SuperThrive's great. It contains Vitamin B1 -- also known as Thiamine -- which has shown in studies the potential to protect your plant from many different pathogens, bacteria, and fungi -- but not all. I'll take this excerpt from Checkbiotech.org.

"Researchers found that thiamine induces systemic acquired resistance (SAR) in plants, which enhances resistance to many, but not all fungal, bacterial, and viral pathogens. By spraying thiamine on rice, Arabidopsis, and cucumber, among other crops, and inoculating the plants with the pathogens, the researchers found that the incidence of viral and bacterial infections amongst the plants was much lower. For instance, thiamine treatment of the rice cultivator Nakdong also induced resistance to the compatible bacterial leaf blight pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae strain.

The effect of thiamine spraying lasted for as long as 15 days for the plants. These findings provide a new way by which scientists could develop strategies for the control of plant diseases."

Along with this are 1-Naphthyl Acetic Acid, an auxin in SuperThrive which assists in root development. These are two compounds among fifty vitamins and hormones in SuperThrive. Supposedly it causes a greater percentage of female flower production, meaning it acts almost as a 'feminizer' would, so to speak. I can vouch for it myself -- the only male bits on plants I get are rare hermaphrodites. Rare and unrelated to SuperThrive.

I use anywhere from one - two drops in .5 liters of water. You don't really need more than one to two drops of SuperThrive to a gallon, anyway. I typically use it each watering and each feeding up until I decide to induce flowering, and then from there I just flush and desist using it.

Why stop using it?

Because it can inhibit flowering after the onset of buds.


Max Payne's fun, huh?