Super Boost plus: is a very comprehensive blend of seaweed extract, Liquid Carbon & fulvic acid, cheated micronutrients and enzymes to stimulate plant growth.
Why Liquid Carbon (Humates) & (fulvic acid)?
Humates is a long carbon chain derived mainly from coal or Liquid Carbon. Its soluble forms are humic acid and Fulvic acid. Humates provides a number of proven benefits:
- Increases nutrient and water holding capacity of soil due to their chemical architectures.
- Increases reserves of slow release nutrients due to their positive and negatively active sites.
- Enhances solubility of phosphorus, zinc, iron, manganese and copper.
- Buffers soil pH changes.
- Acts as soil glue, decreasing soil erosion.
- Enlarges root system (deeper and more mass).
- Increases plant growth.
These benefits provide an enormous boost to the plant’s survivability at seeding or transplanting, particularly in stressful conditions such as high heat or drought. Throughout the growth stage of the plant, Humates provide a blanket of soil properties to give the plant moisture and available nutrients.
Why Seaweed Extracts?
Seaweed extracts contain a number of natural plant growth hormones (i.e. cytokinins, auxins) as well as other plant biostimulants (e.g. betaines, polyamines, oligosaccharides), which can improve plant resistances and tolerances to environmental, disease and insect stresses.
For example, Polyamines influence the mechanism that controls pollination and the formation of fruits. Their presence in optimal quantities is the determining factor in the number of fruits and their development. Applying Super Boost plus during flowering stages will enhance the plant yield.
Seaweed extracts are also rich in vitamins and micronutrients and like Humates hold ground moisture. We use a variety of seaweed blend made from the purest, most studied form of seaweed from the North Atlantic Ocean- Ascophylum Nodosum.
Why Cheated Micro Nutrients?
For fast uptake of essential micro nutrients:
1) Boron (B)
- Helps in the use of nutrients
- Aids production of sugars
- Essential for seed and fruit development
- Not mobile in the plant
- Deficiency is common. Symptoms include deformation of growing tip
2) Copper (Cu)
- Enzyme activation
- Important for reproductive growth
- Poor mobility in the plant
3) Chlorine (Cl)
- Aids plant metabolism
- Promotes photosynthesis
- Good mobility
4) Iron (Fe)
- Essential for chlorophyll synthesis
- Enzyme activation o Metabolism
- Poor mobility in the plant
5) Manganese (Mn)
- Enzyme activation
- Regulates chlorophyll synthesis
- Poor mobility in the plant
6) Molybdenum (Mo)
- Nitrogen fixation
- Nitrogen use
- Poor mobility in the plant
7) Zinc (Zn)
- Protein breakdown
- Enzyme activation
- Poor mobility in the plant
Depending on the soil, some micronutrients are plentiful others are nonexistent. For example, Boron readily leaches out of the root zone due to irrigation or precipitation; as a result it is usually below necessary levels for optimum plant growth. In addition, humus rich soils and clay soils, depending on pH, will bind these nutrients making them unavailable for root uptake. Along the same line, high concentrations of micro nutrients in soil tests do not necessarily mean that the plant can uptake the nutrients. Notice that most micro nutrients are not mobile in the plant. This means that once a deficiency occurs, it is difficult to get the micronutrients to the deficient cells. That is why it is so important to ensure that micro nutrients are plentiful in the soil and in a form that the plant can readily absorb. Super Boost plus is the proven choice for micro nutrient feed.
You enrich your soil with Humates, seaweed extracts and chelated micronutrients to improve plant growth, vigor and yield.
Seaweed: Why is it so beneficial for plants?
Seaweed extracts have been proven to accelerate the health and growth of plants. The actions of it are many. We will attempt to explain some of them here for you.
Seaweed stimulates beneficial soil microbial activity, particularly in the pockets of soil around the feeder roots resulting in a substantially larger root mass. where the beneficial fungi and bacteria known as “mycorrhizae” make their home. This area of the soil is known as the “rhizosphere.” The rhizosphere activity improves the plants ability to form healthier, stronger roots. Having many actions it also enhances the plants own natural ability to ward off disease and pests. A good example has been observed that aphids and other types of sap feeding insects generally avoid plants treated with seaweed. At the same time it works within the soil to make more nutrients available to the plant. The rhizosphere forms a nutrient food bank for the plant it can draw on in times of stress.
Another action seaweed has on the roots in the rhizosphere is due again to the increased mass and depth of the roots the plant is able to draw more moisture from the soil increasing the drought tolerance level. The root mass also allows the plant to more effectively absorb and use fertilizers that are applied to the plant and soil. The overall stronger root structure may help plants physically resist certain types of root diseases.
Seaweed enhances photosynthesis via increasing a plants chlorophyll levels. Chlorophyll is what gives plants their green color. By upping the level of chlorophyll the plant is able to efficiently harness the suns energy. Along with this seaweed contains a complex range of biological stimulants, nutrients, and carbohydrates. To date more than 60 different types of nutrients in seaweed have been confirmed. However seaweed in itself is not a plant food, rather it is classified as a “bio-stimulant.”
Seaweed extracts contain natural plant growth regulators (PGR) which control the growth and structural development of plants. The major plant growth regulator are auxins, cytokinins, indoles and hormones. These PGRs seaweed are in very small quantities generally measured in parts per million. It only takes a very small amount of these to do the job.
- Indole compounds help the development of plant roots and buds.
- Cytokinins are hormones that promote growth via rapidly speeding up the process of cell division making seaweed extract of value in treating tissue cultures. When they are applied to foliage the leaves rejuvenate stimulating photosynthesis. Thus they stay green longer. The cytokinins in seaweed extract are a major factor when applied to apple and peach trees in promoting the growth of fruiting spurs and reduce premature dropping of fruit.
- Auxins, also hormones, occur in the roots and stems during cell division. They move to areas of cell elongation where they allow the walls of cells to stretch. Auxins actually give fruits and vegetables a naturally longer shelf life. This is known as delaying senescence: the deterioration of cells and tissues that results in rotting.
Improved cold tolerance: We have had results with seaweed treated all bean plants that were able to take temperatures as low as 25 degrees and survive quite well to withstand many hard freezes and stay green. Plants that have broken dormancy too early due to unseasonable fluctuating temperatures are able to make it with the help of just one foliar application as have seedlings that were put out and left uncovered.
How can this be?
The effect of the growth regulators in seaweed fill plant tissues with hormones and minerals displacing a lot of water in the tissues. In turn this helps plants to tolerate the pressure from frost that would normally cause significant tissue damage. Polyamino compounds in seaweed also play a role in cold resistance as do abscissic acid. Seaweed as a plant supplement treatment has consistently proved to be the best treatment for preventing the threat of frost damage. For us seeing it believed it!
Seaweed extract and insects: Once again the plant growth regulators in seaweed come into play concerning insect control. We have observed reductions in populations of aphids and flea beetles on seaweed treated plants to the point that these bugs were hardly noticed. Infestations of spider mites have been reduced by 40 to 50 percent. It is thought that the spray may have an effect in disrupting the mite’s reproductive capabilities. The presence of hormones in seaweed may act to keep insects from advancing sexually rendering them incapable of reproducing. Some female insects are prevented from producing sexual scents that are needed to attract a mate.
These are some of the reasons that has seaweed extract as one of its’ main ingredients. The amounts it contains are perfectly measured in the formula so there is no guess work for you in combining seaweed extract with another fertilizer product! All the ingredients in work together to give your plants the absolute best!
Vitamin B12 – There is still some doubt about this — B12 may be contained in the seaweed, although in some cases it is in associated bacteria. Vitamins known to be present in the brown seaweeds include vitamin C (ascorbic acid), which appears in as high a proportion as in Lucerne. Vitamin A is not present, but its precursor, beta-carotene, is, as well as fucoxanthin, which may also be the precursor of Vitamin A. B group vitamins present are B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B12, as well as pantothenic acid, folic acid and folinic acid. Also found in brown seaweeds are vitamin E (tocopherol), vitamin K, and other growth-promoting substances. The unusual nature of the vitamin E in seaweed should be stressed. It has valuable characteristics (put technically, a complete set of isomers) found only in such seed oils as wheat germ oil.
Seaweed Extract is a water soluble powder. This product is rich in macro nutrients and over 70 micro nutrients. Seaweed Extract also contains growth stimulating substances like plant hormones, enzymes and vitamins.
Use before & during flowering time on all crops: Use seaweed and its extract as natural fertilizers to avoid chemicals that may help your plant but hurt your body. Seaweed provides B vitamins, like B1 and B12, as well as E, K, and folic acid, which are taken up by plants grown in such enhanced soils. Trace elements, especially iron and calcium, exist in seaweed extract in their chelated forms, which plants can absorb more readily than from plain dirt.
Adding seaweed extract increases the amount of chlorophyll in the leaves of plants. Seaweed also contains plant hormones that encourage the growth of foliage. The various compounds absorbed replace some of the water in plant cells making them more resistant to drought and frost damage as well as increasing the shelf life of produce after it has been picked.
Plants treated with seaweed extract are more resistant to pests like spider mites and aphids. The extract and meal provide some resistance to diseases like scab, mildew, and fungus as well. Enriching the soil with the seaweed strengthens the native bacteria and fungi that provide some of this protection.
Sea Weed Extract – can be mixed into chemicals, making them more concentrated and feeding the plants at the same time. It can be applied with you sprays before planting as a starter, directly onto the ground or as a starter with your fertilizer or as a foliar spray with increase the plant productive before or during flowering.
Super Boost plus: has been tested and used for the past 8 years by farmers and has proven far beyond what they hope for. It has been tested from Winnipeg to Kansas City in the past 4 years on selected farms. Farms sizes range from 300 to 15000 acres. Result shown below!
This product was developed by a group that was working on increasing the yields. They found out by apply Super Boost plus could increase on soybeans by 15% to 40%. But was most amazed on what it did to all the other crops they tested it on. Yields with Super Boost plus could increase their yields even more than before.
Grain crops yields went from 60 bushels per acre to 81.4 with a protein increase of .8 percent. Lowest increase was 8 bushel.
Soybean crop yields went from 38 b/p/a/ to 46.3
Corn increased crop yields on the average 18.3% to 23%
Sunflowers increased an average of 705 lbs per acre
Canola increased an average of 447 lbs per acre
Sugar Beets increased an average of 16% overall
The product is well worth putting it on by University testing’s the past 4 years.
