Product Description and Uses
- A fine, substantially dust free, matured, European pine bark designed for use in mixes with peat or suitable alternatives for the vegetative propagation of nursery stock and a wide range of other plants.
Typical Crop Applications
- Nursery stock, alpines, herbaceous perennials, pot plants, micropropagation weaning, hardwood winter cuttings etc.
User Benefits
- The natural durability and stability of pine bark make it the ideal growers' bark species
- This product is suitable for Soil Association approved growers or producers
- Promotes the rapid development of strong, healthy root systems
- Free-flowing texture for easy filling of both open and plug trays
- Promotes free drainage and high A.F.P. thus helping to prevent root rot
- Equally suitable for ericaceous and non-ericaceous subjects
- Safe to use with controlled release fertilizers, which promote stronger root growth, greater stem diameters and more budding
- Enables less peat to be consumed
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Product Features
- Produced from European pine bark
- Melcourt Propagating BarkTM is approved by the Soil Association as a Restricted Input for organic systems.
- Fine free-flowing texture
- Free draining
- Particles nominal 2 to 7 mm in size
- Excellent air-filled porosity of 48%
- pH 4.5 - 5.5
- Low nutrient content
- Pest, weed and disease free
- Evidence of a degree of pathogen suppression
- Blends easily with peat and other propagating materials
- Equally suitable under mist, fog, and/or polythene
- Suitable for seed composts, e.g. forest tree seeds
- Toxin free
- Pleasant odour
How to Use
- Melcourt Propagating BarkTM can be used at percentages of 25 to 100 by volume in the mix. It is equally effective with peat, coir and other suitable propagating materials.
- Melcourt Propagating BarkTM blends easily with other compost ingredients whether mixed by hand or machine. Particularly good results can be achieved if controlled release fertilizer is incorporated into the mix. Use according to the manufacturers recommendations.
- Supplementary nitrogen and lime are not required.
Crop Management
- Propagating media containing Melcourt Propagating BarkTM are ideal for use with any type of management system, including mist, fog, and/or polythene. No changes to crop management should be necessary, although it is important to be aware that the medium may be more open than a peat/grit mix and may therefore require slightly more water.
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