Transplant Shock and Sustainable Maintenance

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Transplant Shock and Sustainable Maintenance
Contact James J. Quinn Tel [phone], Fax
888-386-4478 jim_at_hortall.com
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Company Overview

• Established in 1997 based in Sarasota
• Our focus is on complete plant and soil health
• Small Runs
• We only use the finest natural ingredients
• Current commercial markets
• Arbor
• Greenhouse/Nursery
• DOT, Parks, Cities, etc
• Landscaping
• Maintenance
• Soil Cons., Forestry, Xmas
• Turf, Sports Fields, Cemetery

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Quality Control

• All inoculum from suppliers are grown
• to our specifications and tested for
  infectivity potential before they are used to
  make your products.
• Certificates of analysis are required from all
  suppliers on each order from us to insure that
  you consistently get the best ingredients
  available.

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Current Market Demands

• Healthy, robust trees and shrubs
• Green, environmentally-friendly solutions
• Improvement in fertilizer, pesticide and
  herbicide efficiency
• Fewer applications
• Reduction in transplant shock and losses
• State and local regulations
• Significantly reducing nitrogen
• Reducing or eliminating phosphorus
• Limiting pesticides

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Our Specification Objectives

• To Naturalize nursery plants during
  installation
• How to create a soil environment that is
  sustainable and fosters plant and soil health to
  reduce costs and maintenance.

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What is Transplant Shock?

• Refers to a number of stresses occurring in
  recently planted trees and shrubs involving the
  failure of the plant to root well thus being
  unable to establish itself in the landscape.

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Not What the Client Intended
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Neither is This
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Etc.
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Etc.
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What Causes Transplant Shock?

• Nursery plants are not natural(Grown very fast
  without attention to natural systems.)
• Planting sites are not natural.
• Water management is critical.(Often irrigation
  is not ready for plantings, etc.)
• Items 4 204(this list could go on, and on)

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Nursery Plants Not Natural

• Nursery plants are grown to meet physical
  specifications.
• All attention is to inventory turnover.
• Many of the natural immune systems plants have
  all evolved with are not present.
• BB have had up to 60 of roots removed

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Planting Sites Not Natural

• Fill soils are typically sourced sub surface and
  are usually dead.
• Heavy equipment compact soils and kills
  beneficial microorganisms therein.
• Even undisturbed soils are not homogeneous.

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Various Planting Conditions
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Various Planting Conditions
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Various Planting Conditions
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Various Planting Conditions
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Water Management

• Watering Changes
• Nursery 2 or 3 x per day if needed
• Landscape 1 x day is norm (up once a week)
• Poorly drained soils
• Often the irrigation is not installed but plants
  are

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Does this make sense?
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The DIEHARD Difference
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We Add this to the Ground
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Our Ingredients

• WATER MANGEMENT GELS WATER IS THE MOST
  IMPORTANT. TOO LITTLE, OR TOO MUCH.

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Our Ingredients

• WATER MANGEMENT GELS WATER IS THE MOST
  IMPORTANT. TOO LITTLE, OR TOO MUCH.
• MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI Beneficial fungi that all
  plants must have to flourish in the landscape
  most plants from a nursery dont have it.

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Our Ingredients

• WATER MANGEMENT GELS WATER IS THE MOST
  IMPORTANT. TOO LITTLE, OR TOO MUCH.
• MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI Beneficial fungi that all
  plants must have to flourish in the landscape and
  that all plants do not have from a nursery.
• BENEFICIAL BACTERIA Makes organic matter
  available to plants, helps against viruses and
  solubilizes N-P-K

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Our Ingredients

• WATER MANGEMENT GELS WATER IS THE MOST
  IMPORTANT. TOO LITTLE, OR TOO MUCH.
• MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI Beneficial fungi that all
  plants must have to flourish in the landscape and
  that all plants do not have from a nursery.
• BENEFICIAL BACTERIA TO PUT LIFE IN THE SOIL,
  CONVERT ORGANICS AND PROTECT THE PLANT.
• TRICHODERMA FUNGI FOR HIGH WATER TABLES AND TO
  PROTECT THE HOST.

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Our Ingredients

• WATER MANGEMENT GELS WATER IS THE MOST
  IMPORTANT. TOO LITTLE, OR TOO MUCH.
• MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI Beneficial fungi that all
  plants must have to flourish in the landscape and
  that all plants do not have from a nursery.
• BENEFICIAL BACTERIA TO PUT LIFE IN THE SOIL,
  CONVERT ORGANICS AND PROTECT THE PLANT.
• TRICHODERMA FUNGI FOR HIGH WATER TABLES AND TO
  PROTECT THE HOST.
• HUMIC ACID STIMULATES BACTERIA (ORGANIC FOOD),
  IMPROVES SOIL STRUCTURE, PLANT RESPIRATION, ETC.
• SEA KELP MINORS GALORE
• YUCCA A NATURAL SURFACTANT

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Applications

• Landscape Installations
• Trees and shrubs (Transplant)
• Palms (Palm Transplant)
• Beds, Flowers, Turf and Containers (Complete)
• Bare root stock (Root Dip)
• Water Tank Treatment (Solu-Boost)
• On-going Maintenance
• Biostimulants (BioRush)
• Biostimulants and NPK (BioRush Plus)

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• Mix with backfill in the top 8-10 inches
• Each 8 oz bag treats a 2 caliper tree
• One time application
• About 6.00 per bag
• Also available in 25 lb bags

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• Mix in upper 10-12 inches of pit
• 1 8oz bag will treat 2ft or less
• Also contains
• Horta-Sorb Gel
• Endomycorrhiza
• Beneficial bacteria
• Trichoderma
• Sea Kelp
• Yucca

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• Used for beds, turf, flowers and containers
• Bed rate 2 lbs per 100 sq ft
• Turf rate 3 lbs per 1000 sq ft
• Container rate 3 lbs per cubic yard

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Mix with water and let stand 15 mins. Dip or
spray roots and or package for shipping.
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• Mix at rate of 1 lb per 25-100 gallons of water
• For Established Trees
• Root Drench Drench at base of tree.
• One lb treats about 50 trees.
• For New Tree Plantings
• Mix with water and use as a mud-in drench when
  planting.
• One lb treats about 165 new trees.

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• Used for on-going maintenance
• Mix 1 lb per 100 gallons of water
• Repeat every 4-6 weeks
• Turf 1 lb treats 40,000 sqft
• Trees/Shrubs use as foliar or drench
• Sod 1 lb fpr 40,000 sqft
• Beds 1 lb treats 40,000 sqft

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Used for on-going maintenance Mix 1 lb per 100
gallons of water Repeat every 4-6 weeks Turf 1
lb treats 10,000 sqft Trees/Shrubs use as foliar
or drench Sod 1 lb for 10,000 sqft Beds 1 lb
treats 10,000 sqft
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The DIEHARD Difference
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Our Free Services

• Send us a plant list and we will tell you the
  amount of materials required for the job
• We can educate your contractors on use
• Provide purchase and verification
• On-Site instruction

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Examples of Cost
New Plantings 6.00 for a 2 inch caliper
Established Trees 100 for a tree with a 50 ft. spread
Flower Beds 0.25/sq.ft. lasts years in the soil
Turf 9 cents per sq. ft.
Gels 1.2 cents per sq.ft. with sod 4.5 cents per sq. ft. with flower beds 9.00 per cu. Yard with mixes
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• Questions?
• James (Jim) Quinn
• [phone] (Cell)
• 800-628-6373 (Office)