Various Advantages of Using Liquid Seaweed Fertilizer
1. Liquid seaweed fertilizer promotes additional
buds if applied as the plants are beginning to bud.
2. It extends the shelf life of fruits and
vegetables if applied 10 days before harvesting.
3. It lengthens the life of cut flowers if they
are sprayed with liquid seaweed a day or two before cutting.
4. Liquid seaweed also can be used as a rooting
solution. Place cuttings in a solution of liquid seaweed and water until roots
develop, then plant. When planting, water with liquid seaweed solution.
5. Liquid seaweed applied to pasture crops
increases the nutrient uptake, the protein content and overall quality of the
crop.
6. A wide range of beneficial effects have been
reported from the use of liquid seaweed extracts, including increased crop
yields, resistance of plants to frost and disease, increased uptake of
inorganic constituents from the soil, more resistance to stress conditions and
reductions in storage losses of fruit.
7. It promotes vigorous growth and helps deter
pests and diseases on fruit, flowers, vegetables, lawns etc.
8. Seaweed has more than 70 minerals, vitamins
and enzymes.
9. Seaweed fertilizers are especially useful in
organic gardening. They contain almost every micro-nutrient in a fully chelated
(immediately available) form. They deliver a healthy dose of natural plant
hormones. Seaweed is full of carbohydrates, which plants use as a building
block. Large populations of beneficial microorganisms also use they
carbohydrates as a food source.
10.
Alginates (sponge-like
starches found in seaweed) hold water droplets near the plant roots, making
moisture available to the roots without drowning them. Alginates also help
enrich the soil by feeding it a myriad of beneficial microorganisms, such as
bacteria and tiny fungi, necessary for composting.
11.
Research at major
universities has shown that seeds soaked in seaweed extract germinate more
rapidly, have larger root mass, stronger plant growth and higher survival rate.
Soaking plant roots in seaweed extract reduces transplant shock and speeds root
growth.
12.
Several university
studies have shown that seaweed can produce dramatic results in plants:
geraniums produced more flowers per plant; grapes were sweeter; gladiolus corms
grew larger; and cucumber yields increased 40 percent (and the fruits suffered
less often from softening and rotting). Improved yields after seaweed
treatments were measured in potatoes, sweet corn, peppers, tomatoes, apples,
strawberries, okra and oranges.
13.
Another major
component in liquid seaweed fertilizers are the hormones. The main hormones in
seaweed are auxins, gibbelerins, cytokinins and betaines. The roles of these
hormones are essential to plant health. Most of these are only required in very
small proportions. There are many different auxins, and they all have their
specific roles. One of their main functions is balancing speed of growth. They
have both growth-stimulating and growth-delaying functions. They also stimulate
root-growth and prevent bud-forming or bud-opening at the wrong times.
14.
Seaweed can play an
important role in the production of the plant's own auxins, because the enzymes
formed with the help of trace elements from the liquid seaweed fertilizer play
an important role in the formation of these auxins.
15.
Cytokinins are another
group of important plant hormones. They initiate and activate basic growth
processes. The cytokinins available in liquid seaweed extract stimulate growth
with greater vigour, because they mobilize nutrients in the leaves. They also
provide protection from marginal frost (up to -3 Celsius). Cytokinins also
retard the senescence (aging processes) in the plant.
16.
Betaines play an
essential role in the osmotic processes in plants. They help to increase the
water uptake in plants and are extremely helpful in dry conditions. Betaines
are particularly helpful to plants under stress.
17.
Liquid seaweed
fertilizers (especially the alginates in the seaweed) act as soil conditioners.
The alginates react with metals in the soil and form long, cross-linked
polymers in the soil. These polymers improve the crumbling in the soil and
swell up when they get wet. They also retain moisture for a long time.
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