How to provide the tobacco plant with required nutrients

Check out our recommendation for the fertilization of tobacco, using Haifa's fertilizers

Fertilization of flue cured - Virginia

Requirements

A - Pre-plant soil application

Common practice in Zimbabwe*

* this N-P-K formula can be replaced by other locally common N-P-K formula or by straight fertilizers (ammonium nitrate, SSP, SOP etc.).

B - Fertigation

Oriental tobacco

source: Dimitris Stamboulidis (Moscholois Chemicals S.A)

The practice in Katerini:

A few days after transplanting:      
40 kg/str (=400 kg/ha) of 4-14-30   
25 kg/str (=250 kg/ha) of 0-20-0   
35 kg/str (=35 kg/ha) of 0-0-50   

20 days after transplanting: 10 kg/str (=100 kg/ha) of Multi-K as side dressing

Side dressing:
     
1) Oriental Tobacco:      

N - 2-4 Kg/str   
P₂O₅ - 6-8 Kg/str   
K₂O - 8-12 Kg/str   

2) Flue-cured (Virginia):      
N - 5-10 Kg/str   
P₂O₅ - 8-14 Kg/str   
K₂O - 15-22 Kg/str   

3) Burley:      
N - 14-20 Kg/str   
P₂O₅ - 20-35 Kg/str   
K₂O - 20-25 Kg/str

Macro-nutrients removed by 1 ton marketable product

Light (air cured) tobacco

Oven cured tobacco

Source: Kinoch: VOLHOUBARE LANDBOU, RSA. Processed by Frans Lourens, Haifa, RSA May, 1999.

Nutrient sufficiency ranges

(source: A & L, Agronomy Handbook, Ankerman & Large, Eds., 1991)

Tobacco – Mineral analysis values