Seaweeds ~ Soil and Plant Food by Herbert Rosenauer, Biochemist

This paper was prepared for the International Horticultural Congress in Nice, France 1958. It is offered as a supplement to Graham Potter's article Seaweed Products in Horticulture

I became intrested is seaweed extract when I realised it was a great safe source of Auxin for my stressed trees. I would have liked the article to discuss the hormonal aspects of Seaweed extract in greater detail.
This article seems to state there are many other benifits of using it even on healthy trees. The balancing of the soil allowing the tree to uptake nutrients easier is very intresting.
I must query this statment

Apart from providing all the main elements needed by plants - Nitrogen, Potash, Phosphorus, Calcium, Boron, Chlorine, Sulphur, Copper, Cobalt, Iron, Zinc, Manganese, Magnesium, Molybdenum, seaweed is a complex base exchange substance

as I was always of the understanding that seaweed extract although having many trace elements had very little nutritional value. It in fact states this on the bottles I purchase??

Liquefied seaweed, of coarse, correctly applied, gives to the soil the properties of compost.

I wonder what would be constituded as correctly applied. When he also states.

Liquefied seaweed is non-toxic and non-alkaline and can be applied in any dilution to the soil as kind of a special compost

When is S.S. gonna start selling seaweed extract?

Soon as the new site is up Jase...but I'll be happy to share some of my bottle for now

BONSAI_OUTLAW wrote:When is S.S. gonna start selling seaweed extract?

ummmmmmmmmm....

Not to take away any future business from Tom but seaweed extract is available everywhere, well at least around here.

The reason I mention this is that businesses cannot stock everything or soon go out of business. There is a product that they believe in that is being offered Mean Green, it has both Tom and Colin's endorsement. Large inventories collect dust, are a large expenses to maintain and are just not profitable IMO. Keeping inventories to a minimum is what makes a business profitable, not to mention quality products.

In closing I believe in the following statement: ""Don't try to do it all, but whatever you do, do it well"

I remember Tom and I had a discussion a while back wrt screen mesh. He has a large roll that is sold at basically wholesale price, but customers still believe they are getting a better product if it is packaged for bonsai and yes they are paying a larger price for it, nothing wrong with that but I'd rather save my money where I can to buy that expensive pot for a special tree etc...

There is a product that they believe in that is being offered Mean Green, it has both Tom and Colin's endorsement.

Errrrrrrrr *cough* Mmmmmmmmmmm its Green Dream.....Mean Green is the competition

My humble apologies Sir Tom, dang competition using similar names. My bad... tsk tsk