Harpin - EXPLOSIVE Rose Tomato Plant Food / Hydroponic Start Price GBP 4.99 Current Price GBP 4.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price GBP 6.89 Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, August 10, 2008 End Time Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Location Colchester See more about 'Harpin - EXPLOSIVE Rose Tomato Plant Food / Hydroponic' Description             Shipment is made according to the weight of your order and depends on where you live.  Under 2kg within the UK are usually sent Royal Mail - over 2kg and overseas we use a courier service.         We accept PayPal, credit cards, bank transfer, cheques and postal orders. If you make a payment by bank transfer and are overseas you MUST pay both sides of the transaction fee charged by the bank.       We accept returns with no quibble up to 14 days from the purchase of your item - this is a LEGAL requirement for all businesses selling online. In the unlikely event that a return is request, all returns must include all original items undamaged, in re-saleable condition, all original packaging including manuals, warranty forms, etc. Software sales are not refundable. Shipping and handling fees are not refundable. Buyer is responsible for shipping costs incurred shipping products back.                        We sell CE. RoHS & FCC ApprovedLED Grow Lights Check with other sellers and ask to see their certificates...         3g Packet Harpin Protein ...Harpin is a YIELD enhancer... What is that? Yield is the amount of fruit or flowers you have at the end of a grow - and this product enhances, or increases yield - it gives you more for your money...plants  treated (and actually it’s officially called an “inoculation” of fungi by the way) with Root Granules will be larger & with bigger fruits, flowers or buds had you not treated them…...there will also be MORE fruiting and budding - so - in a nutshell...that’s “Yield Enhancement" Mix just 1g with up to 1000ml of lukewarm water, with the tiniest drop of washing up liquid to act as a wetting agent - it will lessen the tendency that the solution you have just mixed up has to want to “bead” on a plant leaf and then run off without doing it’s job....very much the same way that water “beads” off of you when you get out of a shower, pool or bath - you are not the same “wetness” all over when that water runs off of you?  The same is true of a plant...   So - by adding a tiny amount of soap suds does the same for a plant as soap does for you - increases how wet you can get without the water running off you..  mix well and spray using a conventional hand sprayer… Harpin causes EXTREME vegetative growth, protects the plant  from NEW illnesses & even from pests like spider mite!  How do you use Harpin? The vial of product we send you contains approx 3g Harpin Protein net by weight - to be separated into 3 x 1g “servings” which will be mixed with 250-1000ml of room temperature or slightly warm water in a clean, recently disinfected (i.e. bleached & well rinsed) spray bottle.  Do not use HOT or very COLD water - “juuuust right” is what’s needed - water that has sat at room temperature for a couple of hours is best, or tepid from the tap. The active ingredient in this product is a protein - a building block of life (literally!) - and as such it’s complicated structure degrades and decays over a very short space of time once mixed with your water so you will need to mix this when you are ready - and use what you mix there and then.  You have 3-4 hours of solution at room temperature before it even starts to degrade, and the process is gradual after that over a couple of days - so you have plenty of time - don't panic! :)   HOWEVER - we recommend you use what you mix on the day, and discard any thing you don't use.  Wash out, disinfect and then rinse all used equipment thoroughly ready for next time. You may want to take a VERY small amount to dilute into the water you germinate with - but you really wont need much - the end of a teaspoon heaped in 50ml water—no more. For the following three stages mix 1/3 of the vial with 200-350ml water, stir and shake vigorously* and spray liberally.  If you feel you have a totally even coverage and still have solution left, either wait for a couple of hours and repeat with remainder, or add the solution directly to the base of the stems—root uptake although not necessary wont harm the plant. Do this for: ·                Seedling stage ·                During vegetative growth ·                During budding and fruiting Simply spray the solution over as much of each leaf branch of your plants in each phase as you can — that’s all you have to do.  How was it discovered?  Harpin is a Cornell University-discovered protein that induces a plant to mobilise its own defences against pathogens and insects... Phenomenally increases plant growth... "Treating plants with the Harpin protein signals the plant to turn on its natural defence systems," says Steven V. Beer, Cornell professor of plant pathology and one of the protein's discoverers in 1991. "The plant must be treated before the pathogen attacks, and it takes several days for the plant's system to mobilize its own defences." Curiously, the protein is derived from a plant pathogen, Erwinia amylovora, the bacterium responsible for fire blight, a scourge in Northeast fruit orchards since the 18th century. The bacterium attacks apple and pear trees and many ornamentals in the rose family, leaving blackened branches, trunks, leaves, flowers and fruit. While the bacterial blight is ruinous for plants, its protein derivative is quite the opposite. "In fact, the range of its beneficial effects is rather surprising," says Alan Collmer, Cornell professor of plant pathology and a co-developer of the protein. Agricultural scientists had long sought the chemical basis of a defence response in plants called the hypersensitive reaction, which develops in the few cells in direct contact with an invading pathogen in the plant's intercellular spaces. By using a technique called molecular mutagenesis, Eva Steinberger (Cornell Ph.D., 1988) and David Bauer (Cornell Ph.D., 1990), two of Beer's graduate students, identified a number of hrp (pronounced "harp") genes of E. amylovora. These genes are involved both in fire blight infection and in the development of the hypersensitive response, essentially the suicide of plant cells attempting to thwart disease. The protein product of a particular hrp gene is Harpin, identified by researchers in Beer's laboratory. For example, when Harpin is placed in a few of the intercellular spaces of tobacco, tomato or geranium leaves, the plant cells collapse and die within 24 hours, as if bacteria had been introduced. The collapsed plant cells immobilize the bacterial cells, preventing the spread of further infection. The discovery of Harpin was spearheaded by Zhongmin Wei, then a postdoctoral fellow and research associate in Beer's lab and now vice president for research at Eden Bioscience. Former Cornell researchers Ron Laby and Cathy Zumoff participated in identifying the harpin protein, together with Bauer and Sheng Yang He, then researchers in Collmer's lab. Their findings were reported in a cover story in the journal Science (1992, Vol. 257, pp 85-88) titled "Harpin elicitor of the hypersensitive response produced by plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora." In addition to the hypersensitive response the plant pathologists found that treating plants with Harpin induced a second response called systemic acquired resistance, or SAR. This response provides protection against a broad range of pathogens. When Wei attempted to infect Harpin-treated tobacco plants with bacterial or viral pathogens of tobacco, he found that the plants rejected the pathogens. While SAR previously had been described in the scientific literature, the scientists were surprised that the Harpin protein spurred systemic resistance with no adverse effects. Researchers at Cornell and Eden then noticed the protein's third important attribute: Harpin-treated plants grew larger and faster than plants not treated with the protein, suggesting possibly higher yields and earlier maturity. These effects later were confirmed by Eden researchers in field tests in the Northwest, Florida, California, Mexico and several states in the Southeast. Growers found that Harpin accelerated ripening and improved yields on plants like cotton, citrus, peppers and tomatoes. Finally Thomas A. Zitter, Cornell professor of plant pathology, found the protein's fourth major attribute. While performing a field trial on pepper plants in 1996, he noted that the harpin-treated plants were less damaged by insects than control plants not treated with the protein."That study alerted us to the possibility that Harpin induces resistance to insects," says Beer. "It's a really peculiar protein," Beer says. "When the isolated protein from the bacteria is applied to many sorts of plants, pathogen resistance develops and other beneficial effects occur too..."         Treated rose bush vs two untreated: Fuel Bills are set to rise this year by 60% - this would take the cost of running a SINGLE 600w HPS Bulb to almost £1000.00 PER year PLUS the cost of the equipment.  With 180w of LED Grow Light you have the same amount of "Right Light" as with a 600w bulb - at about the same initial cost and with AT LEAST ONE THIRD of the running cost - none of the hassle. 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