Edwards Advanced Seaweed and EASy BioN for horticulture

“Applying Edwards Advanced Seaweed and BioN positively influences a plant's health and growth”.

Edwards Advanced Seaweed is a bespoke blend of liquid Ascophyllum nodosum extract harvested from the North Sea off the Scottish coast, and humic substances. BioN is a consortium of 8 different species of natural soil bacteria, manufactured in the UK. The application of these 3 biostimulants on your plant and soil improves soil fertility, increases the nutrient and water holding capacity of both soil and plant, enhances the functionality of the plants root system and boosts the plants biochemical activity utilising the bioactive substances within Edwards Advanced Seawe

ed and BioN. They enhance the plants water and nutrient use efficiency and make a positive impact on the plants ability to manage stress.

Edwards Advanced Seaweed contains Ascophyllum nodosum from the British North Sea. Nutrients are extracted by crushing the seaweed and collecting the liquid component to ensure retention of the essential bioactive substances that promote plant growth and boost the plants natural defence mechanisms.

Seaweed is a complex mixture containing phytohormones, polyphenols, enzymes, vitamins, minerals, polysaccharides and polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are utilised by the plant and the soil bacteria to stimulate many different physiological processes involved in plant growth, development and internal defence.

Seaweed has long been known to promote root initiation, elongation, biomass, and hence increase the total root surface area on which nutrients are absorbed. It contains macro and micro nutrients, antioxidant enzymes, growth regulators, vitamins, polysaccharides and secondary metabolites to name just a few! These regulate the molecular, physiological and biochemical mechanisms within the plant to increase productive parameters and resistance to stress, both abiotic and biotic.Seaweed also helps modulate the rhizosphere microbial composition which in turn contributes to the regulation of plant defence responses.

Abiotic (stress from the environment, excess or lack of water, heat)

Seaweed helps regulate the plants antioxidant pathways, thus reducing cellular decomposition, the closure of the stomata to prevent excessive moisture loss and nutrient uptake interruption. Seaweed helps the plant adapt to the stress it is exposed to throughout its life cycle. 

Biotic (stress from pathogens, pests, viruses)

Plants have an innate immune response system that is triggered when under attack. Seaweed activates a systemic acquired resistance or induces systemic resistance by utilising a complex network of signalling molecules including salicylic acid, jasmonic acid and ethylene. This gives the plant a kick start when fighting an attack.

Edwards Advanced Seaweed also contains humic substances, which are decomposed animal and plant material obtained from mined leonardite, containing organic matter and bioactive substances. Humic substances have the capability to improve the soil's cation exchange, water retention and nutrient transfer; they are nature's soil improver. They have the capacity to stimulate growth, enhance root development and nutrient uptake within the plant, and boosts the plants ability to withstand environmental stresses. They provide an ideal home for the third biostimulant in our three-pronged approach, natural soil bacteria.

BioN contains eight different species of natural soil bacteria specifically selected to promote plant nutrient acquisition and stress tolerance. The evolution of life below ground is synergistic, with the establishment of working relationships between plant, soil and bacteria. This relationship has been broken by man's mechanical and chemical soil interventions, destroying their home and food source in one fell swoop. Edwards Advanced Seaweed provides a food source and home with its seaweed and humic substances. 

Plants are static, in the absence of soil bacteria they only have access to nutrients their roots have direct contact with. Bacteria are the soils A roads, they convert inaccessible plant nutrients into plant available forms and transport nutrients to the plants roots. They produce plant hormones that induce systemic resistance with anti-fungal and antimicrobial properties and chelate metal ions.

Humification, the ultimate recycle, where nothing is wasted. 

Edwards Advanced Seaweed promotes microbial colonisation of both the phyllosphere (above ground surface and area immediately around the plant) and the rhizosphere (below ground surface and area immediately around the roots) essential for regenerative horticultural practices. 

Edwards Advanced Seaweed and BioN’s impact on the fruit plant/tree. 

• Increased productive parameters, improvement in fruit quality, an increase in antioxidant activity, vitamin C content (to help with biotic stress), total phenols (defence against ultraviolet radiation or aggression by pathogens or parasites) and total soluble solids (fructose, sucrose).

• Increased availability of phytohormones, gibberellin, cytokinin, auxin, abscisic acid, brassinosteroids (growth regulators stimulating different physiological processes involved in the plant's growth and development).

• Increase hydrogenase activity (resulting in a reduction in energy losses associated with nitrogen fixation) within the soil. Increase invertase (sugar breakdown), urease (required for efficient nitrogen assimilation), proteinase (participates in everything associated with nitrogen-senescence, abscission, fruit ripening, plant growth), phosphatase.

• Increase in microbiological activity, nitrogen fixation from the atmosphere, phosphate and potassium cycling within the soil.

• Improved chlorophyll content resulting in improved photosynthesis rate, stomal conductance and electron transfer rate.

• Increased anthocyanin content results in an increase in fruit colour.

• Reduced chlorophyll degradation resulting in delayed leaf senescence.

• Increase in leaf surface area and shoot length. Improved root growth via improved elongation and root architecture modulation.

• Improves moisture and nutrient retention with minimal leaching, and improves soil texture.

• Increased nutrient transfer and absorption via the root, and increased nutrient use efficiency.

• Increased stress disease resistance by regulating the molecular, physiological and biochemical mechanisms within the plant (see above).

• Maintains good soil health and beneficial microflora.