Solplast - Desinfesol Solarization

Recommendations for good solarization:

• Remove previous crop waste from the land, as it is the source of infection.
• Ensure proper soil structure (loose) and use rollers to flatten the sheet, facilitating contact with the soil.
• Irrigate the soil to field capacity to achieve good heat transmission.
• Install the SOLARIZATION DISINFECTION plastic, ensuring that all areas are covered.
• If later irrigation is necessary, it must be done at night or very early in the morning to prevent the water from cooling the soil.
• During work prior to planting, avoid tilling the soil below a depth of 25-30 cm to prevent mixing solarized soils with the infected soils below this level.
• If used in a greenhouse, keep the greenhouse closed and the plastic covering clean (delimed) during solarization for maximum effectiveness.

• Solarization is the technique of disinfecting the soil through the use of plastics to harness solar energy. Environmentally-friendly and affordable, this technique prevents the plastic covering from being degraded by chemical products, if any.
• Normal films increase temperatures by between 4 and 5 ºC at a depth of 15 cm.
• With the DESINFESOL SOLARIZATION film, the soil temperature can be increased by as much as 7 ºC. This difference in temperature considerably improves the effectiveness of solarization. This reduces the time required for disinfection.
• DESINFESOL SOLARIZATION includes anti-drip additives that reduce the formation of drops of moisture condensation on the surface of the film, to allow maximum use of sunlight.