Fertilizer

Mg Fertilizer for Palm Tree

Magnesium is very important as a constituent of chlorophyll. Around 10-35% of the total magnesium content of the palm is contained in chlorophyll. Magnesium is also an essential component of enzyme that involves in protein synthesis, directly in CO2 fixation of photosynthesis by catalyzing the enzyme carboxylase. It also constitutes an important part of the transport of CH2O from leaves to bushes.

Magnesium deficiency occurs commonly on palms planted on light textured soils, where the exchangeable magnesium of soil is less than 0.2 cmol kg-1 soil. A potassium deficiency is indicated by necrosis on the tips of the oldest leaves, while the magnesium deficiency will force symptoms on mid-canopy leaves. Heal of magnesium deficiency of oil palm will be a slow process, it may cost 3 years to complete the recovery.

Oil palm will need magnesium to maintain optimum physiological functions. The magnesium increases the pH of Soil, leaf Mg, exchangeable magnesium and oil to bunch ration, but may have a bit of suppression of leaf K absorption.

Mg Fertilizer for Crops

Among various plant tissues, one common case is that a large proportion of the total magnesium is diffusible and associated with inorganic and organic ions such as citrate and malate. A well-described function of magnesium is its occurrence at the center of the chlorophyll molecule. The quantity of total plant magnesium associated with Chlorophyll is on the order of 15-20%. A vital function of magnesium in photosynthesis is the activation of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase.

The symptoms of magnesium deficiency always begin in the older leaves and then moves into the younger leaves as magnesium is very mobile in the phloem and is translocated from the older to younger leaves when supply is insufficient, which results in chlorosis or interveinal yellowing.

Magnesium fertilizer can also be applied in planting potatoes, sugar beets, bananas, pineapples, sugarcanes, grapes, and many others more.