The Only True Foliage Protection

FOLIAR ANTI-TRANSPIRANT
& PROTECTIVE PLANT COATING

· Protects plants and palm trees against drought, frost damage and adverse weather conditions.

· Use as an environmentally friendly alternative to pesticides and fungicides.

· Stops moisture loss during harvest, grading, storage, shipping and transplanting.

· Safe - Easy to use - No danger of plant and palm tree phytotoxicity - Non-Ionic

This foliage protection spray is a dual-purpose clear liquid plant and palm tree coating that forms a prophylactic shield on plants and palms and significantly reduces plant stress from a number of causes like water loss and many other environmental factors. This physical barrier also protects palm trees and plants against damage from a large variety of insects, disease, UV degradation, frost, windburn and acid rain. With a single application of this foliage protection spray you create multiple benefits for your palm trees and plants. This is extremely cost effective and as a bonus the reduction of toxic chemicals going into the soil or ground water is beneficial to the earth.

USE THIS FOLIAGE PROTECTION SPRAY AS AN ANTI-TRANSPIRANT

University and field tests have shown this foliage protection spray to be the most effective of all anti-transpirants and anti-desiccants. Why is this? This foliage protection spray uses a completely different chemistry than typical foliar anti-transpirants.

This foliage protection spray's patented formula contains a tough adhesive resin that has an extremely low vapor transmission rate. This resin allows this foliage protection spray to be used at any dilution with virtually no danger of plant phytotoxicity. This foliage protection spray is fortified with two high-grade surfactants, a UV inhibitor and a waterproofing agent to prevent the dried film from leeching off the leaf and frond surface. This foliage protection spray enhances plant and palm appearance with a slight gloss coating and will not stick in sprayers like standard anti-transpirants.

This foliage protection spray is extremely effective as a frost protector, as an anti-transpirant, and anti-desiccant. This foliage protection spray can be applied to dormant woody plants to reduce water loss during harvest, storage, shipping and re-planting. It improves the survival of trees and plants exposed to any type of stress, especially species that are sensitive to water-loss. This foliage protection spray is effective for roses, cane-berries, fruit trees, vines, and ornamentals. It is especially effective for big-leaf evergreens during extreme cold conditions.

THIS FOLIAGE PROTECTION SPRAY AS A PROTECTIVE PALM TREE AND PLANT COATING

Spraying this foliage protection spray on a palm tree or plant is like wrapping the plant in a clear, strong membrane. Unlike chemicals that use active agents and toxicants to kill or repel, this foliage protection spray offers a completely different type of safe passive mechanical plant and tree protection. This foliage protection spray actually forms a physical barrier on the plant surface to protect it against all types of damage. This is an entirely new concept in total plant and palm tree protection and it comes with the additional benefits offered by the best of the foliar anti-transpirants. This foliage protection spray's unique new approach to plant protection is not a cure-all but it does offer the option to protect palms and plants in a gentler way. This foliage protection spray will have no impact or negative effect on ground water or soil.

It is completely safe and offers no hazard to the persons that handle it.

TRY THIS FOLIAGE PROTECTION SPRAY AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL SUBSTITUTE FOR FUNGICIDES AND INSECTICIDES.

SPECIAL USES FOR THIS FOLIAGE PROTECTION SPRAY

New! As an Alternative to Traditional Pesticides and Fungicides

CHRISTMAS TREES AND GREENERY: This foliage protection spray extends the life of cut Christmas trees, holly and wreaths by reducing water loss through the needles and stems. This foliage protection spray keeps cut evergreens green for longer periods of time and reduces needle drop. This foliage protection spray improves the appearance of trees and greens by providing a healthy looking clear glossy coating.

OTHER USES FOR THIS FOLIAGE PROTECTION SPRAY: This foliage protection spray is excellent for use in the propagation of hardwood and softwood cuttings, storage of bulbs and tubers, budding and grafting of plants. It can be applied to pruning cuts to prevent excessive moisture loss and it reduces access of disease and insects through the cut area. It also reduces water loss and water uptake of seedlings during germination. Use this foliage protection spray any time for the reduction of water loss which will benefit plant quality and survival. This foliage protection spray concentrate also reduces the amount of irrigation water required and the labor cost of applying it.

How This Foliage Protection Spray Protects Plants from Freezing

Cells are killed when ice is formed within the cell. Freezing temperature alone does not kill cells. In order to form ice the water within cells requires "seeding" of the water with an "ice crystal" or anything that mimics an ice crystal. If no "ice crystals" form, the water in plant cells can supercool well below the freezing point, e.g. below 0C or 32F...e.g. near minus 100C. In other words it does not form ice even well below the freezing point if no "ice crystal" is present. Thus, one way of preventing death of cells at freezing temperatures is to prevent the formation of "ice crystals" within cells.

The sources of "ice crystals" in nature are:

· Natural ice, e.g. from frost, snow, etc.

· Ice nucleating bacteria...INA bacteria which mimics an ice crystal...this is how snow is formed in the atmosphere.

Not all bacteria are INA bacteria...only those that have a special protein that mimics ice crystals.
Most INA bacteria is found ubiquitously in nature, or may be found in some plant tissues.

How does this foliage protection spray protect palm trees and plants from "ice crystals"?

One theory is that it forms a prophylactic barrier around the surfaces of plant and palm leaf tissues and prevents the INA bacteria from entering the plant and palm leaf tissues. It may also prevent ice formed on the surfaces from entering the tissues. This is all theory and yet to be proven.

How else does this foliage protection spray protect plants from injury during freezing conditions?

Many plants and palm trees are sensitive to desiccation...we know a moisture barrier can prevent plants form dehydrating during freezing conditions. The best know anti-transpirant for this purpose, according to extensive university studies, is this foliage protection spray.

This Foliage Protection Spray As an Alternative to Traditional Pesticides and Fungicides

University and field tests have shown repeatedly that this foliage protection spray is the most effective of all foliar anti-transpirants. In what was probably the most complete test of anti-transpirants, and their ability to protect plants, test results found only one product to be effective. That product was this foliage protection spray! This foliage protection spray's major advantages over other foliar anti-transpirants are due to its extremely low vapor transmission rate, which allows it to form a substantially strong film with no phytotoxic damage. The toughness of this membrane is what also allows this foliage protection spray to be such an effective agent in protecting plants against environmental trauma.

Now an exciting new use for this foliage protection spray has been discovered!

This foliage protection spray is a non-toxic, biodegradable coating that contains no active agent that controls, kills or repels insects, mites, bacteria and fungi. However, this foliage protection spray does offer a unique mechanical type protection by forming a prophylactic like barrier on the plant and palm tree surface. Many pathologists believe that the cuticle (waxy coating on the surface of the plants epidermis) protects plants from diseases, mites and insects. In essence this foliage protection spray adds substantial strength and thickness to the cuticle by forming a more substantial barrier, without causing any detrimental side effects. This foliage protection spray keeps water in and keeps nature out.

This ability to form such a tough, high build mil-thickness film with little or no reported phytotoxic effects, is the primary reason that growers are finding this foliage protection spray to be a viable alternative to many toxic chemicals. This single application of this foliage protection spray that is so effective at keeping water within the palm tree and plant, offers the same benefits in keeping out insects, mites, bacteria and fungi pathogens, and it does it for extended periods of time. This product has received a number of responses from growers across the country telling us of their impressive results using this foliage protection spray as a plant protector. These growers were especially impressed that a single application of this foliage protection spray also offered them the additional advantages of protection against frost damage and drought conditions.

The purpose of this bulletin is to alert nurserymen and others to a potential new way of protecting plants without the use of toxic-chemicals. This concept can offer a myriad of advantages in the horticultural industry. The cost saving alone makes this a valuable profit factor to the grower. Imagine also, the benefits to soil and ground water and to employees by reducing their exposure to toxic chemicals.

There are four good reasons to consider this foliage protection spray as an alternative to pesticides and fungicides:

This foliage protection spray is less expensive than pesticides.
This foliage protection spray contains no toxic ingredients.
This foliage protection spray offers a dual advantage of plant and tree protection from diseases and insects and as an anti-transpirant.
Unlike insecticides, miticide, bactericides and fungicides this foliage protection spray does not promote mutation of new super strains of insects, bacteria and fungi that become resistant to pesticides.

The concept of a barrier protection as a safer way to protect palms and plants has proven successful against diseases, mites, and other insects on a variety of plants including arborvitae, rhododendrons, azaleas, roses, fruit trees, and other deciduous trees. This foliage protection spray has also proven effective against disease organisms such as powdery mildew and a number of other plant pathogens.

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