Boost Cotton Growth with Effective Phosphorus Management Strategies

29 Aug 242m 37s

Matt talks about the role of phosphorus in Cotton Production and how he gets it into the plant.

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00:00 We use a, a, a lot of litter. We've been using litter, poultry litter for about, I don't know, 15 years now, maybe 20 years. 00:07 And one thing we've seen, we were putting out a lot of phosphorus, lots of phosphorus. Our, our levels were high in the soil, 00:13 but we couldn't get that phosphorus into the plants. We started with corn and, uh, you know, we'd, we'd get phosphorous in the plants, 00:19 but not the amount that we had in the sole. So we started looking, actively seeking for a product that would translocate that phosphorus from the, 00:27 from the sole to the plant. And so, like I said, we started with corn. We were looking at different levels 00:32 that we had in our tissue samples that we never could get that peak level that we thought we should be able to get 00:38 by the, by the phosphorus we had in the soil. So, so that was our problem. Plenty of phosphorus in the soil, 00:44 not being able to get it in the plant. Well, it's not about what you got in your soil, it's about what you can get in your plant. 00:49 And that's something I've learned, you know, sometimes the hard way is you can be stacked up in your soil, need to eat, but it depends on what's in your plant. 00:58 And so that's something we found with a product called Nutri Charge, is we could get it from the soil of the plant, you know, 01:04 put the application of nutri charge out, get it to translocate from the soil to the plant. So first couple of years we were looking at that 01:11 with corn look really good. So we're like, why will it not work in cotton and all the other different crops we grow also. 01:17 So third year we started putting it in the cotton. Immediately we started getting more phosphorus in our soil. And, you know, this is what we're looking for right here. 01:25 A lot of y'all don't know a lot about cotton, but, but that'll kind of show you, you know, we wanna stack these bowls in here on these limbs. 01:32 These are some, you know, mid-range limbs on the top of the plant and they're pretty impressive. And, you know, we always, you know, with cotton, 01:41 it's a big pot ass user. So we forget about the phosphorus side, but the thing about nutri charge is, 01:46 what it does is it unlocks the bind of the positive and negative charges from all the nutrients and will allow different things to go in the plant 01:54 that normally would not be able to go in the plant. Otherwise, anytime you release those negative and positive charges, you know, 02:00 that gives you an opportunity to get calcium in the plant, which moves nutrients around everywhere. 02:05 It will also let the salt kind of be leached, you know, down below the root zone, 02:10 so we're not antagonized by the salt issues. So if you haven't tried nut Tochar before, it's a product that we've, it's been a mainstay 02:17 of grower practice on our farm now for five or six years. And I think it ought to be something that you should look at 02:23 as far as if you're needing nutrients to be unbound and gone into the plant, use it, grow our standard practice on all of our corn 02:31 and all of our cotton every year.

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