Root Growth Stimulants After Repotting
While they may not be absolutely necessary, they do help the plant get reestablished faster.
Synthetic hormone products like SuperThrive and Dyna-Gro K-L-N are effective, but suffer from short shelf lives. Get a nice, fresh batch, and they're great. Get an old one, or one that was shipped and stored improperly, and it will do nothing.
Natural products, based upon seaweeds, especially kelp, can also be quite effective, but their efficacy varies all over the map, depending upon the species used, and how they are processed. Crushing, freezing, chemical extraction, and drying all degrade the chemistry to one degree or another.
That said, and acknowledging right up front my financial interest, university and farm research showed that KelpMax is, by far, the most effective stimulant available. (That, by the way, is why I sell it.). It was used on the new turf at Citizens Bank Park in Philly after the NHL Winter Classic tore up the old stuff, and and I have recently shipped some to the Bank of America Stadium (Carolina Panthers), too.
The manufacturer in South Africa does not want to retail it, preferring instead to sell to large-scale agricultural applications, and it took me almost two years of discussions to get their permission to do so.
Last edited by Ray; 06-09-2016 at 10:22 AM..
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