{"id":93,"date":"2025-10-20T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:18:47","slug":"seed-soaking-in-bio-sustain-solution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/resources\/seed-soaking-in-bio-sustain-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Seed Soaking in Bio-Sustain Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Seed Soaking<\/strong><\/h3>

Germinating is one of the slower parts of the seeding process.
Soaking seeds in Bio-Sustain solution speeds up the germination process and achieves higher germination rates and crop yields.<\/p>

Based on trial results soaking seeds in a\u00a0biofertilizer solution<\/a> showed significantly increased germination\u2013 by more than 20% \u2013 and higher yields \u2013 by up to 30% The applied biofertilizer treatments<\/a>\u00a0stimulated the germination and growth by excreting phytohormones and enhancing the nutrient mobilization from the seed.<\/div>
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The application of bacteria (PGPB \u2013plant growth promoting bacteria) as biofertilizers is increasing due to the low level of animal husbandry and the utilization of organic fertilizers. As a consequence, soils become poor in useful bacteria. PGPB indicate a group of bacteria actively colonizing plant roots, thus increasing the growth and yield of the plant.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Soaking seeds prior to planting, helps the EM (effective microorganisms) and water solution to soften and penetrate the seed coat. Water penetration is essential, to awakening the seed germ inside, and causing it to sprout.<\/p>

In general, seeds with hard seed coats, larger seeds, and slow to sprout seeds, will benefit the most by seed soaking.<\/p>

Note:\u00a0<\/b>Water penetration is one essential ingredient to begin the seed sprouting process. The other is warmth. Once the seed has sprouted, other factors are important, among them air, light and nutrients.<\/p>

Place the grass seed in a porous material. Use a cheesecloth or burlap sack. Tie at the top to form a bag. Place this sack with seed in a covered container. A fish tank works well for this.<\/p>

  • Soak the seed in water for 24 hours.<\/li>
  • Remove seed from container.<\/li>
  • Drain excess water from seed and bag.<\/li>
  • Prepare seeding area.<\/li>
  • Follow specific seed starting instructions for the seed variety that you are using.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Seed Soaking Germinating is one of the slower parts of the seeding process.Soaking seeds in Bio-Sustain solution speeds up the germination process and achieves higher germination rates and crop yields. Based on trial results soaking seeds in a\u00a0biofertilizer solution showed significantly increased germination\u2013 by more than 20% \u2013 and higher yields \u2013 by up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2920,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-93","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions\/2927"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agritek.co.nz\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}