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Old 08-15-2009, 04:19 PM
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The product is not available in small quantities except through me. It is an agricultural product at $11,500 a bottle, but that treats 100s of acres of sod farms.

I made a deal with the manufacturer to re-bottle it in small quantities and he uses my web site test results for his sales personnel.

Essentials test results

For a full label list of ingredients in Essentials
http://www.growthproducts.com/pdfs/T...ntial_Plus.pdf
and their sales literature
http://www.growthproducts.com/pdfs_L...l_brochure.pdf

I like a company that lists everything in their product.

Companion is another item I use from them. It is a natural organic anti-fungal inoculate.
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Old 08-17-2009, 04:28 PM
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Bear in mind that these are ROOTING hormones. They are very useful when repotting, or to help an ailing plant, or when the plants are in their main growing season. They should NOT be used when bloom is desired and should be stopped a couple of months before that time. These instructions are right on the KLN bottle.
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Old 08-17-2009, 04:44 PM
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ABSOLUTELY Orchid126! I have used them just before phal flower season and trust me when I tell you how distorted the spikes and flowers were on some of the plants!!!!
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Old 08-17-2009, 05:18 PM
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That is one of the reasons I went to the organic products.

I spray the flowers and plants right at the shows. The vermi-liquid retains water in the flowers and will refresh a flower wilting in the heat. People are shocked when they return to a show booth and the flowers look better than they did 20 minutes earlier.

I treat plants monthly year round. Since there is no chemical fertilizer in the products as there is in KLN I do not have the problems you mentioned.
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Thanks for the further comments. They're truly appreciated!!!!

I only used the KLN for the one plant that I've had a while that's barely got any roots. I bought another plant recently on sale at Lowe's that also barely has roots (one root about 1/2 in.) and used the KLN again.

I'm now starting to use Superthrive as an add-on (along with standard fertilizer) once a month.

I'm too much of a novice to understand all the info here, but hope as time goes on, I get more educated. Right now, I don't seem to be doing too badly. Of my original 6 (1 died), 5 seem to be doing pretty well ('cept for the one I treated with KLN). I recently added 2 more. I think (for me) that's enough for a while (total of 7).

But, one more question. What are the pros and cons of using Ron Perez's homemade orchid fertilizer. I have the recipe, but hesitate to use it until I know more about it. My DH is a beer drinker, so that's always on hand...LOL!
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Please excuse me for a moment, but there is a bit too much "graying" of the facts going on.

The hormones in K-L-N and SuperThrive are not diluted 1,000,000-to-1. K-L-N contains about 0.2% IBA + NAA, SuperThrive has 0.04% NAA. As auxins, they do a lot of things (2,4 D is an auxin), but these two primarily affect root initiation and cell growth.

Gibberellins, on the other hand, when used on growing plants, primarily forces elongation of cells. In some situations, that's good (new roots for transplantation, for example). It has tremendous effect on cannabis, so that might explain why it has gotten a bit harder to find. On some plants, all it does is make the plant "leggy".

It is really good for seed germination, and I have heard that is is pretty good as a root dip for preventing transplant shock in vegetables, so maybe orchids, too?

This is from a university publication:

Gibberellins are a group of naturally occurring plant hormones that affect cell enlargement and division which leads to internode elongation in stems. They have a dwarf reversing response allowing certain dwarf cultivars to grow to normal height when treated with gibberellin. They affect many developmental processes, particularly those controlled by temperature and light such as seed and plant dormancy, germination, seed stalk and fruit development.


Gibberellins are used commercially to increase fruit size of "Thompson Seedless" grapes. They are applied at fruit set or shortly thereafter. They also promote male flower initiation in cucumbers when pollen is wanted for hybrid seed production and may overcome the cold requirement for flowering of some perennial plants.
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