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One huge issue in our industry is the poor shelf life of plants at the retail
level. Even the best quality plants will soon suffer if inadequate care is
given at the garden center. Some of the big box stores have begun
charging back to the grower the plant loss or “shrink” the store incurs.
This can be very expensive.Over the years growers have tried increasing pot sizes, amending soil mixes with gels or other water holding materials, or even hiring maintenance workers to attend to plants once they leave the greenhouse or nursery. These remedies also can be very expensive and are not always effective. One of the easiest ways to maintain high plant quality in transit from your place of business to your customers is to drench with an application of Aqua-Gro®L with Psimatric Technology surfactant just prior to shipping. Sound too easy? It is! Applying a full rate of Aqua-Gro with Psimatric (7.6 ounces per 100 gallons of water or 600 ppm) a week before shipping will noticeably increase post-production shelf life by reducing irrigation requirements. This process incurs minimal expense – about one fifth of a cent per one-gallon container; an easy trade to dramatically reduce plant shrinkage losses. On the retail side plants are often left sitting on blacktop, drying in the hot sun with infrequent and inadequate irrigation. Plants treated with Aqua-Gro before shipping will recover from a severe wilt and to return to their original condition much better than untreated plants.  Aqua-Gro, in layman’s terms, restores all the water-retaining sites in the
soil back to their original condition. With more available water, plants
remain turgid without excess water logging of the roots or changing the
integrity of the mix.Surfactants or wetting agents are added to most quality soilless mixes at the time of manufacture but they have a short life in the mix. These surfactants decay in mixes over time reducing the volume of water retained. Contrary to popular belief the primary reason that plants need more water as they age is due to the mix aging and retaining less water. Using Aqua-Gro surfactants in production will increase watering efficiencies, maximize plant quality and reduce shrinkage in the greenhouse and at the retailers as well. Contact your Griffin salesperson to order these and many more Scotts performance proven products. 
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