After you leave the site, how well will those plants perform? How will the roots adapt to this new situation?
In the end, the success of the roots determines the success of the plant.
Root Rescue's Transplanter is formulated and proven to help new plants adapt to the soil environment on all planting sites. The formulation delivers a host of dormant mycorrhizal fungi directly and evenly to the root zone of the plant. Delivering the fungal spores into the soil around the roots wakes them up – and within days they will begin to form a beneficial symbiosis with plant roots. These fascinating fungi are native to the roots of plants (in undisturbed natural environments) all over North America where they work continuously with plant roots to find resources in the soil that the roots alone cannot find. Plants in the wild universally rely on these ancient microbes - but - for a number of reasons, mycorrhizal fungi are in very low numbers in urban and suburban soils. To learn more about why mycorrhizal fungi are in such low populations in urban soils, please watch our 3-part YouTube video presentation.
Plants that have a community of mycorrhizae working with their roots are much more resilient and are ready to cope with the shock of being moved from the nursery into their new setting. The result is Plant Success – not plant failure. Happy plants mean happy clients. The client doesn't want to see their beautiful new plants fail – and you don't want to get the phone call when they do.
If you are planting-out trees on commercial or municipal projects, Transplanter is especially valuable. Trees and shrubs in these settings get very little (or no) after-care once your crew has left the planting site. These plants need all the help they can get to adapt and thrive – especially in the first few weeks and months after planting. The University of Guelph tested Transplanter on several different planting sites from 2009 through 2013. The summer of 2012 was one of the hottest and driest on record, and Transplanter performed beautifully; dozens of untreated test trees didn't survive that summer – almost all of the treated ones did. Follow this link to check out the results.