Soil microbial stimulator that activates beneficial naturally occurring saprophytic microbes in your soil that are responsible for plant material decomposition.
Key Benefits
- Return nutrients and organic matter to the soil for improved plant nutrition
- Increase the soil’s cation exchange capacity (CEC)
- Increase the soil’s water holding capacity
- Improve soil aeration and structure
- Increase new root growth by breaking down old roots in mature orchards and vineyards
- Reduce plant disease by decomposing the organic material it feeds on over winter
- Prepare annual crop seedbeds for the following season
- Breakdown cover crops quickly before planting the following crop
- Activate compost to enhance soil faster.
Key Components
Organic Digester is made from fermentation extracts of the beneficial soil microbe Pseudomonas putida, which work by activating the saprophytic fungi in the soil involved in decomposition.
Mode of Action
Releasing and recycling the nutrients in organic matter back into the soil is done via the process of decomposition.
Enhancing decomposition by activating naturally occurring microbes speeds up this breakdown, delivering a number of benefits like faster crop rotation, soil enhancement and orchard hygiene.
Biostart Organic Digester is a decomposition product that stimulates decomposition microbes for faster breakdown and composting of organic matter.
Organic Digester enhances the decomposition of prunings, leaf litter, cover crops, old roots and post-harvest crop stubble – recycling nutrients faster and more completely and building soil ready for the following seasons’ crops.
Digester comparison
Accelerated breakdown with biostart Digester (nb this is not the organic formulation)
Directions for Use
3-4 L per sprayed ha in a minimum of 200 L of water
Apply Digester directly on to leaf litter, prunings and other crop residues.
Requires soil moisture/rain and active soil biology.
Digester can be tank mixed with herbicides and fertilisers.
Digester can be applied through fertigation and overhead irrigation.
In low organic matter soils, low fertility soils, after long dry spells or high crop residue levels add technical grade ammonium sulphate at 30 kg/ha.
For best results avoid applying Digester in the heat of the day.
Treated crop residues may be lightly incorporated where possible to maintain moisture.
Use the higher rate in blocks with heavy overwintering disease pressure, compacted or waterlogged soil.
4-6 L per sprayed ha in a minimum 200 L of water
Apply Digester directly on to leaf litter, prunings and other crop residues.
Requires soil moisture/rain and active soil biology.
Digester can be tank mixed with herbicides and fertilisers.
Digester can be applied through fertigation and overhead irrigation.
In low organic matter soils, low fertility soils, after long dry spells or high crop residue levels add technical grade ammonium sulphate at 30 kg/ha.
For best results avoid applying Digester in the heat of the day.
Treated crop residues may be lightly incorporated where possible to maintain moisture.
Use the higher rate in blocks with heavy overwintering disease pressure, compacted or waterlogged soil.
2-4 L per sprayed ha in a minimum 200 L of water
Apply via fertigation or with the last weed spray before harvest.
Apply Digester directly on to leaf litter, prunings and other crop residues.
Requires soil moisture/rain and active soil biology.
Digester can be tank mixed with herbicides and fertilisers.
Digester can be applied through fertigation and overhead irrigation.
In low organic matter soils, low fertility soils, after long dry spells or high crop residue levels add technical grade ammonium sulphate at 30 kg/ha.
For best results avoid applying Digester in the heat of the day.
Treated crop residues may be lightly incorporated where possible to maintain moisture.
Use the lower rate in soils with low organic matter.
Compatibility
Digester Organic is compatible with most commonly used herbicides, fertigation nutrients/nutrient sprays and suspension fertiliser.
Physico-chemical Properties
Density (at 20°C) 1.2 kg/L
pH 3.2-4.0
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