Theories and Practices
Plant Nutrition
The optimum growth and development of plants depend on some basic components obtained from the surrounding environment. The components generally include water, carbon dioxide, light, and mineral elements. Plant nutrition is crucial for agriculture production to ensure crop quality and yield quantity. Most food production systems depend on the application of fertilizers. Generally, the use of large amounts of chemical fertilizers promotes high-yield agriculture. Soil application of chemical nutrients is a common practice, however, it is also associated with low nutrient utilization rates, soil acidification, and soil salinization and ultimately leads to inorganic nutrients getting fixed in the soil in an insoluble form. In this form, the nutrients aren't usable to plants. This inefficiency requires farmers to purchase and apply more fertilizer than necessary, which eventually leaches down, by rainfall or irrigation water, to degrade surrounding water quality.
What is the importance of essential elements and minerals?
Some consider that there are 13 essential elements (Fe, B, Cu, Mn, Mo, Si, Zn, Ni, Cl, Se, Na, Al, and Co) required by plants in trace amounts. In addition to these ‘essential’ mineral elements, other elements also are known to be beneficial to plant growth. To support optimum plant growth, some elements are required in trace and ultra-trace quantities. These elements include selenium, silicon, manganese, boron, cobalt, molybdenum, nickel, aluminum, copper, iodine, iron, and zinc.
Zinc and copper are required by, essentially, all plants in small amounts. The ‘essential’ elements contribute important roles to various processes, such as growth hormone production, internode elongation, and bolster various enzymatic activities. The research on beneficial elements has proven that their supportive roles in plant growth, development, and vitality. Additionally, an optimum supply of such beneficial and ultra trace elements have been shown to support a plants' capacity to be more resilient to plant pests and diseases, drought, salinity, and extreme temperatures.
Harvesting Protocol
The period before harvest, crop commodities that rely on distinct flavor profiles should implement a finishing protocol to ensure the full flavor expression. Growers can stop using the Turbo Hume and keep their crops nutrient peaked while enhancing natural flavor profiles.
Nutrient deficiencies
Soil Deficiencies in micronutrients and essential minerals aren’t appropriately addressed in conventional chemical fertilizer programs and over time these Imbalanced programs create nutrient deficiencies in soil, which ultimately reduces crop growth, yields, and pest resilience. Micro nutrient deficiencies and imbalances can be mitigated with foliar sprays that quickly Increase supply of essential micronutrients during the plant reproductive stages and increase yield by expanding the spectrum of yield parameters. Micronutrients participate in very diverse metabolic processes - many support the primary and secondary metabolism of cell defense. Micronutrients also support signal transduction, gene regulation, energy metabolism, and hormone perception. Research has shown that deficiency or excesses in micronutrients and trace elements can lead to toxicity and serious disease symptoms in plants - if not treated, it can ultimately lead to plant destruction.
Why Foliar Feeding?
Foliar fertilizer application has proven to be an effective method to quickly increase the contents of micro nutrients and trace elements in crops and crop yield. Foliar feeding micronutrients and essential elements/minerals has proven to be one of the fastest methods to correct nutrient deficiencies and increase crop yield and quality. The results from using Agrow Synergy foliar sprays are observable - often, within days of application. Supplying a wide array of micronutrients and humified essential minerals through a foliar feeding application, Agrow Synergy products help plants quickly by building more robust cell structure and functioning. Generally, foliar feeding has shown to simulate a plants capacity to hyper accumulate minerals from the soil - even when the soil testing may not reflect those elements/minerals are present in soil. Following a foliar fertilizer application, its observed that mineral concentrations in plant tissue have been magnitudes higher than what exists in the soil or the trace amounts applied in the foliar spray. This phenomenon isn’t fully understand, however, the academic community is continuing to investigate the mechanisms of how it may be occurring. further investigation and research is required.
Agrow Synergy uses micro/nano milling to produce foliar applied fertilizer products. This extra processing step enhances the nutrient penetration via the plant stomata and leaf cuticles. The micro/nano milling offers an opportunity to enhance nutrient and element delivery and fertilizer utilization, drastically increasing nutrient use efficiency. Applying fertilizer as a micro/nano foliar spray has shown to improve crop quality and quantity that year, offering farmers quick returns. The Agrow Synergy foliar feeding fertilizer programs offer farmers an opportunity to quickly transition toward more regenerative practices, which allows time to invest in slow revitalizing of the soil structure and biome.