case of the irrigation olive, nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium is used in the fertilizer according to the period of time (summer, spring, autumn, winter). In the same way it is important to know that the subscriber can be made via foliar.
