Less stress, more success!
The Power of Purity
Brimming with bioactive compounds and phytohormones, flourish reduces stress, improves plant growth, and unleashes bloom potential. Boost germination rates, enhance vegetative vigour, and witness stunning flower development.
Delivering Biological Benefits to All Growers
The bioactive compounds in seaweed extracts offer plants myriad benefits such as increased nutrient uptake, elevated environmental stress tolerance, protection from pathogens, improved growth response, and enhanced fruit and flower development. Contrary to popular belief, pure seaweed extracts are not fertilisers because they actually contain very low quantities of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Seaweed is often misreported as a good source of trace elements. However, it’s the bioactive compounds in seaweed that are responsible for its growth-enhancing effects.
Key bioactive compounds include:
Phytohormones
These plant hormones coordinate cellular activities, leading to improved growth characteristics like increased shoot and root growth, flower numbers, fruit and bud set, increased chlorophyll content, and yield increase. Cytokinins, auxins, and gibberellins are some of the major phytohormone components in seaweed extracts.
Polysaccharides
These compounds in seaweed extracts can enhance plant resistance to a wide range of stressors, including biotic factors like pests and disease. Alginic acid, a polysaccharide found in seaweed, can induce changes in gene regulation with key implications for plant defence mechanisms. Other polysaccharides found in seaweed include laminarin, fucoidan, and mannitol.
Betaines
Found in seaweed, these modified amino acids help protect the plant against environmental stresses such as drought, salinity, heat, and cold stress.
How to Use Flourish
Unlike traditional seaweed extracts, flourish is clean and pure enough for use in all growing situations, from organic living soil to hydroponic reservoirs. Through our proprietary processing technique, we’ve created a unique, ultra-purified extract. Experience a clean, fully soluble, and highly stable seaweed extract that remains fresh in your hydroponic system for weeks – no fouling, no blockages, just steady support for your plants—even in the most demanding growing conditions.
Root Feed
Apply 0.25-0.5ml per litre with every watering.
Foliar Feed
Spray 10ml per litre every 10-14 days.
As a root feed, flourish is suitable for use in all growth stages. It works great as a seed soak, cube soak, and all-round propagation aid, providing young plants and seedlings with a bioactive boost when they need it most. Continue to use flourish when transplanting into a fresh substrate to help your plants cope with transplant shock and encourage explosive root growth. Once you have repotted, continue using flourish throughout the vegetative and flowering growth phases. You can stop using flourish as a root feed one or two weeks before harvest.
Ideal for High Intensity Cultivation Environments
Growing with LEDs? flourish is your go-to solution to overcome the challenges of higher air temperatures, faster wet/dry cycles, and intense LED lighting. Thrive through every growth stage, from seedling to harvest, and enjoy a garden that truly wins, not just making it to the finish line.
Sourced from Pristine Waters
Flourish is derived from the renowned seaweed species, Ascophyllum nodosum, hand-harvested from the clean tidal waters of Northwest Scotland and the West Coast of Ireland. Our commitment to sustainability means that every batch is extracted without harmful chemicals, ensuring the highest quality bioactive compounds that nature intended.
Seaweed vs Seaweed Extracts
Throughout history, seaweed has been an essential ally to farmers and growers. Its incorporation as dried seaweed meal into the soil or growing media yields numerous benefits, such as enhancing soil microbial activity, elevating potassium levels, enriching organic matter, and improving water retention. However, this traditional approach may take longer to yield growth-enhancing results.
A Superior Seaweed Extract
The extraction method plays a crucial role in the quality of seaweed extracts, determining the abundance of bioactive compounds harvested. Most commonly, the aggressive liquid potassium hydroxide is used in the extraction process, leading to an alkaline mush of seaweed, later filtered to produce the extract. These conventional extracts are high in potassium, which can disrupt water pH once diluted, and often lack the desired compounds for optimal plant stimulation.
Typical Analysis
Elements
Nitrogen 0 %
Phosphorus 0 %
Potassium 0.5 %
Sodium 0.13 %
Calcium 600 mg/kg (ppm)
Magnesium 325 mg/kg (ppm)
Sulphur 750 mg/kg (ppm)
Boron 11.5 mg/kg (ppm)
Copper 3 mg/kg (ppm)
Zinc 0.1 mg/kg (ppm)
Iron 4.5 mg/kg (ppm)
Manganese 2.5 mg/kg (ppm)
Molybdenum 0.1 mg/kg (ppm)
Alginic Acid 4.125 g/100ml
Laminarin 1.12 g/100ml
Fucoidan 1.19 g/100ml
Mannitol 0.44 g/100ml
Betaines 36 mg/100ml
Auxins 10 mg/100ml
Gibberellins 5 mg/100ml
Cytokinin’s 10 mg/100ml
Heavy Metals
Arsenic 1.55 mg/kg (ppm)
Cadmium <0.1 mg/kg (ppm)
Chromium <0.1 mg/kg (ppm)
Lead <0.2 mg/kg (ppm)
Mercury 0.95 mg/kg (ppm)
Nickel 0.06 mg/kg (ppm)
Seaweed Solids 3-4% w/v
Organic matter 2.5 %
pH 4.2