Every granule of Rainbow Plant Food
contains a perfect combination of nutrients to maximize
distribution and crop yield. Here’s a sampling of
some of the minerals our granules contain:
Magnesium
– This mineral is a key element for chlorophyll development
and the formation of sugars within the plants. Magnesium also
acts as a carrier for phosphorus throughout the plant and
root system. Think of it as a highway, enabling transportation
inside your crops.
Sulfur –
Sulfur also plays a vital role in chlorophyll production.
This mineral is essential to plant growth, root development
and seed production. Sulfur also can increase the efficiency
with which plants use other minerals, such as nitrogen and
phosphorus.
Calcium –
Calcium isn’t only responsible for strong bones in growing
humans; the mineral also promotes development of a plant’s
cell strength, while affecting the plant’s uptake of
other nutrients. Got calcium?
Nitrogen –
While the human body rejects nitrogen, the mineral is a key
component of plant life. Nitrogen comprises the part of chlorophyll
involved in photosynthesis, and also is part of plant energy
systems that helps with amino acid and protein production.
Phosphorus
– Phosphorus plays a role in the all-important functions
of cell division and cell enlargement. It is a mineral every
plant needs to grow, and is therefore a mineral we make sure
we put in every one of our International, Rainbow, and Super
Rainbow Plant Food products.
Zinc –
Zinc is necessary for regulating plant growth hormones, as
well as activating plant enzymes critical to maturation. Put
simply, without zinc, plants just cannot grow up.
Boron –
Cell elasticity is critical for newly developed cells that
need to elongate rapidly, and boron promotes it better than
just about any other mineral. The nutrient is therefore perfect
for high-yield crops.
Iron –
Iron is as important to health in plants as it is to health
in humans. In plants, it acts as an oxygen carrier, helping
form certain respirator enzyme systems in most crops.
Molybdenum
– One of the only words in the English language to pit
a “b” and a “d” consecutively, molybdenum
is required for plants to reduce nitrogen to usable forms.
It’s also necessary to convert inorganic phosphorus
to organic forms.
If these minerals aren’t
enough to remember, Potassium, Copper, Chloride, and Manganese
are all also necessary for photosynthesis, chlorophyll formation,
and the activation of many other enzymes. Chloride in particular
is involved in the chemical breakdown of water in the presence
of sunlight.
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Considering
all of these choices, you can’t go wrong with Rainbow Plant
Food. All of our Rainbow grades contain Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and
Potassium. This triumvirate, a trio we call “NPK,” comprises
our basic offering of primary nutrients that play a vital role in
chlorophyll production, plant growth, root development, and seed
production. Every granule of Rainbow Plant Food also contains secondary
nutrients such as Calcium, Magnesium and Sulfur, which spur all-around
healthfulness in crops of every kind. With these standard ingredients,
we have developed different versions of Rainbow Plant Food to meet
the demands of your specific crops:
Rainbow for Alfalfa
Alfalfa plants have a central growing point and sprout from there.
With this in mind, Rainbow
for alfalfa features Boron, a mineral that enhances
cell elasticity, causing crops to grow quickly. This alfalfa-specific
product also features Magnesium, which promotes chlorophyll production,
and Calcium, a key mineral for strong cell walls. The result of
these additional nutrients, of course, is Plant Food targeted to
help your alfalfa grow tall and fast.
Rainbow for Cotton
Cotton growers know that longer, stronger fibers are the best kind
you could want. As such, we’ve crafted Rainbow
for cotton to yield the longest, strongest fibers around.
This product features Boron, which enhances cell elasticity, and
Calcium, a key mineral for strong cell walls. Both nutrients contribute
to the kind of fibers every cotton grower aspires to grow.
Rainbow for Peanuts
Peanuts are a lush crop, and in order to facilitate that lushness,
we’ve crafted Rainbow
for peanuts to incorporate as much Calcium as possible.
This mineral facilitates strong cell walls, which in this crop translates
specifically to strong peanut shells. We’ve also upped the
percentage of potassium in this product, because in peanuts, potash
helps with chemical processes such as osmotic regulation and photosynthesis.
One major difference, of course, is that Rainbow for peanuts doesn’t
contain as much Boron as some of our Rainbow products, because studies
have shown that with peanuts, less Boron is actually more. Our peanut-centric
product is just another example of how Rainbow tailors its Plant
Food offerings to the biochemical needs of each individual crop.
For you, the grower, that means higher yields and bigger payouts.
Rainbow for
Small Grains
With small grains (otherwise known as cereals), the most important
mineral is Copper, hands down. This mineral is a catalyst for metabolizing
other elements, and it works in a variety of enzymatic processes
in each plant. By the time you see a copper deficiency in your crops,
it’s too late. Naturally, then, it’s no surprise that
Copper is the key ingredient in
Rainbow for small grains. Our small grains product
contains traces of other nutrients, too, including Calcium and Boron.
The end result for you is small grain harvests that are plentiful
and healthy, year after year after year.
Rainbow for Tobacco
Tobacco grows quickly, prompting agronomists to describe it as a
crop that generates a lot of “biomass.” With this in
mind, Rainbow for tobacco
boasts unusually high amounts of Manganese, a mineral that facilitates
quick growth by stimulating chlorophyll production and other enzymatic
processes. Our tobacco-oriented Plant Food also contains Copper;
even though tobacco growers historically did not apply Copper to
their crops, Rainbow scientists have discovered that the mineral
actually makes crops healthier and stronger. By including it in
our Rainbow product, we strive to deliver these benefits on to you.
Rainbow for Vegetables
There are literally dozens of different kinds of vegetables being
grown today, but Rainbow
for vegetables boasts two nutrients that every vegetable
needs – Calcium and Boron. Calcium is critical for fruit production,
making it critical to any vegetable grower’s success. Certain
crops also can contract diseases associated with a lack of the mineral,
such as “blossom-end rot,” and others. A lack of Boron
can lead to malformations as well, which is why we pack that mineral
into our vegetable-specific product, too. Thanks to granules that
contain both of these nutrients, Rainbow gets vegetable growers
ready for anything that Mother Nature throws their way.
There you have it –
six distinct products for six different crops. With Rainbow Plant
Food, growers learn the difference between soil and pay dirt. See
for yourself today.
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