 You don’t have to sacrifice yield when you use organics. Growers just like you are using a new organic gardening bloom booster that gives you bigger flowers than you’ll get using most synthetic boosters.
Finally there’s an organic bloom booster that delivers large yields just like synthetic boosters do! It’s great for all kinds of gardening, including organic gardening, hydroponics, soil and other gardens where you grow high-value plants.
The name of this breakthrough formula is Advanced Nutrients Nirvana. It makes your plants give you bigger flowers because its kelp co-factor extracts work specifically on the flowering pathways inside your plants (kelp is a powerful sea plant containing flower stimulator ingredients not found anywhere else in Nature).
Nirvana is packed with the power of kelp. Growers like you have been using kelp for years as a fertilizer additive because it brings the power of the ocean into your garden so you get tidal waves of buds.
Kelp is unique among garden additives and has unsurpassed, unmatched indoor gardening benefits that you just can’t get from any other organic ingredient.
But only Nirvana maximizes the full potential of kelp to turn on a tidal wave of bud development.
NIRVANA HAS SPECIAL KELP CO-FACTORS THAT BOOST YOUR HARVESTS“As a marine scientist, plant scientist and kelp researcher, I know kelp contains co-factors, growth factors and other compounds that affect flower growth. The usual way of making bigger flowers is to add hydroponics nutrients such as potassium and phosphorus. Also they would add amino acids and other substances. This works as long as the formula is properly made and combined correctly with the basic hydroponics nutrients being used. However there was a whole class of flower stimulator ingredients that come from organic sources such as kelp and nobody had really worked on them yet. The goal was to go on a quest to find the most powerful kelp on earth, to isolate the co-factor compounds, to find a way to keep the compounds intact in a hydroponics nutrients formula and to deliver them easily into plants. We sourced a lot of different types of kelp and did plenty of lab analysis and extractions along with indoor gardening experimentation. Finally it became obvious to us what was the best kelp co-factors, and how to get them into this formula that we now call Nirvana. We are lucky to have perhaps the world’s leading expert on kelp use in plant nutrition. What you see when you use Nirvana is an organic way to boost flower size beyond anything seen before. You see floral structure that’s not only bigger but also more complex and dense. You also see an improvement in taste and overall quality factors such as aroma.”
- Dr. Roger Vachon, Marine Biology Specialist
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Nirvana’s Unique Kelp Co-Factors Provide Organic Boosters that Make Bigger Flowers
Nirvana is the first and only hydroponics gardening formula ever to unlock the full power of kelp and deliver it directly, immediately to your plants so they give you bigger flowers.
Yeah, a few other products contain kelp, but not the right type, the right potency, or the right manufacturing process. You use those products and see no benefits at all.
You’re fortunate because Advanced Nutrients has corralled the world’s top kelp experts who helps us make Nirvana the top-producing kelp formula that gives you the ability to use all of kelp’s miracle benefits to make your garden produce better and bigger buds than you ever imagined possible.
That’s right, Nirvana is the 100% organic, kelp-enriched bio-activator that floods your grow room with big, beautiful buds. Hydroponics testing shows that the exclusive kelp co-factor extracts in Nirvana combine with the generous menu of other rich organic ingredients in Nirvana to make your plants bushier, thicker, covered in luscious flowers, aromatic, and seductively beautiful.
NIRVANA BETTER THAN ANY OTHER ORGANIC FLOWER BOOSTER“I’m into organic gardening with high intensity lighting and I’ve also used organic fertilizers in rockwool and other media. I wasn’t happy with the organics I used until I used Nirvana and Iguana. That’s when I got the very large harvests I got when I had used synthetic fertilizers. Nirvana is the way to make organic profitable. It’s easy to use and has a lot of effects that I like for my garden.”
- K.L., from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Now You Can Get Stronger, Bushier Plants That Yield Bigger, Better Flowers Faster
Kelp’s exclusive ability to power bigger flowers is just part of your organic gardening success story. Look at all else Nirvana does for you.
For example, one of Nirvana’s co-factors signals plants to enlarge their cells and make new cells faster so your hydroponics plants bulk up at an unusually high rate of speed.
And when your plants are young and vulnerable, Nirvana helps them resist stress and diseases that slow or kill clones, transplants and seedlings.
What’s more, Nirvana’s special ingredients make plants bushier so you don’t waste yield on vertical stem growth. Nirvana makes plants bushier than they normally would be.
Instead of putting on vertical growth like your plants usually do, Nirvana makes them put on horizontal growth.
The payoff is that your plants form denser inner branching structure that supports more flowers per plant with less wasted vertical space and stem growth.
Think about it: Nirvana’s ability to create bushy plants is a major advantage in indoor grow rooms, where height is limited but horizontal space is often easier to come by.
Gardeners using Nirvana get more branching and more flowering area per plant, which means bigger yields.
But some would argue that an even more useful benefit is how Nirvana creates more flowering sites than your plants would normally create. Instead of making only one flowering site at the top of each growing tip, Nirvana creates flowering sites in multiple places on each branch and stem.
Nirvana causes thicker flower development and more harvest weight for every costly watt of high intensity light you pay for!
More flowering sites are just one of many ways Nirvana creates way more total harvest weight and quality.
STAYED ORGANIC AND GOT YIELD IMPROVEMENT AND BETTER QUALITY CROPS“I had tried a lot of different combinations of products and although my yield improved, it wasn’t as big as I had hoped. I wanted to stay organic. Then I started doing a mixture of organic and synthetic. I think it’s true that using an organic like Nirvana will put a better more natural taste into a crop that’s being grown with some synthetic hydroponic nutrients. Before I was using Nirvana I was kind of resigned thinking that the price of staying organic was that I lost some harvest weight. But I gave Nirvana a try. I used it as a foliar spray about 3 weeks before I went to flowering and as a root feed after that. You could see the difference right away. The flowers are bigger and they have a sweeter taste!”
- John T., from Athens, Georgia
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Buds Popping Out Like Popcorn, and Stronger Plants…All from Nirvana
Indeed, Nirvana’s kelp co-factors and other organics promote a faster transition to flowering so your plants hit the ground running and pop a bunch of buds out like popcorn!
And if that’s not enough, Nirvana works the special cellular pathways in your plants that control flower patterning and growth. With Nirvana, your plants channel extra energy and nutrients into making new and more floral cells. Flowers become fatter and more succulent.
Whew, that’s a lot of benefits from Nirvana- but we’re not through yet.
You see, kelp has to survive in really rough growing conditions, so it evolved unique compounds that protect it from stress, disease and predators. Nirvana imports kelp’s miracle protectant compounds into your grow room so your plants are armed and dangerous.
Nirvana helps your plants defeat problems that would otherwise destroy your bushier, more flowery plants. Nirvana beats heat, stress, bugs, molds, viruses, and fungi because your plants are stronger and healthier.
What makes Nirvana even more special? Nirvana is the only hydroponics formula that contains this exclusive, powerful array of extracts.
Sure, yeah, ok, you hear about competing products that allegedly contain kelp or “seaweed” extracts, but you know what the problem is? These products only contain one kelp compound, but Nirvana contains many more blooming co-factors- including ones that have never before been extracted for use in a plant growth formula!
Concentrate, Liquid, Rich, Organic Easy to Use, Highly Productive = Nirvana
Nirvana’s broad range of kelp extracts make it well worth your investment, but you get a whole lot more than just the Kelp Guru’s bloom-boosting co-factor compounds when you use Nirvana.
Here’s the rest of the story. For one thing, Nirvana’s rare extracts from yucca and saponaria trees channel nutrients and other growth factors into your plants like an express delivery directly into leaves, flowers, stems and roots.
And you have to remember: Nirvana is the only concentrated liquid organic bloom stimulant you can apply to leaves or roots. Its rare seaweed and land plant extracts are augmented with vitamins, amino acids, carbohydrates, minerals, guano, and other exclusive crop-boosting organic materials.
Nirvana has an amazing menu of organics: organically-derived calcium, potassium, magnesium, proteins, chlorophyll, carotene, vitamins, root stimulants, sugars and growth enhancers. Sounds like a feast for your buds, yes?
Although Nirvana isn’t a stand-alone basic fertilizer, its crop-boosting ingredients magnify the value and potency of your existing feed program.
When you use Nirvana, your plants become more efficient at using nutrients, water, light and C02, so you get lower production costs and bigger harvest profits.
It gets even better. Nirvana’s special organics come in an easy to use formula that flows smoothly through all kinds of hydroponics systems.
By the way, you can use Nirvana as a foliar spray that goes on fast and is absorbed immediately. Nirvana is also a perfect root zone additive. Wherever you use it, you get concentrated organics without mess or ugly odors.
If you’re running hydroponics, Aeroponics, NFT, or other hydroponics systems, Nirvana brings a delicious organic taste to your crops.
NIRVANA SMELLS GREAT AND SO DO MY BIGGER FLOWERS“Nirvana is the third organic bloomer I tried and now it’s the only one I use. I tried Liquid Karma and some other ones made by your competition, what a waste of money. They clogged my drippers and made my house smell bad. Nirvana is easier to use and it actually smells sweet. I used it with Sensi A & B right from start until harvest. It made a good difference in size and taste.”
- Kurt, from Santa Cruz, California
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As if that’s not enough, extensive testing proves that Nirvana outperforms formulas made by competitors. It’s an easy to use seedling to harvest organic supplement that provides the perfect yield-boosting addition to your hydroponics nutrient toolkit.
Use Nirvana organic gardening booster so your plants mature faster, resist stress, heat and diseases, and give you juicy, ripe, heavy, bigger flowers dripping with quality and aroma.
Nirvana is a kelp-rich, 100% organic additive that has overall crop benefits for you including larger yields and better quality flowers, as proven by research.
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NIRVANA RESEARCH DOSSIER
© 2008, Copyright, Advanced Nutrients
International Hydroponics Research Team
Your Nirvana benefits include:
Triacontanol
“Application of various long-chain aliphatic alcohol preparations and especially triacontanol (TRIA) results in remarkable stimulation of the growth and/or yield of a number of plant species. … This study clearly indicates that the molecular dynamics and/or fluidity of both protoplast and chloroplast membranes is markedly enhanced as a result of exogenous [external] application of TRIA.”
“Photosynthesis response to triacontanol correlates with increased dynamics of mesophyll protoplast and chloroplast membranes.” in Plant Growth Regulation. 1997. 21: 145-152
Triacontanol
“TRIA-treatment of isolated pea mesophyll protoplasts caused a substantial increase (166%) in the net CO2 fixation rate after 60 min of TRIA application as compared to the control. …the effects were less pronounced [in leaf pieces] than in isolated protoplasts, the increase of photosynthetic CO2 fixation being 117% after 60 min of TRIA application.”
“Photosynthesis response to triacontanol correlates with increased dynamics of mesophyll protoplast and chloroplast membranes.” in Plant Growth Regulation. 1997. 21: 145-152
Triacontanol
“Tomato (C3-plants) and maize (C4-plants) were grown in a nutrient solution to which triacontanol was added twice a week. After about 4 weeks the triacontanol treatment caused a significant increase in the dry weight of the tomato plants. Leaf area and dry weight measurements of tomato leaves at different stages of development showed that the largest increase in growth was obtained when triacontanol treatment was initiated before bud formation.”
“Comparative analyses of the effect of triacontanol on photosynthesis, photorespiration and growth of tomato (C3-plant) and maize (C4-plant).” in Planta. 1981. 152(1):44-49
Seaweed extract (auxin)
Auxin stimulates the differentiation of vascular tissue, thus increasing the supply of nutrients and hormones to developing organs and hastening their development (Bruinsma 1974).
“Floral induction in woody angiosperms.” in New Forests. 1997. 14: 179–202
Bigger Yield:
- provides important building block nutrients
- bigger flowers, bigger/more cells, more growth
Triacontanol
“Application of various long-chain aliphatic alcohol preparations and especially triacontanol (TRIA) results in remarkable stimulation of the growth and/or yield of a number of plant species.”
“Photosynthesis response to triacontanol correlates with increased dynamics of mesophyll protoplast and chloroplast membranes.” in Plant Growth Regulation. 1997. 21: 145-152
Seaweed extract (auxin)
“At the cellular level, auxin acts as a signal for cell division, expansion, and differentiation (Leyser, 2001), and some lines of evidence at the whole-plant level indicate that auxin plays a role in organ cell proliferation as well as the determination of organ size (Lincoln et al., 1990; Ecker, 1995). For example, mutation of Arabidopsis REVOLUTA/INTERFASCICULAR FIBERLESS1 (REV/IFL1) prolongs growth and cell proliferation, resulting in larger leaves and flowers and thicker inflorescence stems.”
“The Arabidopsis Auxin-Inducible Gene ARGOS Controls Lateral Organ Size” in The Plant Cell. 2003. 15: 1951-1961
Triacontanol
“Tomato (C3-plants) and maize (C4-plants) were grown in a nutrient solution to which triacontanol was added twice a week. After about 4 weeks the triacontanol treatment caused a significant increase in the dry weight of the tomato plants. Leaf area and dry weight measurements of tomato leaves at different stages of development showed that the largest increase in growth was obtained when triacontanol treatment was initiated before bud formation.”
“Comparative analyses of the effect of triacontanol on photosynthesis, photorespiration and growth of tomato (C3-plant) and maize (C4-plant).” in Planta. 1981. 152(1):44-49
Seaweed extract (auxin)
“The auxin-resistant1 (axr1) mutant has obviously smaller leaves, inflorescence stems, and floral organs, and anatomic examination shows that the reduced size of its leaf and stem is caused by a decrease in cell number rather than cell size.”
“The Arabidopsis Auxin-Inducible Gene ARGOS Controls Lateral Organ Size” in The Plant Cell. 2003. 15: 1951-1961
Seaweed extract
“SWC [seaweed concentrate] applied as a soil drench increased all plant growth parameters (Figs 1-3). Plants treated with 0.4% SWC and 1.0% SWC were significantly larger than control plants. A flower count at the termination of the experiment indicated that SWC-treated plants had significantly more flowers than non-treated plants when applied as a soil drench. SWC stimulated early fruit ripening and production. Nearly 60 % of all the first fruit picked, and over 50% of all the second, were from plants treated with 0.2% and 0.4% SWC respectively (Fig. 4). The majority of fruit on control plants were found to ripen after three or four fruits had already been harvested from SWC-treated plants. Most improved fruit growth was noted when SWC was applied to plants as a foliar spray. There was no significant difference between the average size of the first fruit for SWC-treated plants and control plants (Fig. 5). However, when applied as either a root drench or foliar spray SWC increased the total fresh weight of these fruit. An increase in fresh weight of 28 % (Fig. 5), and diameter of 10% (results not shown), was recorded in plants receiving 0.4% SWC as a foliar spray. Seaweed application improved total fruit production, but never significantly. Plants sprayed with 0.4% SWC showed a 10% increase in total fruit number (results not shown) and a 17% increase in total fruit fresh weight (Fig. 6). The 0.2 % SWC spray treatment improved the average fruit weight of all harvested fruit by 11.8% (Fig. 7). A flower count at the termination of the experiment indicated that plants receiving 0.4% SWC as a foliar spray had 70% more flowers remaining than non-treated plants (Fig. 8).”
“Effect of seaweed concentrate on the establishment and yield of greenhouse tomato plants.” Journal of Applied Phycology. 1992. 4: 291-296
Triacontanol
“Foliar applications of Tria. at lower concentrations (0.01 and 0.1 mg/1) stimulated overall growth and significantly enhanced morphine content and capsule weight but was inhibitory at the highest concentration (4 mg/1). Plant height and shoot fresh and dry weight were significantly increased at all concentrations of Tria. application (Figure 1), the association among these characters being significantly positive. However, at concentrations higher than 0.1 mg/l these characters exhibited a decreasing trend.
“Effect of Triacontanol on photosynthesis, alkaloid content and growth in opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum L.)” in Plant Growth Regulation. 1990. 9:65-71
Triacontanol
Tria. application at 0.01 mg/l increased capsule number (Figure 1), weight and morphine content (Figure 4) significantly, whereas thebaine and codeine contents remained unaffected at different concentrations. The positive correlation between capsule number and weight (r = .794) suggested that increasing number of capsules is not a limiting factor for capsule growth.”
“Effect of Triacontanol on photosynthesis, alkaloid content and growth in opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum L.)” in Plant Growth Regulation. 1990. 9:65-71
Increased Nutrient Absorption
- Surfactants and humates make other fertilizers more effective
- effective in root zone or foliarly
- superior nutrient forms (more available nutrition)
Humic Acid
“Humic acid was in general beneficial to shoot and root growth of corn plants. Dry matter yield in corn shoots was stimulated by HA, especially by treatments with 640 ppm HA. Nutrient uptake showed a number of differences as a result of treatments with HA. Moderate applications with HA resulted in a significant increase in N content of corn shoots, while large amounts of HA had a tendency to reduce the N concentration in corn shoots. As a result of the HA treatments, P concentrations in corn shoots were decreased, but differences in K contents were statistically not significant and Mn contents in shoots were also nonsignificantly different among the treatments. However, Zn content showed a tendency to increase with increasing applications of HA.”
“Effect of different levels of humic acids on nutrient content and growth of corn (Zea mays).” In Plant and Soil. 1979. 51: 283-287
Humic acid increases absorption of N and Zu when at the correct level. Too much or too little is not a good thing.
Triacontanol
“Elemental contents of Fe, Mn, Cu were significantly maximum at 0.1 mg/l and Zn at 0.01 mg/l (Figure 3) . Above these Tria. concentrations Fe and Mn concents decreased while that of Cu and Zn remained unaffected.”
“Effect of Triacontanol on photosynthesis, alkaloid content and growth in opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum L.)” in Plant Growth Regulation. 1990. 9:65-71
Surfactants
“Addition of the surfactant caused a large increase in iron uptake in both the sorghum and the red kidney bean leaves during the day. An increase also occturred due to surfactant for the sorghum during the night.”
“Absorption and translocation of foliar-applied iron.” In Plant Physiology. 1967. 42: 15-19
Surfactants
Surfactants are chemicals that lower surface tension, which is the force that prevents surfaces from wetting. Surfactants act at two levels: 1) They increase the area of contact and retention time in the “nooks and crannies” of the foliage, and 2) they modify the external wax barrier, making it more permeable. There are two types of surfactants: ionic and non-ionic. In grapes, treatment with surfactants has been shown to make nutrients more available. Non-ionic surfactants worked better than ionic ones because they 1) are inert in the presence of salts, 2) they are compatible with most organic ions, and 3) they do not form insoluble salts in the presence of hard water.
Christensen, P. “Foliar fertilization in vine mineral nutrient management programs.” American Society of Enology and Viticulture. 2005. pp:83-89
Surfactants
Surfactants are commonly used in pesticide formulations to improve physicochemical characteristics of a spray solution and consequently to increase the efficiency of foliage applied agrochemicals (Holloway and Stock, 1990). ... Thus, surfactants decrease the surface tension between the liquid and leaf which leads to an increase in leaf wetting. Surfactants also eliminate/reduce the air layer between the liquid and leaf surfaces, increase penetration of solutes through the stomata, cuticular membranes and the cell walls, and limit the drying of droplets (Dybing and Currier, 1961; Grieve and Pitman, 1978).
Chitin (from Guano and Krill)
The ryegrass shoot weight in amended soil was greater (P<0.01), most probably due to N mineralised from chitin. A significantly lower (P<0.01) root: shoot ratio of ryegrass in the amended soil also suggested improved N availability, and therefore less root mass was needed to support a given shoot mass. A reduction in nodulation was observed in 12-day-old white clover seedlings (P<0.05) and also in 6-week-old seedlings (P<0.01).
“Effects of chitin amendment of soil on microorganisms, nematodes, and growth of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)” in Biology and Fertility of Soils. 1996. 22(3): 221-226
Put chitin into soil – chitin is a very good source of N. Less nitrogen fixation required (suggested by lower levels of root nodulation). Much more efficient N source.
Organic
“A review of the literature showed that plants grown with organic fertilizers often contain higher concentrations of vitamins B1 (thiamin) and B12 (cyanocobalamin) as compared with plants grown with inorganic fertilizers. Since plant roots were recently shown to be able to absorb B1 and B12, it was thus suspected that organic fertilizers (such as manure of diverse sources or sewage sludges which often contain relatively high concentrations of several vitamins) introduce additional vitamins into the soil which in turn leads to increased vitamins in the plants.”
“Enrichment of some B-vitamins in plants with application of organic fertilizers.” in Plant and Soil. 1994. 167: 305-311
- Increased B1 and B12 in plant did not significantly upregulate metabolism. Plants were more nutritious though (they were looking for value as a supplement to vegetarians).
Promotes transition to flowering
Seaweed extract (auxin)
“Auxin applied after translocation of the flowering hormone from the leaf has been consummated promotes flowering by increasing rate of flower bud development. This effect is independent of the leaf, and appears to be exerted directly on the bud. The fact that auxin promotes floral development, as described in this paper, may aid in the interpretation of some experiments of other investigators which show a promotive effect of auxin upon flowering.”
“The dual role of auxin in flowering” in Plant Physiology. 1955. 30(4): 327-334
Superior nutrients, proper ratios
Improved mineral nutrition is often considered a flower-inducing treatment. Zimmerman (1971), in one of the first such reports,was able to reduce the time to first flowering in tea crabapple (Malus hupehensis Rehd.) seedlings from three years to 9½ months by growing them continuously under “favorable conditions” (extended photoperiods) in a greenhouse. This also included weekly treatment with 20-20-20 (N-P-K) water soluble fertilizer.
“Floral induction in woody angiosperms.” in New Forests. 1997. 14: 179–202
Seaweed extract (cytokinin)
Ramirez and Hoad (1979) showed that zeatin (a naturally occurring cytokinin) promotes flower initiation in apple. Srinivasan and Mullins (1978, 1979) reported that treating grape (Vitis vinifera L.) apices with PBA (a synthetic cytokinin) caused inflorescence and fruit development in four-week-old seedlings; without treatment, flowering did not occur until three to five years of age. There is also some evidence that cytokinin treatment can affect the gender of the flowers produced (Galoch 1980).
“Floral induction in woody angiosperms.” in New Forests. 1997. 14: 179–202
Immunizes against insects, fungi, and viruses
Surfactants (Chilean Soapbark)
“We demonstrate that microgram amounts of [Chilean Soapbark] extract, while exhibiting no cell cytotoxicity or direct virucidal activity, prevent each of the six viruses tested from infecting their host cells. In addition, the presence of residual amounts of extract continue to block viral infection and render cells resistant to infection for at least 16 hours after the removal of the extract from the cell culture media.”
“Antiviral activity obtained from aqueous extracts of the Chilean soapbark tree (Quillaja saponaria Molina” in Journal of General Virology. 2007. 88: 275-285
Seaweed Extract
Following seaweed application, plants display increased resistance to fungal, bacterial and insect attack [4, 23, 24, 34, 99, 103]. Antibacterial activity [83, 84, 85, 90, 110] antiviral activity [35, 36, 90, 91] and antifungal activity [66] is well documented for seaweeds and the presence of these components in commercial SWCs may be responsible for reduced harmful effects of some
pathogens.
“Evidence for the presence of plant growth regulators in commercial seaweed products.” in Plant Growth Regulation. 1993. 13: 21-29
Chitin (from Guano and Krill)
Chitin oligosaccharides are also effective elicitors; recent microarray studies of chitin-induced gene expression have revealed changes in gene expression within ten minutes of application of the fragments [37]. ... This response presumably reflects the existence of a signal transduction system that responds to fragments of pathogen cell walls released by chitinases secreted into cell walls by plant cells.
“The role of plant cell wall polysaccharide composition in disease resistance.” In Trends in Plant Science. 2004. 9(4): 203-209
- contact with chitin fragments induces (elicits) immediate anti-pathogen responses within the plant.
Chitin (from Guano and Krill)
Chitin increased (P<0.01) the populations of bacteria and fungi by 13-fold and 2.5-fold, respectively. The cyst nematode of white clover, Heterodera trifolii, was significantly reduced in chitin-amended soil, possibly due to increased levels of chitinase produced by rhizosphere microorganisms. Two other plant-parasitic nematodes, Pratylenchus spp. and Tylenchus spp., were also reduced in ryegrass roots and in soil as a result of the chitin amendment.
“Effects of chitin amendment of soil on microorganisms, nematodes, and growth of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)” in Biology and Fertility of Soils. 1996. 22(3): 221-226
- chitin in soil increased levels of beneficial bacteria by providing a huge nitrogen source. Beneficial bacteria, in turn, were stimulated by the chitin to produce chitinases that destroyed parasitic nematodes.
Chitin (from Guano and Krill)
Soil treatment with chitin or chitinous material has been suggested as a means of controlling soil-borne fungal and nematode pathogens (Gooday 1990). Successful control of the nematode Meloidogyne arenaria using chitin was reported in a series of papers (Mian et al. 1982; Godoy et al. 1983; Culbreath et al. 1986). ... These observations suggest that the decomposition of chitin for 3 weeks or longer prior to planting will result a build-up of chitinolytic microorganisms which may parasitise the chitin- containing eggs of plant-parasitic nematodes.
“Effects of chitin amendment of soil on microorganisms, nematodes, and growth of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)” in Biology and Fertility of Soils. 1996. 22(3): 221-226
- Soil containing beneficial, chitinolytic bacteria and fungi can be sterilized of nematodes in three weeks simply by adding chitin
Stress protection (B6 – UV, drought, salinity, frost)
Seaweed Extract (Betaines)
“Certain crop plants such as rice, soybeans, and potatoes lack significant amounts of betaines or any other osmoprotectant. This deficiency is the rationale for recent interest in using metabolic engineering technology to install the synthesis of osmoprotectants in such crops in order to improve their tolerance to drought, salinity, and other stresses.”
“Betaines and related osmoprotectants. Targets for metabolic engineering of stress resistance.” In Plant Physiology. 1999. 120: 945-949
Seaweed Extract
“A wide range of beneficial effects have been reported from the use of liquid seaweed extracts, including increased crop yields, resistance of plants to frost, increased uptake of inorganic constituents from the soil, more resistance to stress conditions, and reductions in storage losses of fruit.”
“Cytokinin Activity of Seaweed Extracts.” In Marine Natural Products Chemistry. 1977. pp:337-344
Seaweed Extract (Betaines)
“The protective properties of betaines were first recognized in experiments in which they were supplied to bacteria whose growth was inhibited by high salt concentrations. In media containing 0.6M NaCl, the bacteria grow very slowly unless supplied with one of these compounds.”
“Betaines and Related Osmoprotectants. Targets for Metabolic Engineering of Stress Resistance.” In Plant Physiology. 1999. 120: 945-949
Seaweed Extract (Betaines)
“One way many plants and other organisms cope with osmotic stress is to synthesize and accumulate compounds termed osmoprotectants. ... Their protective effects also extend to temperature extremes and other stresses.”
“Metabolic engineering of osmoprotectant accumulation in plants.” In Metabolic Engineering. 2002. 4(1): 49-56
- betaines are osmoprotectants
Seaweed Extract
Certain specialized areas of seaweed application, such as their use in reducing seedling transplant shock and the promotion of rooting on cuttings, may prove economically feasible. Atzmon and Van Staden (unpublished data) recently found that root application of SWC [seaweed concentrate] to Pinus pinea seedlings improved seedling quality and increased the ability of seedlings to survive transplanting.
“Evidence for the presence of plant growth regulators in commercial seaweed products.” in Plant Growth Regulation. 1993. 13: 21-29
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