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Vital Potash
N 11 · K₂O 44. Coated with boron in 2 forms
Lowest on sandy loam (102 ppm). Texture sets what the soil can hold.
Punjab soil testing programme · 36 district workbooks · 770,160 valid samples · c. 2016–2018. The figure describes the soil. It is not a claim for the product.
Tell us the quantity and your district. We reply with price, availability and delivery. Every batch is tested in LAB 336, PNAC · ISO/IEC 17025:2017.
Specification
I fed the crop well and it still filled light. The bolls dropped, the grain stayed thin. Why?
The crop grows on nitrogen and fills on potash
Potash moves the sugar the leaf makes into the grain, the tuber or the fruit, and thickens the cell wall against heat, drought and disease. Pakistan applies about 1 kg of potash for every 83 kg of nitrogen.
Made for the fill window
N 11, K₂O 44, fully water soluble. It goes on at grand growth and maturity, through the fertigation or flood water, when the crop has stopped building leaf and started filling. The small nitrogen share keeps the plant working through fill without pushing new leaf.
Boron rides on the granule, in 2 forms
Boron carries sugar to the flower and sets the seed and the fruit. Since 2014 VAN has coated it onto the potash granule on its own line, developed and built locally, in 2 forms on 1 granule: sodium borate for fast action and calcium borate for slow release. It lands where the potash lands and cannot separate in the bag. Named, never numbered, because no figure is on the bag.
The published wheat programme puts Vital Potash on at Grand Growth, by fertigation, ½ bag. That is the fill window: the stage where the crop stops growing leaf and starts filling grain, tuber or fruit.
- A boron percentage. None is printed on the pack.
- A yield figure, a disease or immunity effect, or a fruit-setting claim.
- A foliar rate. Foliar is a method the plan names; the rate is the plan’s.
- That 2 applications are the season’s whole potash. Fusion Potash is the basal line; this is the fill line.
Programmes that use it
From the published wheat programme. Per acre. “1 bag” means 1 bag of the size printed under the rate.
| Crop | Stage | Band | Rate | Method | Pack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheat | Grand Growth | Potash | ½ bag | Fertigation | Bag · 20 kg |
What it is, what it does in the soil, where it fits in the season and what VAN will not claim for it.