What Is Dieback & How Can Swift Grow Help?
What is Dieback?
Dieback refers to a condition that affects plants, particularly trees, where the foliage and branches of the plant start to wither, die, or decline in health. It is usually caused by a combination of factors and can lead to the death of trees, shrubs, vines and even crops.
What Are The Symptoms Of Dieback Disease?
Dieback causes the progressive death of branches or foliage, usually starting at the tips or ends, and can then progressively cause the plant to deteriorate and, in some cases, lead to plant death. Other symptoms of Dieback disease can be stunted growth. Dieback can have significant implications for both farmers and backyard gardeners, as well as natural habitats.
What Causes Dieback?
Dieback is often associated with two major factors: soil degradation and the presence of plant disease or pathogens.
Soil degradation can occur due to factors such as erosion, nutrient depletion, compaction, salinity, or changes in water table levels. These conditions can negatively impact the root systems of plants, making them more susceptible to diseases and reducing their ability to uptake water and nutrients.
Plant pathogens including fungi, bacteria, or viruses, along with insect attack can also contribute to dieback. These pathogens can attack plant tissues, causing decay, wilting, or cankers, ultimately leading to plant death or decline. They can spread through contaminated soil, infected plant material, or even via wind, water, insects or other animals.
What Issues Does Dieback Disease Cause?
For farmers: Dieback can have significant economic consequences. It can affect crop yields, reduce the quality of produce, cause death of new and established plants, and lead to financial losses. Typical solutions have included heavy investment into soil remediation measures, crop rotation, or the use of disease-resistant plant varieties to mitigate the problem.
Gardeners: May also experience dieback, particularly with poor soil conditions or by inadvertently introducing infected plants or contaminated soil. Dieback can affect the overall aesthetics of the garden, reduce plant diversity, and cause the death of mature and established trees, which are impossible to replace quickly.
Can Swift Grow Help With Dieback?
The good news is yes! Swift Grow’s family of products can reverse the impact of dieback disease on impacted plants, and restore health, while being 100% organic.
Dieback is a complex issue influenced by multiple factors, including soil condition, plant pathogens, and environmental stressors, and our trio of products all work together to address these issues naturally.
The soil friendly microorganisms in Swift Grow, the pest protection from Swift Fort and toxin bio remediation from Swift Life rapidly provide bio absorbable nutrients and protection needed to resuscitate your plants.
The Benefits Of Using Swift Products
Safe. Fast. Affordable.
Safe: As a natural super food for your plants, Swift products are safe for people, pets, wildlife, bees, creeks, rivers, oceans and the atmosphere.
Our range is produced locally at our sustainable Australian land-based barramundi fish farm. It is an organic solution rich in macronutrients (both primary and secondary), as well as micronutrients.
Fast: Swift products act quickly with visible results within 10 days of application.
Affordable: Swift treatment is a fraction of the cost of replacing affected plants. Not only that, but the treated plants come back with more life and yield after their recovery, to more recover the cost of treating with Swift Grow.
Directions for 9L covering 10 sqm lawn or 2 trees/vines
- Shake all bottles before mixing.
- From the Swift Grow bottle add 100ml to the watering can.
- From the Swift Life bottle add 10ml to the same watering can.
- From the Swift Fort bottle add 20ml to the same water can.
- Top up the 9 litre watering can with water and spray directly and evenly over the affected foliage covering 10 sqm.
- Repeat the application weekly for 4 consecutive weeks or till you start to observe emerging plant life, then reduce frequency to match the growth you desire.
- Scale the same ratio for large water volume and area accordingly.
