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360g Empathy™ Root Gel for Bare Root Plants

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Rootgrow™ 360g with Gel contains mycorrhizal fungi which naturally increase nutrient and water uptake by forming a highly efficient secondary root system. It is completely natural and plant-friendly fungi suitable for use on flowering plants, trees, shrubs and edibles.

Please Note: If you order this product along with a plant or tree that is available at a later date, this product will be delivered at the same time.



Mycorrhizal Fungi and Your Plant

This quick video will give you a better understanding of what Mycorrhizal Fungi is and how it can help your plant. This remarkable symbiotic relationship will work wonders for your garden.

How Does It Work?

Once joined with the plant this fungi will travel through the soil creating a truly massive root system. This 'hybrid' root system is highly efficient at finding nutrients from places where a plant's root cannot travel, releasing soil bound chemicals, including those from our trusted fertilisers, and transporting these back to its partner, a beneficial relationship that will persist throughout the life of the plant. A healthy plant with an established root system in a functional soil needs less intervention, chemical or physical.

Supported by the Royal Horticultural Society

RHS Gardeners endorse rootgrow™ because rootgrow™ treated plants establish better with greater vigour, replant more successfully, have better developed root systems and cope better with drought conditions.

Benefits Superior water and nutrient uptake with enhanced natural vigour, more abundant flowers and heavier cropping Plants. Need less synthetic fertiliser and will survive better in dry conditions. Added resilience in overcoming replant problems and disease.

Follow these simple steps to planting success with Rootgrow™

  • 1.Dig planting hole as normal.
  • 2.Take a large bucket and fill with 4L of water.
  • 3.Sprinkle the contents of the gel powder sachet into the water and stir well.
  • 4.Leave for 5 minutes then add the dry rootgrow granules and stir well. (the granules should be suspended evenly throughout the thick liquid)
  • 5.Dip the plant roots into the solution ensuring even coverage.
  • 6.Lift the plants out and allow the excess to drain back in to the bucket and plant immediately
  • 7. Plant tree in hole and backfill as normal with compost/soil.
  • 8. If using additional fertiliser add as a top dress or in backfill.
  • 9. Add mulch or top dress as required.

Pots and Packaging
Bare root plants are either wrapped in plastic bags or waxed paper where possible and then placed into a cardboard box.

Preparation
The nursery will ensure the plant is moist while it's waiting to be picked up. Our quality control team waters the plant before packing them where necessary to make sure that the plant is suitably watered for transport. Plants with long delicate stems are secured with canes to prevent damage.

Plant on Arrival
Typically plants are delivered ready to plant and will take some time to settle, grow and look more like the product image above.

Advice on hot and droopy plants

If your plants are looking a little wilted right now, don’t worry! Plants like to be filled with water to keep their structure, and when it’s hot that water evaporates.

Just give them an off-schedule watering and they’ll be right as rain in no time! Be careful not to flood them - plants don’t like extremes.

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We want you to be happy with your purchase from the moment it arrives, but if you aren't you have the right to return it within 14 days. Just head to our Returns Page, send us an email, receive a returns number and fire your product back to us.

We'll refund the full cost as well as standard delivery.

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Why X?

One application will support a plant for its entire lifetime!

Rootgrow has become a planting essential for professional and amature gardeners alike who want to ensure that their plants get off to the best start possible. Sprinkle a little when planting to ensure fantastic root growth and all the benefits that come with it.

In nature plants rely on on a vast array of soil microbes to produce and exchange all of the nutrients required for healthy growth. The most remarkable of these are the mycorrhizal fungi.

Is Collection/Mix? No
Needs Ericaceous Compost? No
Size 360g
Type Mycorrhizal Fungi
Supplied As Bare Root
Supplied As Bare Root
Quantity 360g
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