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Functional Soils (FS) microbial products offer a simple, cost-effective solution to efficiently improve your plant health. Not another fertilizer or biostimulant, FS microbes use fungal endophytes that are specifically chosen and uniquely formulated to benefit your trees, turf and general landscapes. Endophytes are scientifically proven to elevate nutrient uptake, improve stress tolerance and strengthen turf against disease. Safe for your fields, forests, staff and applicators, our proprietary blend builds the biology back into your plants.

Plain and simple, applying FS microbes fits easily into your current operational procedures for vegetation establishment, maintenance, or recovery. Adding FS microbial products provides an overall benefit to your plants, improving resilience to stress and disease over time. More than just maintenance, FS microbes are the added boost needed for heavily distressed plants where plant recovery is challenging. FS products are a powerful, affordable tool to make better use of your time and resources.

Yes, FS microbes can be applied with a number of products. FS microbes are not only field compatible with most fertilizers and many pesticides, they can be tank-mixed in the same tanks you use for those products.

FS microbes are not compatible with fungicides, as fungicides will kill the beneficial group of fungal microbes in our mix. However, FS microbes can be deployed strategically around your fungicide applications to increase efficacy.

Functional Soils recommends — Applying FS microbes 5–7 days after fungicide applications is ideal to ensure its impact as you maintain your current fungicide program. Application of microbes after a fungicide application allows the microbes to form symbiosis with resident plants, and ensures the biome is filled with beneficial microbes. The microbes applied will challenge disease in the vegetation from taking hold, ensuring your plants have the tools they need to thrive. Continuing FS microbe applications will mitigate the use of fungicides and repopulate the biome with beneficials.

The best time to apply FS microbes is when the soil temperature is above freezing. Cooler spring conditions are ideal, prior to vegetative growth accelerating as temperatures warm. The earlier microbes are applied, the greater likelihood of maintaining their population, which strengthens your plant over the whole year. Microbes can be applied in the shoulder season as they will survive regardless, but best functionality is in reasonably warm soil, holding temperature longer.

Functional Soils recommends — If insufficient water is applied with your current application, irrigation can be used to achieve a drench rate. FS microbes can be applied during rainfall as it will not wash through your soil or plants. Wetting agents are another sound method of application.

More than solely for established vegetative maintenance, FS microbes are a powerful tool where vegetation is highly damaged, seed won’t establish, or to enhance recovery.