Do Plants Need Vitamins?
Vitamins are organic substances that are present in very small amounts in plants. Similar to the effects on humans, Vitamins benefit plants in many ways. They are essential for normal metabolism and basic plant functions, and serve a beneficial role in plant growth, health, and development. Vitamins also work in soils to enhance beneficial bacteria vigor. This directly benefits plant performance and health.
What Nutrients Do Plants Need?
Carbon, Oxygen, and Hydrogen are Elements that plants use to form carbohydrates that provide for basic plant functions. These elements also serve as an energy source for the plant and organisms that live in and around the plant and root zone.
There are six Macronutrients required for plants to survive: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium, and Sulfur. In addition to these, nine micronutrients, as well as vitamins are also essential for plants to grow and thrive.
What Are Amino Acids For Plants?
L-Amino Acids, also known as Protein Hydrolysates, are organic compounds that are obtained through the process of hydrolysis, from both plant and animal waste products. This happens when those waste products are formed into liquid or solid forms through chemical, enzymatic, or thermal processes. Amino Acids combine in nature to form proteins. Amino Acids are essential for plant growth, health, and function.
Amino Acids are an organic source of Nitrogen that hold many benefits as Plant Biostimulants for growth, soil health, and stress tolerance.
Why Are Vitamins and Amino Acids Essential To Your Grow?
- Improves Seed Germination
- Essential Elements For Basic Plant Function
- Increases Nutrient Use Efficiency/Promotes Plant Growth
- Enhances Stress Tolerance
- Improves Soil Fertility and Vigor
How Do Vitamins and L-Amino Acids Benefit Your Plants?
Germination and Seedling Growth
The multiple roles that Vitamins and Amino Acids serve for plants starts at the beginning; seed germination.
Effective use of these beneficials include various seed priming and soil inoculation methods that improve plant starts. Use as a soil amendment, seed coating, banding, biopriming, and other methods have all shown to be effective.
These Biostimulants create chemical compounds and act as signaling mechanisms in plants for enhanced early root growth, mass, and placement. ‘Auxins’ are plant hormones that regulate and affect cell and root formation in plants. These Auxins are found most notably around the Amino Acid L-Tryptophan, which releases compounds that trigger the root forming hormones.
Other Vitamins, like Thiamine (B1), and the Amino L-Glutamic Acid work to signal plants for root placement in nutrient rich areas, and also stimulate the metabolism of root cells.
Basic Plant Functions
Vitamins are essential compounds necessary for both Humans and Plants to survive and thrive. Amino Acids are the ‘building blocks’ for Protein Formation in Nature.
Used in both foliar and soil treatments, Vitamins and Aminos serve many functions that assist in the production of the necessary compounds for plants and soil bacteria to dwell.
Increasing the availability of these Biostimulants in the plant environment allows for increased metabolism of root cells (Vitamin B1), photosynthesis, chlorophyll production, cell wall growth, phytohormone synthesis (Vitamin C), and enzyme regulation (Vitamin K).
The action resulting from Amino Acids within the soil activates microflora vigor, which in turn increases soil fertility, respiration, and the formation of chemical triggers for increased plant performance, nutritional quality, and yields.
Amino Acids act as an energy source for all of the beneficial microbes in the rhizosphere to go to work for your plants.
Nutrient Use Efficiency/Plant Growth
Getting water and nutrients to plants where and when it counts is key to growing awesome plants.
Maximizing nutrient use is a key component that makes Vitamins and Amino Acids powerful Plant Biostimulants. Studies have shown that these Plant Biostimulants increased yields and quality, at a lower rate of added nutrients.
Amino Acids promote plant growth through the increased acquisition and assimilation of Nitrogen as well as increasing Carbon metabolism. This is accomplished by enzyme activity, fueled by the energy and chemical processes started by the Amino Acids. Aminos chelate micronutrients that are made more easily available to plants by the chelation process. This boost in nutrient efficiency acts to promote growth, increase fruit set and enlargement, quality, color, and antioxidant quantity of fruits and vegetables.
Vitamins also contribute to nutrient efficiency and plant growth. Vitamins C, B2, B3, B6, and B12 work to increase the functionality of basic plant processes, by eliciting responses to over 140 chemical reactions that occur within plant cells. Including Nitrogen metabolism, Vitamin uptake from soil, antioxidant effects, transpiration, respiration, and other important plant growth functions.
Stress Tolerance
60-70% of crop yield loses in agriculture can be attributed to plant stress.
Heavy Metals, Salinity, Drought, Temperature Extremes, and Pathogens. These are many of the stresses that can damage, and kill plants.
These stressors are controlled by Amino Acids such as Glycine and Proline. They scavenge for free radicals, buffering salts, and chelating heavy metal ions as antioxidants. They regulate hormones, release secondary metabolites and enzymes that protect against these plant killers in various ways.
Some Vitamins also hold antioxidant properties that combat ozone, smog, drought, and UV radiation damage to plant parts. Potential damage from high intensity lighting can be minimized by Amino Acids. Vitamin B1 is cited to activate plant resistance to pathogens such as downy mildew. These defenses, in turn, result in healthier, vibrant plants.
Soil Fertility and Microflora Vigor
Healthy, living soils grow the best plants, period.
Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (Beneficial Bacteria) feed and are energized by Vitamins (Biotin) and Amino Acids. Both within the soil ecosystem as well as the Phyllosphere, or plant surface microbiome.
L-Amino Acids are a source of organic Nitrogen, and increase the activity and health of beneficial bacteria. This enables them to work with plants for maximum benefit. Increased pathogen defense, soil respiration, soil tilth, vitamin synthesis, and nutrient availibility are some of the positive effects.
Just as in the soil, a microbiome lives on outside plant parts as well. Treating with foliar sprays contributes to overall bacterial health and vigor. Foliar sprays can assist plants in pathogen defense, UV tolerance, drought stress tolerance, fruit quality, and increased nutrient availability and uptake.
Amino Acids can be easily absorbed through plant leaves and are known to improve transpiration, photosynthesis, and chlorophyll production.
Simplify The Science
Vitamins and L-Amino Acids are essential to growing great plants. A unique, powerful combination that complement the Essential Biostimulants in GreenEden Inoculant products.
With Multiple Roles as Plant and Soil Boosting Compounds, these Plant Biostimulants Give Your Plants What they Crave. A Biodynamic, Healthy Ecosystem Alive with Supercharged Organic Beneficials that are Guaranteed to Boost Your Grow The Natural Way.
