{"id":1141,"date":"2020-11-09T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/blog\/biostimulants-anything-new\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:51:23","slug":"biostimulants-anything-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/blog\/biostimulants-anything-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Biostimulants – Anything new?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biostimulants have been used in turf for forever. Flicking through my heavily worn “Practical Greenkeeping” by Jim Arthur<\/a> (who incidentally would have celebrated his 100th Birthday recently). <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

I can see endless references to “biostimulants”. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Sand and Seaweed stacked and turned, Soot, Cocoa waste, sewage sludge, spent mushrooms, etc the list goes on and on.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What is your view of biostimulants and greenkeeping? We’d love to know. Take our short, 2 minute questionaire by clicking the link below and you could WIN 40 litres of our new biostimulant, Hicure. <\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Greenkeepers have always been looking for that “magic” ingredient something that doesn’t deliver nitrogen (or much nitrogen) but lifts the turfs health.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

By our nature Greenkeepers are experimenters and I would imagine most things they could lay there hands on have been used and trialled in an attempt to Improve plant health.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I used to love looking back through the old diaries at the last course I managed. In that situation a mix of Beech leaves and sand was “Biostimulant” of choice up until the early 1980’s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

They’ve not always been called “Biostimulants” thats a term that has been coined in recent years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

They’ve evolved from raw products to improved formulations and cleaner products<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

and<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

As the short term turf response levels are minimal it’s become difficult to measure results and a grey area with more than its fair share of poorly researched products.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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This is a bigger challenge than just turf which spreads over Agriculture and Horticulture<\/a> too. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The upcoming Fertiliser regs intend to improve this area with product claims requiring supporting data. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I am personally looking forward to the challenge of digging deeper into these kind of products and presenting the data.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biostimulants have been used in turf for forever. Flicking through my heavily worn “Practical Greenkeeping” by Jim Arthur (who incidentally would have celebrated his 100th Birthday recently). I can see endless references to “biostimulants”. Sand and Seaweed stacked and turned, Soot, Cocoa waste, sewage sludge, spent mushrooms, etc the list goes on and on. What…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}