Name: Aspirin, Judyvee V.

Schedule: Tuesday 10:00-1:00)

Instructor: John Mark Risos Date Submitted: June 13,2023

SS24

Exercise No. 2

Nutrient Omission Pot Trial

INTRODUCTION

Nutrient omission pot trial is a technique used to identify the key nutrients for
optimum growth and development in plant study of nutrition. It involves
systematically removing essential elements from a plant's growing medium with the
purpose of determining how this affects the plant's development, yield, and other
characteristics. Outcomes benefit from determining which nutrients interact with one
another and which ones are most crucial for plant growth.

METHODOLOGY

The students must prepare 15 pots and label each pot in accordance with
the treatments. After labeling the pots, we proceed to the screen house, where we
are going to add precisely 1 kg of soil. Each pot has three corn seeds planted. After
1 week, we proceed to a screen house to add fertilizer in accordance with the
treatments. In T0, we are not going to add fertilizer. Then T1 has a complete
fertilizer, which is N, P, and K. In T2, we add P and K, while in T3, we add N and K.
The last treatment is T4, to which we add N and P. We were going to collect data
and observe every day after applying fertilizer.
RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Treatment Fertilizer/s added Amount Added

T0 None None

N: 4.24g

T1 Urea, Solophos, Muriate of P: 4.88g

Potash
K: 1.63g

Total: 10.75g

P: 4.88g

T2 Solophos and Muriate of K: 1.63g

Potash
Total: 6.51g

N: 4.24g

T3 Urea and Muriate of Potash K: 1.63g

Total: 5.87g

N: 4.24g

T4 Urea and Solophos P: 4.88g

Total: 9.12g

Mass of Fresh Soil per Pot – 2.25 kilograms

Date Planted – March 21, 2023

Date Harvested – April 11,2023

Table 1: Plant height of corn 5 weeks after planting (WAP) under different treatment.

Treatment Plant Height (cm)

R1 R2 R3 Mean

To 60 cm 48 cm 46 cm 51.33

T1 NONE 36 cm 42 cm 39

T2 79.8 cm 66 cm 87.1 cm 78

T3 48cm 49 cm 50 cm 49

T4 NONE 32.4 cm 56 cm 44.2

Based on the table above, the data we gathered shows different heights of
the corn leaves for each treatment. Also, each treatment has different symptoms. T0
has a total mean of 51.33 for each replication. Followed by T1, which has the lowest
total mean of 39 for each replication. The T2 has a higher mean, which is 77.63. T3
got a total of 49 means for each replication. The last, T4, has a total of 44.2 means.
The treatments have been applied to different fertilizers that provide them with
specific nutrients, which are N, P, and K.

Figure 1: Treatment 0 no fertilizer was applied.

Figure 2: Treatment 1 applied complete
fertilizer (N, P, and K).

Figure 3: Treatment 2 applied potassium and

phosphorus (P and K).
Figure 4: Treatment 3 applied nitrogen
and phosphorus (N and K).

Figure 5: Treatment 4 applied nitrogen and

potassium (N and P).
CONCLUSION

The nutrient omission pot trial is an important tool in the study of plant
nutrition that enables scientists to recognize key plant nutrients as well as
understand how they impact plant growth and development. The development of
efficient fertilizer management strategies and increased crop productivity both benefit
from this experiment.