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Mycorrhizal Fungi – Renewing an Ancient Partnership with CropsYou can learn a lot from nature. Millions of years ago, plants and mycorrhizal fungi formed a strategic partnership in order to survive harsh environmental conditions. Today, we can leverage that ancient relationship to dramatically affect our landscape’s ability to survive and flourish.
Urban landscapes can be harsh environments for your plantings. Construction damage, poor soil quality and fertility, lack of water - all affect a plant's ability to survive. By adding mycorrhizal fungi into the soils of your urban landscape, you are leveraging a tried and true ancient relationship designed by nature to overcome these stressors. Mycorrhizal plants use available water & nutrients more efficiently under both good and challenging conditions, resulting in hardier, stress tolerant plants. Even under optimal conditions, they still efficiently mine the soil and develop to their full potential. Millions of years ago a symbiotic partnership developed between plants and mycorrhizal fungi dwelling in the soil among plant roots. Both faced many natural stresses, and to survive each needed something the other could provide. The fungi needed sugars plants could manufacture for them as food. The plants needed greater root reach and numbers to draw in more nutrients so they could grow stronger, and stronger. Mycorrhizal fungi began to serve as a secondary root system, organizing and extending themselves far out into the soil with tubular structures that extract mineral elements and water from soil and transport them to the roots of their host plant. The fungi in turn live off the plant’s sugars translocated to them by the roots. Trees and plants with thriving “mycorrhizal roots” systems are better able to survive and thrive in stressful environments, such as the nearly biologically sterile soil conditions modern agricultural technologies have created for crops. Mycorrhizal fungi still exist in farm soil, but their numbers have been greatly diminished over decades of tillage, fumigation, chemical applications, fertilization, and too often, drought.
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Packaging Size: Packed in 3 ounce packs (30 packs per case)
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Packaging Size: Packed in 30 pound pails
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Packaging Size: 25 Pound Box – 540 x 21 gram
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Packaging Size: 55# Bag
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Packaging Size: Packed in 10 pound bags
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Key product benefits of Healthy Start 3-4-3:
Packaging Size: Packed in 25# and 50# bags Application Rates:
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Key product benefits of PHC for Turf 15-1-6:
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This product is specially designed to reduce transplant stress while
improving soil hydration and fertility. It’s applied to the root zone of trees
and shrubs at the time of planting. The city of New York plants 10,000 trees per
year and went from a 12% mortality rate to 1.5% after using Tree Saver. Tree
Saver contains five species of mychorrizal fungi, six species of bacteria and
Terra-Sorb hydrogel. 
PHC Flower Saver Plus 3-4-3 contains four select species of VAM fungi in
long-lasting spore form that colonize roots to improve absorption of water and
nutrients. It also contains organic fertilizers with beneficial rhizosphere
bacteria and rich organic soil nutrients. The result is a robust soil treatment
for promoting healthy, long-lasting flowers. It also benefits annual bedding
plants, bulbs, tubers, perennials, herbs, groundcovers, vegetables, fruits and
ornamental grasses. 
Combining advanced chemistry with biology, no other planting tablet delivers
such an advanced approach to slow-release, long-term and sustainable fertility.
We start with a standard mix of synthetic fertilizers to provide the basic
N-P-K. Six hard-working bacteria species are then added, which together, perform
phosphorus stabilization and nitrogen fixation. Third, we add iron in a
slow-release sucrate form that is not susceptible to leaching. Finally, we
include humic acids, which are naturally present in forest soils, but are
lacking in managed settings. Humic acids help to improve root uptake of minerals
even in unfavorable pH environments. The nutrients in these tablets take up to 2
years to completely release. 
Terra-Sorb is a super-absorbent, potassium-based co-polymer gel that
significantly increases the water-holding capacity of soil. It absorbs up to 200
times its weight in water and slowly releases it to nearby plant roots. Terra-Sorb
will repeatedly absorb and release water for several years until it biodegrades.
PHC
Plant Saver is a combination product used for establishing or maintaining most
plants. PHC Plant Saver contains a blend of ecto- and VA mycorrhizal fungal
spores, beneficial rhizosphere bacteria, 4-7-4 fertilizer, organic amendments,
and a selection of slowly available micronutrients. PHC Plant Saver is designed
to restore soil fertility and address the long-term mineral requirements common
to many plants. 
Healthy Start 3-4-3 is a granular fertilizer formulated to provide organic
and sustainable fertility for all landscape plants. Made from the finest natural
ingredients, it not only provides slow-release N-P-K, but it immediately adds
organic matter to the soil. Six species of rhizosphere bacteria provide a new
level of sustainable fertility. 
PHC for Turf 15-1-6 contains two forms of
nitrogen – soluble for quick green-up and
insoluble for long-term fertility. It is great as
a bridge product between synthetic and
natural treatments. PHC for Turf contains
exclusive beneficial rhizosphere bacteria to
create sustainable soil fertility.
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