Repair Compaction & Improve Drainage
As soon as it hits the soil the DCT product starts working its way down through the soil profile carrying with it organic acids and beneficial carbon, the organic chemistry binds to and starts breaking down soil particles making them more porous.
The soil pores are the empty spaces or voids within soil that are not occupied by solid particles.
This increased soil porosity allows for better water infiltration and drainage as well as
Improving
root growth
soil organisms’ growth and activity
nutrient availability & holding
movement of air within the soil
friability of the soil
DCT Product’s promote root growth by improving the soil structure, increasing nutrient availability, and enhancing root growth hormones. It also helps the roots absorb water more efficiently, leading to healthier and longer roots.
Promoting Root growth.
Increasing soil pore space makes it easier for roots to penetrate the soil allowing for roots to grow deeper and stronger.
Long roots are important for plants because they anchor the plant in the soil and provide access to water and nutrients.
Longer roots can also help plants access deeper sources of water and nutrients which becomes especially important during periods of drought or low rainfall and environmental stresses below and above the ground.
Before
1 year later
DCT products help the soil work like a sponge, allowing excess water to drain away while keeping enough water in the soil for plant and biological life.
Good soil drainage helps prevent waterlogging and allows excess water to drain away, which promotes healthy plant growth and prevents root rot as well as helping to prevent erosion and nutrient leaching.
Results after 6 months of using dct Products to break up compaction
After days of heavy rain
Water Pooling into puddles on top of the grass
5 Hours later that same day the water has drained away
Other properties in the region that hadn’t been treated with our product still had pooling and puddles days later.
DCT Products contain oxygen in their chemical structure
Promote oxygen in soils
compaction affects oxygen access, improving soil structure and increasing the availability of nutrients to plants can lead to better root growth and better aeration of the soil, allowing for improved oxygen exchange between plant roots and the surrounding soil.
roots of plants require oxygen for respiration, which is necessary for energy production.
Without adequate oxygen, soils can become anaerobic, leading to a decrease in soil fertility and potentially harmful conditions for plant growth by hindering the plants’ ability to absorb nutrients and water, leading to stunted growth, yellowing of leaves, and even death in severe cases.
Before
After 6 Months
DCT Products act as a food source for Soil Biology
Biological Life
Compaction harms biological life, DCT Products not only act to free up soils but also act as a food source for soil micro-organisms stimulating the growth and activity of beneficial micro-organisms in the soil, such as bacteria and fungi.
This microbial activity aids to further break down organic matter and release nutrients into the soil making them more easily accessible for plant uptake which promotes better root growth, Microbes also produce hormones and enzymes that stimulate plant growth and increase nutrient absorption and some microbes can protect plants from pathogens and environmental stressors.
Oxygen is important for the survival and growth of soil organisms which play vital roles in nutrient cycling and overall soil health.
DCT Products have both positive and negative charges to act as a cation exchange capacity (CEC) facilitator, to attract positively charged ions like calcium, magnesium, and potassium. At the same time attracting negatively charged ions like nitrate and phosphate.
Nitrogen.
compaction affects the nitrogen process.
If the soil is low in oxygen, nitrification processes are inhibited and anaerobic bacteria will thrive, some of these anaerobic bacteria convert nitrate to nitrogen gas and nitrogen oxide these then disappear into the atmosphere and the soil loses nitrogen which could have contributed to the development of plants and crops.
Through a process called chelation, the molecules in the DCT Product form a complex with the nitrogen ions , Helping to stop them from being lost through leaching or volatilization.
Clay soils
Clay is dense because its particles are tightly packed together, with very little space between them. This results in a high mass per unit volume, making it denser than many other materials.
The DCT Product can break up clay soil by binding to clay particles and causing them to separate, making the soil more porous and aerated.
Clay soils can become more compacted by salt over-saturation, salt causes the negative charge that separates clay particles to become neutralised, allowing the particles to move closer together and the soil to become increasingly dense, in extreme cases causing the soil to resemble concrete.
The DCT product can isolate and remove the salts from the clay particle, re-imparting a negative charge to the face of the particle.
With soils where the amount of clay in the soil is very high, the positive charge on the edge of a clay particle may combine with the negative charge on the flat surface, the DCT product is attracted to the positively charged edge of the clay particle, breaking the positive/negative ionic bond between multiple clay particles the clay particles will then basically stand on end loosening the soil.
Sandy soils
Sandy soils typically have a low ability to hold onto nutrients and water due to their coarse texture and poor organic matter content.
They also have larger soil particles with large pore spaces, this allows for easier movement of the soil particles when pressure is applied to sandy soil, the larger particles can shift and settle, causing the soil to become denser and compacted.
Because sandy soils have less organic matter and microbial activity, this can also contribute to less soil structure and stability.
As the DCT Product moves its way down through the soil profile it binds to sand particles in the soil through electrostatic and hydrogen bonding interactions, which result in the formation of stable complexes.
This action creates more pore space between the particles reducing their aggregation, allowing air and water to penetrate the soil more easily resulting in less pooling of water.
As well as adding organic matter to the soil the DCT product uses its ability to bind with nutrients preventing them from being leached away and works to improve the soil structure, water retention capacity, and nutrient availability for plants as well as promoting the growth of beneficial micro-organisms.
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