Getting the right nutrients to coffee at the right time is essential for supporting flowering, fruit set, berry development and yield.
Kenyan coffee has a distinct seasonal growth cycle, with important periods of vegetative growth, flowering and fruit development. Foliar fertilizers can help supply nutrients directly to the plant when demand is high, complementing the wider coffee nutrition programme.
Supporting the Kenyan coffee growth cycle
OMEX has developed a range of foliar fertilizers for coffee, including formulations designed to support different stages of growth and development.
Following the long rains, OMEX Foliar 3X can provide a broad spectrum of NPK, magnesium and chelated micronutrients during the August–September growth period. This helps prepare coffee plants for the flowering and fruit-set period that follows.
As flowering and fruit set progress from October onwards, Murex K (Sequential 2), with its high potassium content, can support the changing nutritional demands of reproductive growth.
Boron and zinc are particularly important during flowering and fruit set. OMEX Zibo, developed specifically for the Kenyan coffee industry, combines these two micronutrients in a foliar application.
A complete approach to coffee nutrition
From establishing young coffee plants with Bio 20, through vegetative growth, flowering, fruit set and berry filling, OMEX offers foliar fertilizer solutions designed to complement the nutritional demands of the coffee crop.
“OMEX have shown coffee farmers that they don’t have to accept mass berry drop as an entirely natural phenomenon.”
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