Overall Summary of Butterfly Pea

OVERALL SUMMARY Of BUTTERFLY PEA

        From this project, what can be concluded was that Butterfly pea vine likes a position with plenty to moderate sunlight and being watered moderately. This plant vine requires a loamy soil with a pH of 6.6 - 7.5. It grows best in weakly acidic soil until weakly alkaline soil. Which mean, Butterfly Pea grow best in the slightly acidic soil with the average pH of 5.

         Butterfly Pea preferred climate tropical zone. Since Butterfly pea is part of ornamental plants. It was adapted to withstand periods with low moisture once they are established. They require a loose, open soil texture their roots can quickly penetrate, such as sandy loam, good drainage so the roots will not stay wet, which promotes root rot. A wide root system allows them to efficiently harvest water and nutrients.

         Besides, the sandy loam soil has high porosity which provide good aeration for rhizobia, but it may due to leaching of nutrients. The plant roots grow can very long throughout the pot to absorb water and nutrients because the soil compaction is low. Moreover, there are some weeds grow in the pot too, thus the soil leaching of nutrients is not so high. We can conclude that this sandy loam soil is still suitable for the legume.

         This plant has all the micronutrient present within it and no deficiency. The nutrient reading of the nitrate (NO3-) was 6.73 (mg/L) while the nutrient reading of phosphate (PO4) was 1.35 (mg/L) and the nutrient reading of Sulphate (SO42-) was 22 (mg/L).

        The finer or moderate- textured soil will have a high amount of heavy metals that acts as a nutrient since the have a high nutrient-holding capacity than the course-textured soil which suggest that the soil texture actually affecting the concentration of the heavy metals in the soil. The plant growth also influenced by the heavy metal because these heavy metal would act as an essential nutrients for the plants like help in the formation of chlorophyll of the plants, reducing respiration, and many more. But, some of the also would contaminate the soil if the concentration is high or it does not have any significant function for the growth of the plant, such as the Cadmium, Cd and Lead, Pb. The dilution also affecting the concentration of the heavy metal presence in the soil because the higher the volume of the dilution, the lower the concentration of the heavy metal.

        In conclusion, the objective of this experiment successfully achieved. The nutrient content in soil can be determined and the features of Butterfly pea grow well was identified.