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Biological Restoration For A Healthy, Nutrient-Rich Plant.
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Benefits
URB's microbial formulation improves and restores substrate health and fertility. These microbes are complementary, multifunctional and work in five important ways:
Biological Nitrogen Fixation
Ninety-five to ninety-nine percent of nitrogen in the soil is in an organic form that is not available for uptake by plants. And although 78% of the earth's atmosphere is nitrogen, it also is mostly unavailable for plant use. However, Mother Nature has a solution ... microbes.
Microbes play an important part in the nitrogen cycle. URB's microbial formulation unlocks bound soil nitrogen and absorbs nitrogen from the air for optimum plant growth and development.
Phosphate Solubilization
Often, phosphate is present in a bound form unavailable to plants. URB's microbial formulation solubilizes the bound phosphate and makes it available to the plant in a usable form. Phosphate is involved in photosynthesis, respiration, energy storage and transfer, cell division, and enlargement.
This helps in these ways:
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Promotes early root formation and growth
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Improves quality (BRIX value) of Cannabis
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Vital to seed formation
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Helps plants survive harsh conditions
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Increases water-use efficiency
Mobilization and Mineralization of Available Plant Nutrients
It is not enough that a soil contains an element. What matters is it's availability to plants. Mobilizing and mineralizing soil nutrients, such as bound Phosphate, Magnesium, and Calcium into a form that is available for plant uptake. This is the vital role of the microorganisms contained in our products.
Other Nitrogen fixing bacteria that live in the soil continue the conversion into ammonium (NH4 +, a form plants can use).
Nitrifying bacteria convert ammonium into NO2 then to NO3, NO3 is also a form that plants can uptake.
Various decomposers (including bacteria and fungi) breakdown organic forms of nitrogen into ammonium, where then the nitrifying bacteria can continue that conversion into NO3.
Phytohormone Production
Phytohormones are plant growth regulators and make the appropriate nutrients available during different growth stages. For example as you know, at the time of flowering a plant will have increased PK needs. URB's formulation of microbes are vital in providing the plant with the necessary means of absorbing the appropriate amounts of nutrients it needs at the stage it needs them. This gives crops treated with our products the opportunity to reach optimum growth and yield.
Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria
Action mechanisms of PGPB include the stimulation of root growth, biofertilization and the enhancement of plant stress tolerance.
Act as Biological Control Agents
The URB formulation inhibits plant pathogens and enhances the plant's natural defense mechanisms. This bio-control function is composed predominantly of Trichoderma strains. They generally grow on the root surface and are effective against root disease in particular, but can also be effective against foliar diseases.
URB also increases the plant's resistance against pests. Pests recognize the higher sugar content of URB treated plants and forages and because most pests lack a liver and cannot digest high concentrations of amino acids, this makes the plants an unattractive nutrient source.
Additionally, our products have a saprophytic competence¹ in the soil. In general, saprophytic competence of microbes -- enabling competitiveness and persistence in the soil against less efficient native strains -- is one of the major challenges to the practical utilization of improved commercial inoculants. Test results show that URB products are highly competitive against soil pathogens.
Water Efficiency
URB, particularly the organic liquid humate base, captures additional water and available nutrients from naturally occurring organic matter in the soil for the plant's use. This enables plants to better sustain adverse environmental conditions such as variations in soil pH and moisture issues.
Improved Regulation pH
URB also promotes a healthy soil pH. Soil pH has strong effects on the availability of most nutrients. This is because pH affects both the chemical forms and solubility of nutrient elements. The ideal soil pH for many crops is slightly acid, between about 5.8 and 7.0, because in that range there is well balanced availability for all nutrients. This pH range also promotes an active and diverse soil microbial population and is a healthy range for earthworms and other soil organisms. It has been shown that acide tolerant bacterial strains can more readily generate a pH gradient when grown in acid conditions and can subsequently maintain a more constant internal pH.
Better Organic Matter
URB's microbial formulation is suspended in a 12% humic acid carrier, stabilized at a balance of pH of 7.0, which allows it to effectively work in varied climates and soil conditions. These humates act as a carbon food source for the microbial formulation, are high in organic matter and contain micronutrients, such as calcium, magnesium, zinc and manganese.
