Yara Krista

[willy]

Anyone use this product, if so will I be able to pour it into my 9000lt bowser and just suck it straight into my sprayer as I fill up?. Will it stay in suspension for 10 hours?

 

[robbie]

Have used a reasonable amount of krista sop and I found it as easy as Epsom salts to dissolve in the induction bowl. I cant really answer the question about staying in suspension other than I left a load in the sprayer for a couple of days an that was fine.

 

[Nitrams]

I was told it was for fertigation use and risked scorching the crop. I presume more for root uptake then in through the leaf?

 

[Brisel]

Yara have a good technical helpline for this kind of query. For now, I'm paging @cricketandcrops

 

[John Slejpner]

Anyone use this product, if so will I be able to pour it into my 9000lt bowser and just suck it straight into my sprayer as I fill up?. Will it stay in suspension for 10 hours?

"Krista" applies to a whole Yara range of useful soluble fertilisers, designed for fertigation. I use Krista SoP by the pallet load through the sprayer. Never any issues, as Robbie.

 

[Flat 10]

Anyone use this product, if so will I be able to pour it into my 9000lt bowser and just suck it straight into my sprayer as I fill up?. Will it stay in suspension for 10 hours?

If it dissolves as I think it would, then it stays dissolved indefinitely- think salt in sea water. Suspension is different and yes settles out eg pots of paint

 

[Hard Graft]

Don’t use yara krista sop but Icl nova sop and find it works well though add humates and urea to the mix as well and get a good response all added in the induction hopper

Nova - Water-Soluble Straight Fertiliser for Crops | ICL UK

Produced for professionals in fertigation and foliar application, the Nova speciality fertilisers are of unrivalled quality and are highly soluble

icl-sf.com

though looking in to theses more

Explorer ICL

 

[cricketandcrops]

Yara have a good technical helpline for this kind of query. For now, I'm paging @cricketandcrops

Once fully dissolved should not settle out. Krista range is for fertigation therefore no recommendations for broad acre spraying into crops, however plenty do it

 

[willy]

Once fully dissolved should not settle out. Krista range is for fertigation therefore no recommendations for broad acre spraying into crops, however plenty do it

what are the risks of spraying it on? Scorch?

 

[cricketandcrops]

what are the risks of spraying it on? Scorch?

Just hasn’t been tested for spraying on crops

 

[Mr chips]

We used a lot last year no problems at all.

 

[willy]

We used a lot last year no problems at all.

what crops and at what water rate please

 

[John Slejpner]

what crops and at what water rate please

Here, 5kg/ha in 110-125 litres. You could dissolve more, check solubility data as i have forgotten, but in reality SoP is very similar to dissolving bittersalz...the first couple of bags are easy...
5 bags into 3000 l is ok... practically i wouldn't want to try much more.

Dropping it into unagitated 9000 litre bowser is likely to leave half or more in a heap at the bottom. No issues if you could agitate / circulate.
Once dissolved it will stay so unless so much water evaporated away that some crystallises back out - practically this is not going to happen.

 

[Breckland Boy]

Have used a reasonable amount of krista sop and I found it as easy as Epsom salts to dissolve in the induction bowl. I cant really answer the question about staying in suspension other than I left a load in the sprayer for a couple of days an that was fine.

@robbie
How much should I be paying for Krista sop?

 

[robbie]

@robbie
How much should I be paying for Krista sop?

Last time I bought some it was 20 quid a bag but on another thread recently someone was getting it for 17 I think. I cant remember which thread it was now, fert price tracker maybe????

 

[robbie]

Ps @Breckland Boy what are you going to apply it too?????

 

[Breckland Boy]

Applied it to wheat last year and my very amateur trial gave 3-4 kg on bushel weights.
I can get it at 16.50 /bag for a pallet.

 

[Hard Graft]

well I was getting icl nova sop at 16.20 per 25 kg bag and 600 per tonne for full pallets including delivery

 

[Breckland Boy]

My quote isn't far off then.
Thanks

 

[robbie]

Applied it to wheat last year and my very amateur trial gave 3-4 kg on bushel weights.
I can get it at 16.50 /bag for a pallet.

Same here but I think it was the sulphur part more than the potash. My soils on the whole are all index 2 and above but mid stem extension tissue tests still showed low K. I cant seem to rectify this and have resigned myself to the fact it's just a side effect of rapid growth.

30 years ago dad was seeing a response to sulphur applied S to the flag leaf and ear even though atmospheric S was plenty for a growing crop, we stopped applying foliar S when we started using S ferts and bushels dropped then when we used SOP we saw an increase in bushels similar to yours but we also saw the same sort of increase when using healthy doses of bitter salts so were thinking the sulphur is the key.