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Eugene,OR

Anybody know anything about Superthrive? It is recommended on giantpumpkins.com for germination assistance. Have you used it? If so what do you think about it?

2/26/2004 9:56:44 PM

Omaha, NE (N41-15-42 )

I used it all last season, although since it was my first year, it's hard to say what the impact was. I have purchased more for this year though, and I have heard from others that it works well. Last year, I added it to everything I fed the pumpkins, both soil and foliar.

2/27/2004 12:28:59 AM

Rocky-r@stny.rr.com

I use superthrive ( 2 drops per gallon ) on all my foliar feedings. I believe it did strengthen the plant tremendously, and helped in its vigor from a cold start of the season.

Hopefully with some sunshine this year (only 4 days of non cloudy days in my area last year) I can be above that 1000 pound mark. I hope superthrive will be a small part, but the work in other areas, such as soil prep, seed selection, pruning, are very important. Together, all these components come together.

Besides, the superthrive bottle took me 2 hours to read.. lol.. They have more bragadocious offerings on the bottle than Muhammed Ali did before a prize fight.

3/2/2004 8:13:31 AM

Puyallup, WA

It has been my observation that the more a company tries to
"pull itself up by its own bootstraps" the less effective its product.

3/2/2004 10:41:32 AM

Deer Park WA

I have used superthrive on several plants and the ones treated with it the pumpkins seemed to mature off earlier than the untreated ones. The treated seedlings did grow out faster though.

3/2/2004 2:13:14 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Too often when I chime in a thread of this nature I get accused of bashing the prodcut. Oh well.

My only real gripe with Super Thrive is that they won't publish a guaranteed analysis of what's in the bottle. Legally, they don't have to. The various state regulatory agencies don't consider any of these elements to be "required plant foods" therefore no analysis is required. That's not to say the ingredients aren't beneficial. Quite likely they are. But if we have no idea what they are & in what quantities, we run the risk of possibly overdoing a good thing if we were to use other auxin, vitamin, hormone, etc containing materials such as Seaweed or fish emulsion, etc.

Frustrating situation.

3/2/2004 8:25:56 PM

ny

Hormex is better, superthrive-not much to it but to much print!

3/5/2004 7:34:08 PM