Understanding Chlorine as a Micronutrient in Plant Fertilization

One of the sources of chlorine in soils is rainwater, very different from chlorinated water for human use in coastal areas from seawater, dust and mainly human activity. Every plant, whether indoor, garden, pot or whatever, has had a natural habitat in which it develops more or optimally depending on its agronomic characteristics.

Chlorine used to make water drinkable is not the same as chlorine as a nutrient in the form of chlorides. And that is why we must be careful when watering the plantations if we do not want to suffer a greater risk.

Chlorine is considered as a micronutrient in plant fertilization. In plants it is in the form of Cl- or chloride. It is an osmotic solute of great importance in the vacuoles of the plant cell that helps to maintain healthy plant tissues.

It enters the plant through the root, which will mainly come from the soil. That is, the entry of chlorine to the plant must normally occur in humid conditions. The water mobilizes the chlorides and these pass to the plant.

CHLORINE CAN BE TOXIC
Any chemical element in excess can become harmful to a greater or lesser extent in any organism. In fact, in fertilization plans, it was not even considered because it was considered toxic to many crops. And today it is a parameter that is measured in any soil or water, as published by Portal Frutícola.

There are species that are more and less tolerant to high levels of chlorine in the soil or irrigation water. There are more tolerant plants and more sensitive plants. Normally, those plants that better support salinity tend to have a higher tolerance to chlorides.

THE CHLORINE OF POTABILIZING THE WATER
Treatments for drinking water from the mains in any city in the modern world are designed to bring totally healthy water free of contaminants and microorganisms.
There are many chlorinated compounds but the most common is in the form of sodium hypochlorite (NaClO). It is also the chlorine that is used in swimming pools to prevent the formation of algae and the proliferation of microorganisms since the pool water is stagnant.

Chlorine reacts with microorganisms (germicide) with organic matter, with other inorganic compounds (forming salts) or hydrolyzing with the water itself.

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