Spraying liquid fertilizer question

[WTA]

This may sound stupid but I have been wondering exactly how this stuff works. Usually I use 32-0-0 at 200 pounds per acre here on my bermuda field and I try to spray in the late afternoon or night time then immediately get the big water guns fired up to water it in but is it necessary?

Is this type of fertilizer absorbed through the plant or does it have to be watered in?

If it does need to be watered into the ground then what happens to it if the wind is blowing 50 mph the day after I spray and I can't water it? Did I just waste my fertilizer and all those dollars are evaporating off? I hope not because we've had 30-50 mph winds for 2 straight days now and I can't get the sprinklers going. All the water blows to the next county instead of into my grass.

 

[jimg]

I think it depends on the formulation. Some is foliar and some isnt. I think the label or use blurb should say. Im guessing you need to use this more often than solid fertilizer? Right now Im thinking about other fertilizing methods than dumping on the surface. Its just too expensive to waste!

 

[WTA]

Theres no label on the stuff I get. It comes out of a big tank at a fertilizer distributer so I guess I will ask them. We just carry a 250 gallon tote up there in the back of the truck and fill up.

We bought bagged fertilizer just once. The cost proved to be way too much, I think it came out somewhere up in that 3 dollar per bale range doing that so I just stick to the big ag distributers now.

I have learned that in some places you have to be a coop member to get it. I don't grow cotton so none of them will let me be a member here but I still have other sources that don't care.

 

[jimg]

Yes, I would ask them for data about their formulation. Im sure it must exist.

I used solid fertilizer this spring but it was bilk not bag and the cost wasnt terrible although it wasnt cheap either. Guess I have an advantage of having a coop close by that has reasonable prices.

 

[Renovator]

Theres no label on the stuff I get. It comes out of a big tank at a fertilizer distributer so I guess I will ask them. We just carry a 250 gallon tote up there in the back of the truck and fill up.

We bought bagged fertilizer just once. The cost proved to be way too much, I think it came out somewhere up in that 3 dollar per bale range doing that so I just stick to the big ag distributers now.

I have learned that in some places you have to be a coop member to get it. I don't grow cotton so none of them will let me be a member here but I still have other sources that don't care.

The temperature has more to do with volitization. Any thing over 50 degrees F and volitization is higher It only takes about a 1/4" of rain to dissolve it granular. Around here the price is pretty close and most people use granular 46-0-0.

 

[Kaliburz]

Yes, there is a difference between liquid foliage fertilizer vs liquid ground applied. The formulation of the material is the difference.... I asked my fieldman buddy since I couldn't recall. I had a 100 gal of extra fert and wondered if I could use it as a foliar spray vs ground applied..... couldn't.