Why Does Nurture Amplifier Work so Well

Increase Your Plant’s Immunity:- Any experienced grower can testify to how profoundly frustrating it is to lose one or more plants to disease or pests. A plant that suffers stunted growth or even death because of unwanted intruders represents a lost investment and a lot of care and effort gone down the drain. Fortunately, Nurture Nutrient Amplifier can help improve your plants immunity. First, since it facilities superior nutrient uptake and provides powerful plant hormones, it will make your plant healthier and more resistant to disease. Second, NNA contains some natural antibiotic properties, which can help in suppressing harmful bacteria. These features also make it work well as a foliar fertilizer, where the antibiotic properties can help protect your leaves from infection.

Increase Nutrient Uptake :- Certain compounds in NNA facilitate the chelation of nutrients, making them much more bioavialable. This means that your current nutrient solution will be much more effective in helping your plant thrive. To further increase nutrient uptake, most hydroponic growers choose to use the nutrients additives like NNA,to significantly increasing uptake.

Stimulate Growth :- One of the best features of NNA is that it is very rich in vitamins, particularly our vitamins blend. These vitamins help provide your plant with the energy it needs to grow quickly and strong. This can be particularly helpful while cloning, when vulnerable young cuttings risk a quick death if they do not receive nutrients quickly.

Increases Yield:- You will probably notice the effects of NNA with your chosen base feed on your plant the most when it comes to harvest time. All those extra stimulants, enzymes, and nutrients will help create more voluminous flowers and many more fruits and vegetables. What’s more is that the extra boost of nutrients will help increase the quality of the harvest. Flowers will have more complex notes and sweeter fragrances and will be richer in color. Vegetables will be larger, heaver, and have more savory and complicated flavors. You won’t just enjoy yield that is more bountiful, but also more valuable.

Superoxide dismutases and why it important to plant health...

Superoxide dismutases (SODs) are metal-containing enzymes that catalyze the dismutation of superoxide radicals to oxygen and hydrogen peroxide. The enzyme has been found in all aerobic organisms examined where it plays a major role in the defense against toxic-reduced oxygen species, which are generated as byproducts of many biological oxidations. The generation of oxygen radicals can be further exacerbated during environmental adversity and consequently SOD has been proposed to be important for plant stress tolerance. In plants, three forms of the enzyme exist, as classified by their active site metal ion: copper/zinc, manganese, and iron forms. The distribution of these enzymes has been studied both at the subcellular level and at the phylogenic level. It is only in plants that all three different types of SOD coexist. Their occurrence in the different subcellular compartments of plant cells allows a study of their molecular evolution and the possibility of understanding why three functionally equivalent but structurally different types of SOD have been maintained. Several cDNA sequences that encode the different SODs have recently become available, and the use of molecular techniques have greatly increased our knowledge about this enzyme system and about oxidative stress in plants in general, such that now is an appropriate time to review our current knowledge.

Get Ready For The Summer Heat

We all know how hard it is to maintain optimal temperatures in the middle of the summer. Once the temperatures start creeping into the mid-30s and beyond, plants often begin to suffer…and so do we!

Although it’s not always possible to prevent heat stress, there are a few simple steps that can improve your plant’s tolerance to stress before the heat wave arrives.

It’s all about conditioning. If your plants have a robust root system, strong cell walls, and an extra reserve of antioxidants, they will be better prepared to handle stress when the summer heat arrives.

Here’s how to best prepare your plants to beat the summer heat.

Raise the EC Levels of Your Nutrient Solution

Stress isn’t all bad. In fact, when plants are subject to moderate stress, they often produce better colors and aromas, and the vitamin content of the fruit improves. That’s why hydroponic tomato growers often raise the EC of the nutrient solution during the fruiting and flowering stage.

The saltiness at the root zone makes it harder for the plant to take up water, so sugars and organic acids condense in the fruit. By manipulating EC, it is possible to double the lycopene content (red coloring) of tomatoes, and increase vitamin C content by up to 50%.

There is also a direct, proportional relationship between EC and sugar content in the fruit—the higher the EC, the sweeter the tomatoes.

Also, by gradually increasing EC, the plants will begin to accumulate more sugars and dissolved solutes in their roots, making them more tolerant to the effects of future salt stress.

So a little stress is good, but too much stress will put you in the hospital! If a plant experiences too much heat or salt stress, it can’t take up enough water to meet its basic needs. The edges of the leaves will start to curl back and turn brown, and it may start to show signs of calcium deficiency such as tip burn in lettuce or blossom end rot in tomatoes.

Here Comes The Heat: Improving Your Plant’s Natural Tolerance to Environmental Stress

High heat and humidity makes the problem worse. So, as the temperature increases above optimal levels, it is important to begin to dilute the EC of the nutrient solution to make it easier for the plant to take up water and nutrients.

It is also important there is plenty of air movement in the garden so plants can continue to transpire and naturally cool themselves.

Add Bio-stimulants to Your Garden

Plants have the uncanny ability to produce their own protection agents and cope with a wide variety of environmental stressors, but sometimes they need a little help.

In nature, plant growth-promoting microorganisms in the root zone make compounds that improve the plant’s tolerance to diseases and stimulate the plant to become more resistant to environmental stress.

By studying the interactions between plants and their microbial guests, plant scientists are learning how to harness the power of natural bio-stimulants to produce new and improved plant protection agents. Among the most promising organic bio-stimulants are seaweed extracts, humic acids, and L-amino acids.

When applied to the root zone, seaweed extracts stimulate increased lateral root growth and root mass, providing a healthy root mat for the uptake of water and nutrients.

If a gardener can help plants develop greater root mass before the plant begins to experience stress, the plant will be much better prepared to efficiently take up water when the summer heat arrives. 

Under normal conditions, plants produce all of the SOD they need, but during times of excessive stress, plants can’t keep up. The extra SOD levels stimulated by humic acid and seaweed extracts protect plants against damaging free radicals and help keep the plants green during the summer heat.

Humic and fulvic acids are also rich in beneficial trace elements, and they are particularly good at helping the plant take up iron. During times of stress, plants need iron and other trace metals to activate important enzymes.

For example, SOD is activated by either a zinc/copper complex or an iron/manganese complex. If the trace elements are not available, the enzymes are turned off and they won’t protect the plant, but if the enzymes are turned on, a single molecule of SOD can perform more than 1,000 chemical reactions per second in the cell.

Seaweed extracts and humic acids also contain vitamins and amino acids that help strengthen plants and provide an additional level of protection. Amino acids are intermediate chelators that help keep trace metals soluble and available to the plant. In addition, some amino acids also dramatically improve the uptake of calcium.

Certain amino acids, such as glutamic acid and glycine, stimulate root cells to open up calcium ion channels, allowing calcium to be taken up many times faster than simple osmosis.

Calcium forms the glue that holds cell walls together, strengthening the plant tissues against temperature stress, and when temperatures and humidity start to rise, the enhanced calcium availability provided by amino acids will continue to have a protective effect on the plant.

Here Comes The Heat: Improving Your Plant’s Natural Tolerance to Environmental Stress

Remember, healthy plants are naturally resistant to stress and disease. There are, of course, limits to the amount of heat stress that even healthy plants can tolerate, so we should do everything we can to provide the best environment possible.

But if a plant has a strong root system, thick cell walls, abundant trace minerals and a reserve of antioxidants and plant protection agents, it will be better prepared to beat the heat. Don’t wait until it’s too late! Give your plants a boost with kelp and humic acid before the summer comes on strong.