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Tree Planting & Transplants
Revitalize Your soil. Grow with Cool Terra.
Applications and Use: For innovative tree care managers and green industry professionals interested in optimizing key soil performance characteristics for quality, resiliency, and beautiful tree plantings and transplants.Cool Terra has shown consistent ability to improve transplant success and reduced transplant mortality.
Cool Terra helps tree care managers and green industry professionals improve soil quality which can lead to more successful and longer lasting tree plantings and transplants, as well as shrub and woody ornamental plantings. Cool Terra products have been shown to increase AMF and other beneficial fungal populations in the soil and Cool Terra’s extensive porosity and surface area work to improve transplant success and plant establishment through increased root development and greater tree resiliency to stressors.
By incorporating Cool Terra into the soil root zone operators can provide more successful and longer lasting plants while achieving greater productivity. On top of that, Cool Terra sequesters carbon and benefits the sustainability of the entire operation.
Revitalize your soil. Grow with Cool Terra.
Cool Terra is the world’s only fixed carbon root zone amendment produced with Cool Planet’s patented Engineered Biocarbon™ technology processes that create biochar-based products specifically designed to ensure predictability, consistency, and performance.
Cool Terra provides a microbial habitat with optimal nutrient and water holding capacity, as well as structural improvements for your soil.
“At Cool Planet, there is a level of scientific approach that speaks to the very nature of basic science. They really want to understand what this material does in the soil.”
Francesca Cotrufo, Soil Ecologist Colorado State University
“‘Where can you get the most bang out of your buck?’ When you’re rooting cuttings, you’re basically treating every plant at a small scale. With Cool Terra, you’re literally treating thousands of plants with a small amount of material. The slower-growing plants, like camellias, rhododendrons, even azaleas, there’s where you see the benefit.”
Mark Crawford, Loch Laurel Nursery
"biochar, biocarbon or pyrogenic carbon can be a very long lasting microhabitat for fungi and other microbes. The shape and size of these microsites are determined by the molecular machinery of the plant that made the carbohydrate. Fungi have similar molecular machinery and produce structure at the same scale. Therefor, many other natural organic substances like compost have microsites scaled for hyphae. A key difference is that that charring changes the biocarbon into a form that is extremely difficult for microbes to decay, yet the fine structure created by the original living enzymes remains. This refractory nature also allows engineering the biocarbon with precise heating and chemical treatments optimizes the development of the rhizosphere for establishment of the root system. And results in a consistent product. ”
John Law, Brightview
“We are faced with tremendous challenges in agriculture and the turf and ornamental markets. Productivity must increase at a time when our soils are degraded, we are challenged to be more efficient with inputs like water and fertilizer and society is demanding more sustainable practices. Cool Terra is such an innovation that will help us address many of these challenges.”
Gene Maddux, Triangle Chemical Company
Increase Root Development
Cool Terra’s specifically engineered material characteristics – including high porosity and extensive surface area– adds structure to the soil for greater water and nutrient efficiency, benefiting accessibility for plant roots
Support Planting and
Transplant Success
By establishing a solid foundation for growth by improving key soil performance characteristics, Cool Terra can help limit transplant and new planting mortality rates. Cool Terra has been shown to improve plant establishment through quicker germination and increased root development.
Promote sustainable
operations
Most Cool Terra products are OMRI certified organic and USDA certified as 100% biobased. The fixed-carbon nature of Cool Terra allows for carbon sequestration benefits in commercial landscaping, street tree, home garden, and more tree planting sites. On top of that, Cool Terra can enable operators to use water and fertilizer more judiciously!
Engineered for easy application
By incorporating Cool Terra into the tree and shrub root hole, key soil performance characteristics can be enhanced. Cool Terra works to unlock the potential of the soil for improved plant available water, nutrient retention, biological environment and microbial growth, structure, and sustainability.
Regardless of your unique situation, you can easily use Cool Terra. Cool Terra is specifically engineered for easy, economical, low-rate usage and can be simply blended with existing backfill mixes.
Tree and shrub planting and transplants
Plant & transplant
Mix with backfill. For example, apply Cool Terra Organic to root hole at a rate of 1.2 lbs (1 qt.) / 5 gallons of backfill.
Available through your local distributor in a range of sizes. For example, one popular product is Cool Terra Organic which is available in the following sizes:
Cool Terra Application Scenarios and Benefits by Crop Type
Golf & Sports Turf
- Apply during aerification of existing turf or prior to seeding or sodding new turf
Landscapes & Gardens
- Apply into the top 4” of soil for broad landscaping plantings and (or) compaction relief
- Can be blended with additional materials for hydroseeding
Nursery & Greenhouse
- Apply directly to soil media or mix with bulk soils, compost, or topdressings
Tree Planting & Transplants
- Apply directly to the transplant or new planting root hole
Cool Terra’s specifically engineered properties can deliver multiple benefits:
- Improved soil water holding capacity and nutrient efficiency
- Enhanced turf resiliency and quality
- Improved soil structure and compaction relief
- Revitalized soil characteristics in sub-optimal growing areas
- Plant establishment impact through quicker germination and increased root development
- Complimentary benefits to existing media regimes
- High new tree planting and transplant success rates
- Long-lasting soil root zone benefits
Contact Us for Cool Terra Information
call 303-221-2029
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