Beat Budget, Environmental,
and Nutritional Challenges
with Proven Efficiency.
Nutrient Uptake Research Objectives
Effective turfgrass management is all about
taking the right steps to promote plant health
and longevity, and to effectively manage
pests. Turfgrass fertilization is a primary
component of those management plans that
directly affects turfgrass health and playability,
budgets, and environmental stewardship. A
turfgrass nutritional program that promotes
optimal turfgrass health while safeguarding
environmental quality and frugal use of budget
dollars is efficient.
Factors Affecting Nutrient Uptake
Not all foliar fertilizers are created equal.
Complexing and chelating agents exert
considerable control over the supply and
availability of nutrient elements to a plant.
These facilitators and the science behind
them are mostly what separates the different
products on the market.
The most efficient nutrient management
programs use both soil and foliar fertilizer
applications. These programs optimize
nutrient recovery, and can be customized
based on turf species, management practices,
level of maturity, mowing height, time of year,
water quality, and soil chemical and physical
properties. Foliar fertilization is a particularly
useful part of a nutritional program when the
principles behind it are understood and it’s
executed correctly.
Why Choose Grigg Brothers®
Our company is firmly founded on
professional and agronomic expertise. As a
result, our proprietary formulations address
each nutrient specifically and matches them
to naturally occurring, plant-derived organic
chelating and complexing agents that carry
the elements to the plant in the proper ionic
form. Synthetic, less effective, one-solution
agents like EDTA are never used.
Read more in “Chelating Agents: Organic vs Synthetic” : http://gri.gg/note205
University research has shown that our
Nutritional IPM™ strategies powered by
the Proven Foliar™ products can help
promote plant health
and longevity, reduce
pesticide inputs and
maintain quality turf
conditions and playing
surfaces. Turfgrass
managers worldwide
experience sustained
affordable excellence
when choosing Grigg
Gary’s Green® 18-3-4
Brothers®.
Determine if formulation affects nutrient
uptake
• Determine the percent intake of each
nutrient (primary and secondary macro
plus micronutrients) applied to turf
• Determine how quickly the nutrients were
absorbed
• Determine if nutrient intake differed
between turfgrass species
•
• Ion Charge (positive, negative)
• Nutrient Size (diameter)
• Nutrient Concentration
• Temperature
• Plant metabolism
The Proven Foliar™ Effect in Nutrient
Uptake
Correctly chelated mineral nutrients, using
organic agents, result in a more neutral
charge facilitating maximum absorption.
Our nutrients enter micropores in the leaf
surface called ectodesmata clustered near the
stomata properly charged and familiar to the
plant.
Read more in “How To Get The Most From A Foliar Application” :
http://gri.gg/note204
Read more in “Granular VS Foliar Fertilization” : http://gri.gg/bolo110
Also featured on pages 22-27 of the May/June 2011 issue of Florida Turf Digest
Research Rationale
Our Research directives aim for Efficacy of
existing products/programs plus Discovery
& Innovation to contribute to the scientific
knowledge base. Specifically, understanding
the absorption efficiency of each applied
nutrient will allow turfgrass managers a higher
degree of control over their fertilizer programs
and the ability to more effectively maximize
and enhance turfgrass nutrition.
Gaussoin, R., C. Schmidt, K. Frank, T. Butler, H. Liu, W. Jarvis, and C.
Baldwin. 2009. Foliar uptake of nutrients applied in solution to Creeping
Bentgrass (Agrostis palustris Huds.), Annual bluegrass (Poa annua var.
reptans (Hausskn.) and Ultra-Dwarf Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon x C.
transvaalensis Burtt-Davy). International Plant Nutrition Colloquium
(University of California Davis). Paper 1396. -- http://gri.gg/edu1205
Environmental Impact
Using the most efficient fertilizer available
enables turf managers to apply less total
nutrient per unit area across the growing
season to achieve agronomic objectives
while safeguarding environmental quality by
minimizing the potential for nutrient loss as
leachate and/or runoff.
Only Grigg Brothers® has the documented
nutrient uptake data to demonstrate
the efficiency of our advanced fertilizer
formulation technology and its related benefit
to the environment.
Research documents greater
than 60% uptake of Grigg
Brothers® Proven Foliar™
nutrients within 15 minutes after
application!
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