Sod: Root Development
About Root Development
There is a big correlation between dense, healthy, and thick root systems and large yields. The root system is where crops absorb water and the nutrients you feed them for plant growth. A healthy root system is needed to make sure plants have access to all the stored energy they need when they need it resulting in maximum bud production, potency, and bigger yields. Ways to identify unhealthy or poor root development include the curling or cupping of leaves, crops may appear droopy or overwatered, wilting stems or leaves, brown or slimy roots (root rot), or smelly runoff water. Although these visual symptoms may indicate a root developmental issue in your field, it is important that a proper diagnosis takes place for successful problem correction. Phosphorus ensure healthy root development while calcium helps build soil structures so that there are micropores for roots to grow in and properly absorb nutrients from the soil.
Sod: Root Development
About Salinity Management
There is a big correlation between dense, healthy, and thick root systems and large yields. The root system is where crops absorb water and the nutrients you feed them for plant growth. A healthy root system is needed to make sure plants have access to all the stored energy they need when they need it resulting in maximum bud production, potency, and bigger yields. Ways to identify unhealthy or poor root development include the curling or cupping of leaves, crops may appear droopy or overwatered, wilting stems or leaves, brown or slimy roots (root rot), or smelly runoff water. Although these visual symptoms may indicate a root developmental issue in your field, it is important that a proper diagnosis takes place for successful problem correction. Phosphorus ensure healthy root development while calcium helps build soil structures so that there are micropores for roots to grow in and properly absorb nutrients from the soil.
RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS
Root Driver is plentiful in phosphorus, which is highly essential to all plants. It helps a plant convert other nutrients into usable building blocks with which to grow. Adding phosphorus to soil that is currently lacking available phosphorus promotes root growth and winter hardiness, stimulates tillering, and often hastens maturity.
Sod farmers have long understood the importance of calcium for sod nutrition with the standard treatment often being gypsum, lime or calcium nitrate. However, none of these solutions are plant available. MegaCal contains plant-available calcium that is both nano-sized for efficient delivery and chelated so that the nutrients’ outer shell allows it to easily maneuver around other charged ions in the soil and easily enter the plant. Calcium helps maintain a chemical balance in the soil, reduces soil salinity, and improves water penetration into the soil, assisting in the restoration of soil colloid flocculation.