During the growing phase, it is essential to understand how well your crop absorbs nutrients. Crop Check Horti provides insight into the plant’s actual nutrient uptake, helping you identify deficiencies early. With this information, you can adjust fertilisation in time and prevent problems in growth or development.

A deficiency in one or more elements can have serious consequences for crop growth, yield and quality.

Plant nutrient uptake depends on multiple factors:

• pH and EC
• Climate (temperature, light, relative humidity)
• Evaporation rate: influences nutrient transport
• Nutrient interactions: too much of one element can inhibit another

Understanding this balance ensures healthy, resilient crops throughout the growing cycle.

Crop Check Horti analyses oven-dried plant material. The dry matter analysis determines both dissolved and bound nutrients, giving a complete picture of what the crop has absorbed.

Results are expressed in:

• g/kg
• μg/kg
• %/kg
• mmol/kg dry matter

Eurofins Agro Testing maintains an extensive database of target values for many horticultural crops, enabling accurate comparison between your crop results and established guideline values.

Crop Check Horti is valuable when you want to:

• Detect early nutrient deficiencies
• Optimise follow-up fertilisation
• Prevent growth delays or quality losses
• Understand interactions between nutrients
• Monitor the effect of climate conditions on crop uptake

Insight into real nutrient uptake allows growers and advisors to make timely corrections for stronger, more uniform crops.