Why it matters
Fast establishment captures light earlier and sets up yield; weak rooting at transplant compounds into season-long underperformance.
When it appears
At and just after transplant.
How to identify it
- Slow, uneven establishment after transplant
- Transplant shock and stalled growth
- Weak early root development
How to manage it
- Reduce shock with even moisture.
- Support rooting with Kelp Boost and Root Boost; activate biology with Charge Bioboost.
Recommended Vegalab program
Observed results: in side-by-side trials against untreated control rows, Charge BioBoost raised Tempranillo grapevine yield by ~50% (Valladolid, Spain, 2016: 14,885 against 9,922 kg/ha on alkaline soil, +23% more clusters, +21% heavier bunches, 32% fewer chlorotic vines); cherry-tomato yield by ~19% (var. Genio, Sicily, Italy, 2015: 84,798 against 71,084 kg/ha, with 36% more ripe fruit and 34% fewer aborted flowers at day 80); and Dutch-cucumber yield by ~12.5% (var. Estrada, Granada, Spain, 2015-16: 119.2 against 106 t/ha). On processing tomato at Firebaugh, California, a three-year programme third-party tested from transplant to harvest and reported by The Agronomy Group took net tonnage from 58.39 tons/acre under the grower standard in year one to 76.93 in year three. Microscope imaging showed arbuscules and hyphae in treated roots and none in the untreated.
| Role | Product | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Transplant vigour | Kelp Boost | Improves transplanting success & rooting |
| Root acceleration | Root Boost | Fast new roots |
| Soil biology | Charge Bioboost | Active root-zone biology |
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