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Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

Vegetative and Reproductive Nutrients with John Kempf

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

AEA Marketing

Earth Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.7546 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

I've been asked a lot recently about how to manage vegetative growth versus reproductive growth. On the mini-episode this week, I talk about which nutrients drive strong vegetative growth, and which drive strong reproductive growth and development, along with the hormonal interactions which drive plant dominance. Nutrients in both categories interact with and synergize or antagonize certain plant hormones. These interactions shape how trees and plants develop reproductive buds and fruitwood versus shoot growth. On this episode, I talk about which nutrients are vegetative, which are reproductive, and how to switch plant dominance between vegetative and reproductive stages.

 

4 Vegetative Growth nutrients:

  • Nitrate Nitrogen (not ammonium or urea)
  • Potassium
  • Chloride
  • Calcium

 

Reproductive nutrients:

All other nutrients will bring a slight reproductive response but the below 3 drive the strongest reproductive growth.

  • Manganese
  • Phosphorus
  • Ammonium

  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, friends. I'm John Kemp hosting this podcast. I am passionate about developing regenerative

0:06.1

agriculture systems that improve soil health, produce crops that are completely resistant to diseases

0:11.8

and insects, and produce fruit of such an exceptional quality that we can have a legitimate

0:16.9

conversation about growing food as medicine. I've discovered that there are many people

0:22.2

with incredible knowledge and information about soil and plant systems and how to develop

0:27.7

regenerative agriculture systems. However, much of this knowledge and this information is scattered.

0:33.4

It's found all over the place. Some of it has been published in peer-reviewed publications,

0:38.2

but there are many incredible stories and a lot of knowledge that has not been published,

0:42.7

and that hasn't been shared with many people.

0:44.7

I started advancing eco-agriculture in 2006 to bring this knowledge together in a more coherent fashion

0:52.5

and incorporated into products and growing systems that growers

0:56.7

can easily put into practice.

0:58.8

It's my personal mission to have these regenerative agricultural systems become adopted globally

1:03.4

and become the mainstream, the status quo, against which all other growing systems are

1:09.1

compared.

1:09.8

To help achieve this goal, I want to share the knowledge that we have learned in the last

1:14.8

decade and make it available to everyone.

1:17.5

While we have developed products at AEA that embody the principles of regenerative

1:21.5

agriculture systems and make them easier for growers to apply, this knowledge and these

1:26.2

principles can be applied anywhere,

1:27.8

and when they are applied properly, they will always increase farm profitability and

1:33.7

resilience to climate stress. If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, or ideas,

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