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Neptune’s harvest: Sustainable biostimulants
Becoming a sustainable solutionist isn’t easy – especially as biostimulants seem to have this snake-oil reputation even after significant positive scientific data being published over recent years. Like us homosapien’s needing nutrition and vitamins – plants need regular supply of both macro and micronutrients to maximise their yield potential. Like us they can and do suffer stress over the seasonal growing period. So, what’s the solution?
Biostimulants
Often confusing and often left out –understanding the plant’s requirements is a start. Then it’s a case of adding in sustainable biostimulants translocators to help enhance and improve leaf uptake. Active liquid foliar applied micronutrients and biostimulants (beneficial translocators/ enhancers) are 90% soluble translocating very quickly and easily into the plant. Which means any products tank mixed with the above will result in a quicker more efficient uptake.
The addition of seaweed, humic, fulvic acid and lignin (the biostimulant bit) do bring greater results to the table with:
Better root development
Increased uptake
Improved macro/micro availability
Aids efficient N uptake
Reduction of abiotic and biotic stress levels
Biostimulants can be summed up as metabolic enhancers, containing active plant growth substances such as auxins and cytokinins which are beneficial to the plant’s development mainly derived from the sustainable seaweed source. Add in nutrients and hey presto…
Biostimulants (plant health enhancers) have the market potential to grow considerable bigger than the current pesticide supply industry.
May well do – with all the interest in regeneration agriculture, carbon footprints, less fertiliser usage recent legislation and sustainable farming, biostimulants may at last loose that negative snake oil image they now don’t deserve and be redefined as what they really are a sustainable Neptune harvest.
