<b>Retention of sulfhate solution by polierilamida hydrogel</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actasciagron.v28i2.1131

Abstract

The hydrogel use in the brazilian agriculture, mainly in the forestation, fruits field, and growth media, is being consolidated by its capacity of holding and release water (nutrient solution) to plants. This work aimed to study the holding capacity of nutrient solutions by hydrogel when submitted into differents solutions from sulphates. This study was conducted out the Irrigation Technical Center of Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná State. It was conducted in a 5 x 5 factorial way (with 26 treatments and 04 replications) and the randomized design. It was used as treatments 05 fertilizers sulphates base (ferrous sulphate, ammonium sulphate, zinc sulphate, copper sulphate, and magnesium sulphate) and 05 doses (0.4; 0.8; 1.2; 1.6, and 2.0 g to each 500 g of distilled water). The distilled water treatment and hydrogel were used as control treatment. The hydrogel was hydrated for 24 hours for a later measure of holding capacity of nutrient solution. We noticed that besides the electric conductivity of nutrient solution the different fertilizer interfered with the holding capacity of nutrient solution.