Hort Science Live 2024 Previewed | ICL Podcast

HortWeek editor Matt Appleby speaks with ICL’s Andrew Wilson, Matthew Miller, Steven Chapman and Sam Rivers to preview Hort Science Live.

ICL Hort Science Live explore the latest technologies and management practices growers need to produce quality resilient plants in sustainable media. Wilson will lead the ‘How to rethink plant nutrition’workstation, taking growers through ICL’s 2024 peat-free Osmocote 5 trials, exploring different rates and longevities. He will highlight the specific nutrition challenges of peat-free growing media and explain how the latest generation of water soluble and CRFs can address any issues.

Chapman’s ‘Breakthroughs in woodfibre – sustainable alternatives for the future’ workstation will feature the latest developments in Fibagro Advance, including two new finer grades. The session will report on ICL’s new peat-free mixes trial – which including 100% woodfibre – before addressing water management with H2Gro and how to tailor watering regimes to specific crops. He said ICL is trying to source all UK ingredients.

The ‘New dawn for biostimulants’ workstation will be led by Rivers, who will update growers on new product registration regulations and recent trials, showing improvements in rooting, establishment and nutrient uptake – as well as reductions in the impact of N drawdown. HSL 2024 will be held at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), at Cambridge.

This one-day, grower-focused event will be repeated on two consecutive days – July 3 and 4 (10-2.30).

• July 2nd | Distributor & PSM Day | Book HERE
• July 3rd | Grower Day 1 | Book HERE
• July 4th | Grower Day 2 | Book HERE