Superthrive: Reviews Please.

i think it has a lot of b vitamins. has anyone considered that the exemplary images on the bottle are plants grown with other nutrients and good gardening practice instead of just water and superthrive? perhaps some growers dont see any improvements because some of their practices aren't perfect. i think superthrive provides the plant with the hormones to grow roots, help the plant metabolize nutes better, not mutate cells like a teenage mutant ninja turtle. i think a plant with big roots and a fast metabolism will grow better than a plant with a mediocre one, yet if the grower doesnt provide EVERYTHING that a plant needs, then there will be less than optimal results. thats a rule of thumb most things applied to the plant. my 2 cents.

PS.....use an EYEDROPPER. i got mine from a SCHULTZ's bottle of cactus fertilizer and just cleaned it off. it makes life sooooooooooooo much easier.

I use it when I water after transplanting...seems to work great and my roots are always healthy (in soil anyway). Kittybitches, your avatar is amazingly terrible and interesting at the same time. LMAO!

kindprincess said:

st contains auxins and other hormones and vitamins. it doesn't say, but allow me to break it down for you; superthrive is a root stim product.

i have done side by side grows, and i absolutely love st. roots are very fat, healthy, white....

no st looked like a normal grow....

wish i had pix, but look at my thread (kp gets her feet wet) and look at my roots.

love, kp

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Its the thin, hairlike roots that provide the most support - the taps are just there (mainly) for stability.

i think it works great
i will always use it as long as i am growing

Always listen to the 100% natural organic Master Gardeners. (They dam sure don't grow weed.) From what they say, Super Thrive is used in the Gardening world as a treatment for ailing plants. Like an ER solution. If this is true, a little, like the eye dropper person said, HAS to be awesome. However, an IV of it may make your plant look fine, it is then time to build up all the other factors needed, and to find out why the plant needed it in the first place. But as an additional additive, how could you go wrong? If you have everything else needed. Just my 2 cents worth.

I think it has the odor of the flintstone vitamins we had when Iwas a kid. (30+ years ago) .

I like it, I use it and I put just a few grains of shultz rooting power in my water too.

Used superthrive this year on a few small C plants, one in particular I went really heavy with it, to see if the auxins would stunt it. They did, but I also transplanted it once every two weeks to try and help dwarf it. (It worked.) The other plants, I really didn't notice much difference, but it didn't hurt them either. Used it on tomato and marigolds and peppers also.

if you transplanted it every 2 weeks that's probably what stunted it.

So did you bud out the dwarf plant yet? I'm kind of curious about this dwarf plant thing, I have space limitations so smaller plants would be good.

I wondered if you could make a Marijuana Bonzai, how cool would that be?

i use it as the sole additive in my aero cloner. i dont even use gels or powders anymore. i get the same results in the same amount of time. i also use it after transplants. i have done side by sides on transplants from the cloner to soil, and the ST plants ALWAYS do better than the ones without it.

just my 2 cents

I think superthrive is as good as it says it is on the bottle, when used in moderation.

Miss... I haven't done anything to it as to flowering. It's outside and might let it do it naturally. This one was kind of an experiment anyway, PGR (pretty good reefer, from a friend,) so I'd kind of like to find out how long it takes to mature the buds. Haven't tried to slow it down any in the last week or two, except for a FIM and top both. Just letting it go now, it's about six inches or so and probably won't get much taller. It's in pre-flower but with the stunting and all it hasn't shown what sex it'll be. Right now heading out back to play with the tomato plants, see what damage I can do to the whiteflies and such.

I used super thrive in a bubbler for my clones...with just tap water at 260 ppm from the city and adding 1/4 teaspoon of superthrive I got the clones to show signs of roots in 3 days! I now add it as a part of the supplement to feeding as it is a vitamin B amongst other hormones like an elixir (I believe--no fact to that) I have yet to try the clone with no Thrive and see results, but after a few rounds of cloning powder and pete pellets and lowering the soil PH to just have the clones sit in dirt! Then trying it with Thrive and water and 3 days---Well no reason to go back.

Trashed said:

Miss... I haven't done anything to it as to flowering.

It's outside and might let it do it naturally.


Pending on where you live the light is probably not long enough to support a natural veg and grow as the days in the Western Hemisphere are increasing thereby nature is gearing for spring and Vegging. Not till the days get 12 hours short does the plant usually flower. So IF you already have a plant that is in Flower and move it outside and live in the Western Hemisphere you are about 11 hours of light and gradually getting to a full 14 hour day which is about mid March to get the stuff in the ground.


This one was kind of an experiment anyway, PGR (pretty good reefer, from a friend,)

so I'd kind of like to find out how long it takes to mature the buds.

1 month Vegging or growing till the nodes /branches on either side of the stem are sprouting uneven. Then about 2 months for Flowering. 90 days there abouts pending on light conditions

Haven't tried to slow it down any in the last week or two, except for a FIM and top both.

Just letting it go now, it's about six inches or so and probably won't get much taller.

It's in pre-flower but with the stunting and all it hasn't shown what sex it'll be.

you need to induce flowering to know sex, there are sprays you can use to sway the sex as long as you are in Veg mode. Also the light used if natural light or made light.

2700 color will influence the sex as well as 5500 color will too as well as length of time of light. Quite a science very rewarding and real interesting hobbie.

Right now heading out back to play with the tomato plants, see what damage I can do to the whiteflies and such.

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your light needs to be around 12/12 to get her to flower---inconsistency in lighting has an effect after 3 days in a row.
IE:
changing light time of off and on.
If she is outside and she is not gonna get much taller she is lacking light, You should FIM or not F --- with it---at all for a month before flowering, otherwise you will stunt the flower at least a week. Info From the Bible Jorge C.

It smells like the sausage called Giant Firecracker.
A recovering addict friend of mine says it smells like heroin, because its loaded with b vitamins.

I like it at a drop a gallon. I usually remember it about once a month.

My roots are happy, but it could be happenstance.

I use it around cloning and that's it. It helps build a more robust root structure from the start.

You people have me rolling in the floor over the smell of it.. I have to go buy a bottle now just to smell the awkward foul smell..lol Is it anything like belly button smell? Now thats a weird smell..

I just use it when I transplant at a drop or two per gallon and the plants always seem to start growing crazy about 3 days after transplant but that might or might not be due to the Superthrive. It does reak though and you cant stop smelling it for some reason even though it reaks like nasty old vitamins.

i tried it. i must of used too much because i nuked my only female but the plants that took it, took it hella great! even tho they all turned males, they bushed up within a month.

iamomeed said:

i wish it came w a dropper.....i used one tsp/gallon one time oops! dead plants

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Haha, that's funny. This is very old thread, but still a very popular debate, so I'm going to chime in. Someone else around here who comes off as a Superthrive guru swears by adding 1 TABLESPOON per gallon! It'll be a cold day in hell before I try using anything remotely approaching that ratio on a plant unless I'm bored, high, and have so many plants that I don't care what happens to just one of them lol. By all accounts it's so strong that I can't even fathom what that would do... it's roughly 12 times stronger than the suggested ratio on the packaging (1.25ml/gal), and most people recommend just a single drop per gallon.

I think pretty much everyone wishes it came with a dropper, it's ridiculous that it doesn't.