Stop Flower Drop in Tomato and Pepper: Full Fruit Set and Higher Tonnage with Casablanca

What is your greatest nightmare in the field or the greenhouse? A plant you have nurtured dropping its flowers? Or fruit that never reaches the grade you want?

If you find yourself saying "my plant is all growth and no fruit", or worrying that "the weather turned cold, the plant is stressed and growth has stopped", you are in the right place. There is no need to pay a fortune for expensive hormones or mixtures of unknown effect.

Here is the formula growers recommend to each other: zinc (Zn) against flower drop and copper (Cu) against disease · the Casablanca formulation.

1. Why does a plant drop its flowers?

The answer to the question growers search for most is simple: nutrient deficiency and stress. In extreme heat, in extreme cold, or when it cannot take up the elements in the soil, the first thing a plant sacrifices is the flower. No flower means no fruit · and no income.

At exactly this point you need energy that goes straight into the plant. By the time an ordinary fertiliser has dissolved in the soil and reached the plant, the moment has passed. You need a systemic product that enters the plant's circulation.

2. Casablanca: more than zinc · a fruit-set driver

What separates Casablanca from ordinary zinc fertilisers is its highly available form.

• What does it do? It stimulates the growing points of the plant (the meristem tissue).
• The benefit to the grower: it ends the problem of blind flowers and secures the conversion of flower into fruit. In tomato, pepper, aubergine and cucumber in particular it thickens the flower stalk and prevents drop.

3. Raise the shield before disease arrives

Fruit has set, but now the spots are starting? Or the plant looks dull? The systemic copper in Casablanca is a protective shield that circulates in the plant's vessels.

• Unlike the blue powders on the market, Casablanca does not scorch the plant or stunt its growth.
• The benefit to the grower: it raises resistance to fungal and bacterial disease, brightens the colour of the fruit and lifts its market value.

4. The economics: earning through tonnage

Forget the myth that liquid fertiliser is expensive. The value of the 50 kg of crop you lose on a decare of greenhouse or field covers your whole season's requirement. Being concentrated, Casablanca is used at a low rate and saves both labour and time.

A grower-friendly programme

• Immediately after planting: Casablanca for root development.
• As flowering begins: Casablanca for fruit set.
• During fruit sizing: Casablanca for colour and quality.

Grower to grower

Do not look enviously at the yield in your neighbour's field. Your field has potential too · it simply needs the right nutrition.

Agricultural engineer support line: 0543 731 81 82 · send a photograph of your field on WhatsApp and we will write your programme.