Growth Technology - Now in NZ

Calcium is needed by plants to help form strong, healthy roots, leaves and stems.

Cracked, split or curling leaves. Slow, stunted or deformed growth. Buds that fall off before plants flower...  

...all common signs of a calcium deficiency.

The majority of fertilisers don’t include calcium, even though calcium is essential for plants.

Unlike many other essential nutrients, which plants can shift from old to new growth when there’s a deficiency, calcium is not a mobile nutrient.

If there’s a calcium deficiency when new growth forms, the damage is done for the life of that stem, leaf or bud

That new growth may never reach its potential, staying small, cracked, split or deformed, or rot and die early.

Avoid calcium deficiencies and excesses with GT Focus and CCS.

Potassium is also an essential nutrient. Potassium chloride is widely used in fertiliser as it’s high in potassium. However, it’s also high in chloride.

The shift to chloride-free potassium sources is being driven by the demand for more sustainable agricultural production that increases yield, without harming soil health.

In small quantities outdoors, chlorides shouldn’t cause issues. Excess can leach away. It's a different story for our indoor plants.

Too much chloride can cause scorched leaf edges, smaller, thicker leaves and slowed or stunted growth. As salts in soil increase, they ‘steal’ water from the roots, and harm beneficial organisms in the soil.

Over time, soil pH changes, turning safe nutrients toxic, and putting plants at risk of an early, preventable death.

GT uses only cloride-free potassium, and urea-free nitrogen.

Many of our favourite indoor plants come from warm, humid habitats where soil pH is naturally more acidic.

Soil pH matters.

Too acidic and some nutrients become toxic while others like calcium get 'locked up' in the soil. 

Too alkaline and critical nutrients like phosphorus become unavailable.

GT is pH buffered to 6 once diluted, slightly acidic, right where tropical-loving indoor plants prefer, and where nutrients become ideally available, helping avoid both deficiencies and toxic levels.

Pronounced 'key-lay-ted' (think of a key unlocking a door).

Chelating minerals 'unlocks' the 5 essential metal nutrients: 
Iron, manganese, magnesium, zinc and copper

Metal nutrients can react with oxygen and ions in the soil, turning them into solids, locking them in a form plants can't use.

Chelation adds organic molecules to protect these precious metals, keeping these critical nutrients unlocked, water-soluble and available to your plants.

All metal nutrients in GT are chelated to avoid deficiencies and make sure plants get what they need, when they need it.