Seed Assist - Benefits & Recommendations

Offers the following necessary seed growth requirements in one single application:

• The humic content of Seed Assist speeds up and assists the seed to absorb and retain moisture. This helps to stimulate and sustain the embryonic transition and growth.
• Seed Assist improves the vigour and survival rate of seedlings by supplying a balance of nutrients to achieve an increase in root biomass growth. This increased root system is able to source moisture and nutrients from a greater volume of soil.
• It considerably increases the seedlings ability to extract a larger supply of nutrients and moisture, effectively speeding up top growth and enlargement of leaf surface area.
• This continuing biomass and leaf surface area growth increases photosynthesis. This helps the plant attain early maturity, reducing the time required for effective growth to harvest.
• Seed Assist helps to improve and increase quality of fruit, grain and harvest.
  Seed Assist helps to reduce costs of production and improves returns. It is easily applied to seed either prior to or during planting.
• Seed Assist becomes a very powerful and versatile tool when combined with Soil Assist and Total-Gro, or as an adjunct to conventional products, offering the farmer great flexibility in maintaining and improving the quality, protein and sugar levels of his produce.
• Seed Assist improves the soils microbiology to grow and become sustainable. This further develops the symbiotic relationships, giving even greater access to soil nutrients and minerals.

VAM fungi

(Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi) Is a natural phenomenon and is one of the most important symbiotic relationships in nature.

• These species of fungi form an extremely important beneficial association with plant root systems, effectively increasing the roots surface area, and considerably increasing the volume of soil the plant is able to absorb nutrients and moisture from. This increased root surface area and soil volume improves the absorption and translocation of nutrients that are either too low in concentration, or too bound by the soils chemical and mineral makeup for plant roots to effectively utilise. Phosphate is one example of a nutrient that is affected in this manner.
• Greater than 90% of plant species benefit from these symbiotic relationships. In healthy and fertile soils VAM fungi is capable of increasing soil volume access to the plant by factors of 10 to 100.
• Seed Assist when applied as directed, helps the plant to supply additional simple sugars to the fungi and has no detrimental effect on VAM growth.
• Inorganic salt fertilizers, and soil disturbance type practice greatly reduce the effectiveness of the VAM and plant relationship.

Recommendations

• Always thoroughly mix Seed Assist prior to use!
• General application rate is 10 to 20 litres per tonne of seed applied prior to seeding. Seed Assist is very concentrated and the amount prescribed will dry very quickly on the seed. This procedure will not initiate the germination process.
  • Apply by spraying seed with full concentration in seeder feed auger.
  • Thoroughly mix at full concentration to required seed in cement mixer and continue mixing till seed is dry.
  • Mix small quantities of seed in bucket by hand and keep mixing till coating is dry on seed.
• When using Seed Assist in combination with other nutrient systems, add it at 1/3 of the mixture volume. Thoroughly mix it into the water prior to mixing other additives before application.
• Seed Assist can be applied as a soil drench following seeding. Application rate is 10 litres per hectare thoroughly mixed in to a minimum of 100 litres of water.
• Seed Assist can be applied as a foliar spray at the rate of 5 litres per hectare thoroughly mixed in to 200 litres of water.