Starting October 1, Redox will re-enter the turf market with direct sales of an expanded and Redox-branded product line to turf retailers. Customers can reach out directly to us for questions, product information, technical questions, and orders.

The Redox TurfRx™ line includes more than a dozen products, which have been part of a successful formula for golf courses throughout the U.S. and internationally for many years. Our patented products and processes provide significant help in achieving optimum soil health, water retention, thatch reduction, nitrogen efficiency, and other key areas.

Solid decision making is part of the bedrock of successful farming. As we enter prime harvest season for many fruit and nut crops in the San Joaquin Valley, many growers will also begin to crystalize their game plan for 2024.

When harvest wraps up, trees and vines will be depleted of energy and nutrients. Smart strategy should include rebuilding key building blocks for the next season through many strong soil and foliar application options.

Getting your trees and vines back to solid nutritional health will also better safeguard them from abiotic stress. With so much erratic weather this past year, bolstering getting your crops well-positioned for the next season is more important than ever before.

We’re used to it being hot at this time of the year, although the recent temperature spike has still been a jolt to many.

Plants feel that same jolt.

From nut orchards in the Sacramento Valley to wine grapes in Napa County or the Sacramento Delta, this is an important crop development time. Savvy growers understand that reducing abiotic stress will take away a major roadblock to fruit and nut development. Fortunately, there are ways to ease the shock on your crops, while providing superior plant nutrition at the same time.

Proven Redox Bio-Nutrient technology provides highly available nutrition, plus the benefits of biostimulant compounds to mediate seasonal stresses. Products include:

diKaP™, which benefits plant respiration and antioxidant production.

Mainstay™ Si helps with antioxidant production, as well as improving calcium and silicon nutrition.

OXYCOM® Calcium is another of our products that provides widespread benefits, including antioxidants, accelerating photosynthetic activity, and a powerful nutritional boost of calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and sulfur.

With our advanced technology, a relatively small amount of these products can make a significant difference. Growers invest so much time, energy, and resources into their crops. I want to help them ensure that a sweltering summer won’t derail all that effort.

Research Objective
Assess diKaP™ efficacy to improve nitrogen metabolism during hull split to reduce hull rot incidence.

Key Outcomes
diKaP™ reduced the incidence of hull rot by 3 to 6 times.

Background
University research indicates that excess free nitrogen in almonds will lead to hull rot. Focusing on abiotic stress through improved nitrogen metabolism can lead to reduced hull rot incidence.

diKaP™ is formulated to provide efficient potassium and phosphorus. diKaP™ contains proprietary bio-active carbon compounds that improve antioxidant production and nitrogen metabolism. Improved antioxidant production and nitrogen metabolism will increase Abiotic Stress Defense.

Summer is here, and that means rapid vegetative growth in the Pacific Northwest. Many annual crops are growing fast right now, especially early sweet corn fields.

At this point in the growing season the corn plant is rapidly growing, maximizing its nutritional need for potassium. Potassium, being the most prominent inorganic solute in the plant, plays a key role in turgor pressure, water balance, xylem sap flow, and cell extension. This makes the rapid vegetative growth phase, and the fruit setting phase of growth the highest potassium demanding growth stages. Ensuring a sufficient amount of potassium is delivered to plants is key to maintaining yield. Corn, in particular, can peak out in potassium usage at over 100lbs of K per week during the V10-V12 growth stages.

Considering how potassium plays a key role in turgor pressure, stomatal control, xylem sap flow, and nutrient transport, the addition of soluble potassium nutrition to a plant leads to increased mass flow and increased uptake of soluble nutrition. This is why I recommend applications of soluble potassium sources during times of high demand, to help the plant keep pulling from the soil solution. Spoon-feeding K during these times is a great strategy to help ensure the plant has the ability to uptake the large amounts of nutrition needed to meet the demand.

This is a situation where diKaP™ is perfect tool. Many growers use diKaP™ for its abiotic stress reduction, through increased plant respiration and antioxidant production – and for good reason, as it does a fantastic job in this capacity. In fact, benefits of minimizing stress will come into play if temperatures soar later in the growing season, as often happens. However, don’t discount diKaP™ (0-31-50) as a premium nutrition source. The solubility and plant available forms of P and K are exactly what we are looking for to help boost the plants nutritional uptake during times of high nutrient demand. To understand more about potassium’s role in growth and development of plants, read more here.

The results of incorporating diKaP™ are easy to see in the field within a matter of days after application. It’s really an eye-opener for growers utilizing diKaP™ for the first time.  It’s also one of the most valuable tools for a wide variety of growers that I work with, for stress reduction as well as a highly efficient form of potassium nutrition.

For growers along California’s Central Coast, this year has been an extraordinary contrast following years of long-standing drought.  While the storms replenished aquifers, we are still feeling consequences from the barrage. Soggy soils and a persistent marine effect have led to several problems, including reduced acreage due to missed early plantings, increased disease pressure, a multi-week delay in crop maturity, and missed fertility applications as equipment couldn’t get into fields.

The sluggish spring has given way to summer, and I’m working with growers on several fronts to try to clear the hurdles that have been in place all year. This is a crucial time for growers to invest in their crops to help assure volume and quality – especially considering strong produce markets for many commodities and the increasing demand for quality from consumers and retailers.

Our proven strategy employs Redox technology to give plants the best environment to thrive. We’re incorporating H-85™ to improve nitrogen efficiency, as well as Rootex™ and RootRx™ to stimulate root growth and aid plant establishment.

Incorporating Mainstay™ Si and/or diKaP™ in foliar applications helps overcome the constant cloudy conditions that has hurt plant transpiration. This has led to a range of issues, including tip burn in lettuce, blackheart in celery as well as reduction in fruit quality in berries. diKaP™ fits in well with foliar sprays and soil applications, boosting plant potassium to make sure plant respiration is as efficient as possible.  Adding diKaP™ and Mainstay™ Si is easy, compatible and complementary to most pesticide and fungicides and adds to efficiency of application as growers are already paying for the application for their pesticide and fungicide applications so why not add the benefits of nutrition at the same time.

Soil-applied Mainstay™ Calcium 2.0 provides a key influx of calcium, which encourage firm, good-sized berries and contributes to soil health.  It is also becoming better understood how calcium not only is critical to strong cell wall development, it also is critical in the stress messaging response network in plants.

Because planting schedules have been significantly delayed and transplants have been held too long in some cases, we’re noticing some issues with increased “transplant shock”, slow establishment and premature blooms in vegetable transplants like peppers.  This can lead to problems as the crop tries to set fruit before building enough canopy and lead to potential fruit quality problems due to limited canopy coverage.  Excellent ways to get on an improved track include incorporating RootRx™ to foster plant establishment and DermaPlex+™ for root growth and canopy development.

Finally, we largely assume a heat spell will eventually come, and growers need to prepare for that likelihood. We will soon be looking at potassium, calcium and silicon to supplement plants to help overcome late summer heat and the strong winds that usually come with it.

This multi-faceted approach has paid dividends in several crops, both conventional and organic.

Application rates vary among the various crops we work with, but due to the ultra-efficient nature of Redox technology, the amount of our materials that are needed is a small fraction of conventional inputs.  Growers often find that when incorporating Redox products in their program, their costs are reduced and quality and productivity increased.

We have had victories, where through a meticulous approach with inputs, our growers have been able to capitalize on strong markets with their vegetables and berries. When that happens, it’s a win for the vital agricultural industry and for a country dependent on productive farms.

Research Objective
Determine what combination of Redox Bio-Nutrients products provided the best benefit to alfalfa yield and quality.

Key Outcomes
A combination of Redox Bio-Nutrients products increased yield at the second cutting and the relative feed value compared with the untreated.

Research Objective
The purpose of this trial was to document an increase in yield with the application of Mainstay™ Si.

Key Outcomes
With 1 pint/acre of Mainstay™ Si at R3 resulted in an increase in yield of 6.49%.

While there were overall benefits from our wet winter and spring, the downside has been felt by coastal strawberry growers.  Following the wettest period in a generation or more, usually productive fields have struggled to produce many berries so far this year. It has been too cold and too wet to get anything close to normal yields.

I’m working with my growers in Monterey County to incorporate H-85™ Flowable on their strawberry fields, which provides many benefits, including plant stimulation, overall soil health, and nitrogen efficiency. Moisture is better held inside the root zone, helping the symbiotic relationship of the microbes and roots.  At a quart per acre once a week, H-85 provides a key carbon element in the soil, boosting nitrogen metabolism just in time for the key second berry pick for the summer.

We are probably out of our rainy period, and there’s time for berry farms to rebound. The Monterey crop has been several weeks behind a normal pace, and growers hope they can return to normal fruit production, while still finding a window without a lot of competition from Santa Maria and Oxnard.

Hopefully for summer picnic season and the Fourth of July, there’s a much steadier strawberry supply from Monterey County that will be enjoyed by consumers far and wide.

Achieving maximum potential of turf growth and health begins with root development.  But not all soils are equal in their ability to foster strong roots.

If everything the plant needed was already in the soil, you wouldn’t need to add fertilizer.  The fact is that, in most growing environments, phosphorus inputs are a necessary part of root development.  A sufficient amount of plant available phosphorus is required in the soil, to provide the energy source for root development.

Unfortunately, this increasing regulated and expensive nutrient source is easily tied up in the soil with positive charged elements such as calcium (Ca++) and iron (Fer++). Phosphorus tie-up is a serious agronomic problem, particularly in low carbon-based soils where divalent cations such as calcium, iron and zinc are present.