Effect
Increased produce quality
Flexx-Plus treated Creeping bentgrass, cv. SR1119, grown in a golf green had on average 1.7 % less substrate richness for bacterial communities, a 9.8 % higher visual quality (colour, stand uniformity, percentage of localized dry spot), a 11.8 % lower visual localized dry spot rate, leafs contained 0.5 % less N, 1.9 % less P, 0.9 % less K, 5.2 % more Ca, 2.6 % more Mg, 0.4 % more S, 3.3 % less Zn, 11.9 % more B, 8.5 % less Mn, 31.7 % less Fe and 17.2 % less Cu compared to the untreated control.
Trial details
outdoor, unprotected, soil grown (commercial root zone mixture of 80 % sand:20 % sphagnum peat humus, optimal cultivation (routine maintenance)
USA
Crop
Creeping bentgrass, Agrostis stolonifera L.
Trial application
Method
Foliar spray
Timing
First treatment 3 years after grow-in of grass (29 May), followed by a bi-weekly application till 21th of August.
Rate
38.3kg/ha in 571 L solution/ha
2005
Biostimulant Influences on Turfgrass Microbial Communities and Creeping Bentgrass Putting Green Quality
HortScience
40(6)
1904-1910
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