Nut Development and Growth Stages
Apply ASAP Plant Minerals™ anytime to rebuild empty or damaged soil. We test using an early first spring application followed by a second application after pollination to double foliar cover. This ensures an abundance of critical macro and micro nutrients to pack extra phyto-sterols and omega-3 oils into the nuts during kernel filling. Our research is directed toward increasing nutrient density by providing for the needed foliar cover.
ASAP Products recognized the connection between minerals and phytochemical production during our own plant testing. Leaves require magnesium and calcium to grow chlorophyll structures and rigid structures. There is a direct correlation between leaf density early in the cycle (leaf size and leaf number) and final nut size. Understanding the nutritional mineral requirements of this relationship will increase nut enlargement prior to shell hardening and kernel filling by improving the vigor of the tree at a cellular level.
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Soil mineral content over time is dramatically improved with ASAP as it begins to replenish the mineral ratios required for growth.
The best way to get great results and to jump ahead a season is to correctly apply ASAP 15 to 20 days prior to the bud stage then another application 15 to 20 days after bud to stimulate a doubling of mass in leaf size and number. By delivering ASAP at these precise metabolic points in the cycle of growth, it gives a crop plant what it seeks for maximum vegetative growth. It activates minerals for organic construction of cell and stem by amply supplying the greater leaf numbers to create an amplified level of phytochemicals in their fruits. This replenishes much of what was missing in the soil in the first year. Then the following year a single dose a week before budding may be all you need. Either once or twice, your soil will be building to a condition of health never before experienced in agriculture.
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Shown above is a second year growth affect on walnut production. Leaf size was notably larger than normal in the first year and later nut size increased three fold. The small normal nuts are Diamond brand “jumbo” walnuts.


