Effective Pollination and Fertilization are essential to tree fruit and nut production as well as many other crops ranging from Kiwi Fruit to Seed Alfalfa. Vericet is the result of extensive, painstaking research in the field and laboratory, and the culmination of many years experience in the marketplace with growers whose livelihoods depend on the efficiency of the products and practices they employ.
Vericet
This ‘next generation’ Pollination and Fertilization enhancement, derives from this extensive body of knowledge and experience, bringing to the grower a proven tool to maximize pollination.
Vericet is applied to the orchard via honey-bees or mechanical dusters and impinges on the tissues of the plant, especially the several parts of the flower itself that are exposed during the effective pollination period.
As soon as it lands on the plant, Vericet’s highly motile components begin to migrate through the plants tissues toward those regions where nutrient intake is most active (The germinating pollen tube and the developing Ovules).
By supplying these essential components at the right place and the right time, these processes, so vital to crop load, are maximized enabling the plant to make the most of its limited window of opportunity.
Pollen Applied in Conjunction with Vericet Benefits Pollination Even Further:
Once a pollen grain has grown a tube down the style and deposited it’s nuclei in the ova, it’s job is finished. Right?
Right. But this task is not without challenges. As soon as the pollen alights on the surface of the stigma, it is beset by certain limiting factors hampering it’s ability to achieve successful fertilization.
- Low Temperature can limit the rate of pollen tube growth and prevent fertilization from taking place. For crops in which pollination occurs during early spring or in cooler climates, this can be particularly problematic.
- Insufficient levels of certain key nutrients necessary for vigorous and accurate pollen tube growth can also result in failure of the pollen tube to successfully reach the ova and complete fertilization.
Vericet can overcome these limiting factors.
Once the pollen has alighted on the stigma, Vericet provides germinating pollen with key nutrients, specially com-posed to enhance it’s ability to grow rapidly and accurately down the style and complete fertilization. Even at lower than optimum temperatures, pollen tubes will grow faster with Vericet than without it. This could mean the difference between setting a crop and not setting one.
Vericet can be used as an additive to pollen applied both with bees or with ‘blow-on’ applicators.
Used with pollen applied in beehive dispensers, Vericet is mixed with the pollen before being placed in the
dispenser. Not only will it enhance pollen tube growth, but various field trials have shown that it enhances bee activity too.
In blower applicators, Vericet can be used as the carrier agent, replacing old-fashioned, inert carriers (used primarily to account for imperfect machinery calibration), while supplying a rich source of energy and key nutrients applied at just the right time and place to get maximal impact in this all-important process.
Vericet can enhance P&F in:
• Almond
• Apple
• Apricots
• Avocado
• Cherry
• Pears
• Plums
-Pluots
-Apriums
• Pistachio
• Kiwifruit
• Seed Alfalfa
• Seed Onion
• Seed Broccoli
• Walnuts
• All Crops requiring pollination
What does Vericet Do?
• Increases Germination Rate
and Vigor of Pollen Grains
• Enhances Health and
Receptivity of the Flower
• Increases activity of Honey
Bees/Pollinating Insects.
• Effective with Controlled
Pollination or Used Alone.
How does Vericet Work?
• Balanced Minerals
• Rich Source of Carefully
Selected Carbon Units
• Metabolic Accelerators
• Added Micronutrients
• Increased Enzyme Function
• Easy Pick-up/Delivery by Bees
• Hygroscopic properties create
effective ‘sticking’ to Plant Tissues
Antles Pollen provides 24/7 customer service support for all our products. Answers to your questions are just a phone call away.
AVAILABLE POLLENS
Almond • Apple • Apricot • Avocado • Cherry • Hazelnut • Kiwifruit • Pear • Pecan • Pistachio • Plum • Pluot