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BRODHEADSVILLE, PA – The Liquid Fence® Pro Division introduces Ecologic™ FreezePruf™ – a new foliar/floral spray that acts like an “anti-freeze” for turf and plants,  helping extend both the growing season and the USDA Zone rating for your area.

As temperatures fall, a dose of FreezePruf can buy growers and turf specialists more time and save hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in damage.

“What’s really exciting is that it extends the early spring growing season by a few weeks and will extend the growing season by a few more weeks in the fall,” says Dr. David Francko, a botanist at The University of Alabama and lead developer of FreezePruf.

Its breakthrough formula and mode of action add approximately a half-USDA Zone equivalent to the cold tolerance range of major ornamentals and crops.

“For example, a plant that is normally hardy to the low teens Fahrenheit (Zone 8a) can be grown with little or no damage in Zone 7b if treated with FreezePruf,” says Francko.  “It’s like moving your temperature zone about 200 miles farther south which is highly significant.”

Improves plant cold tolerance
This easy-to-use, biodegradable frost/freeze protector spray increases plant resistance to both cold damage and cold mortality. FreezePruf improves a plant’s cold tolerance in both foliage and flowers of monocot and dicot plants up to 9.4°Fahrenheit, depending on plant variety.

Francko explains: “A plant’s ability to tolerate extreme cold depends on two groups of mechanisms – one prevents water in tissues from freezing at temperatures at or modestly below freezing; the second increases tolerance to tissue ice when it gets so cold that ice does form.”

FreezePruf addresses both, by enhancing a plant’s natural “anti-freeze” properties and reducing the damage to plant tissues caused by ice crystal formation.

“This is an important distinction,” says Francko. “Products before FreezePruf only helped with freeze avoidance- good for tender plants but not cold hardy plants. FreezePruf protects both the plant and the flower so plants can, in some cases, be frozen solid and still be viable.”

How it Works
Francko developed the novel spray along with scientists from Miami (Ohio) University. The proprietary mixture combines five ingredients – two cryoprotectants with different modes of action, a surfactant, a cell wall reinforcing compound and an antidessicant that work together to protect the foliage and flowers, both systemically and externally.

With mechanisms proven to work well on ornamentals and turf, fruit and vegetable plants, it’s been successfully tested on a wide variety of plants like bananas, palms, tropical foliage and flowering plants, perennials, vegetable and fruit crops, including citrus.

“This past spring we had a very late freeze that made my young tomato plants literally rigid with frost. Because they were treated with FreezePruf — before the freeze event — they thawed later in the morning with only minor foliar and floral burning!” Francko enthused.

EcoLogic FreezePruf is non-toxic, inexpensive, and can be applied once per season or right before a freeze event and its guaranteed protection lasts up to 6 weeks.

It’s available in quart, 2.5.15, 55, and 260 gallon concentrates through Liquid Fence® PRO Division.

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BRODHEADSVILLE, PA – Professional turf and plant growers will get more ‘bang for the buck’ with two new Liquid Fence® PRO Division’s EcoLogic™ products: APG-em™ organic fertilizer and SG™organic root accelerator.

These products are expanding the Liquid Fence EcoLogic™ “green” line of eco-friendly products that are available to commercial growers, horticulturists, turf specialists and landscape professionals. These OMRI pending products are easy-to- use, biodegradable, beneficial to soil, and non-toxic to humans, animals and birds.

EcoLogic APG-em™ is a unique formula that contains two natural marine ingredients -organic Ecklonia maxima Kelp and Anchovy Marine Fish Emulsion – which work together to increase both yield and quality of crops, improve turf and landscape, and, most importantly, reduces costs.

“Think of it as fertilizer with a kick!” says Eric Gerhartz, Liquid Fence PRO Division director.

The addition of kelp in APG-em™ improves root systems to help plants resist stresses such as drought, disease, waterlogging, soil nutrient deficiency, and salinity, saving money for growers and turf specialists. The natural NPK and kelp extract provide the growth enhancement.

“Savings could be substantial,” says Gerhartz. “We estimate that simply replacing every other feeding with APG-em™- or even as an augmentation- on 600 acres could equal up to $120,000 in savings.

“And since you can substitute two traditional fertilizer feedings, turf specialists with athletic fields and golf courses can save up to $200 or more per acre, per year and realize significant savings,” he says.

Non-urea based and water soluble, EcoLogic APG-em™ allows plants to uptake nutrients easier. “This means it can be used without the fear of nitrates leaching into the soil, especially in places that have low water tables,” says Gerhartz.

The anchovy emulsion in APG-em adds major organic plant nutrients of nitrogen, potassium and phosphate. The Kelp concentrate contains auxin-like compounds and cytokinin-like compounds, along with trace vitamins and minerals, which stimulate stronger root development and flowering, and produce healthier plants.

EcoLogic SG™ is the new all-natural organic root accelerator made from Ecklonia maxima Kelp. Used in agriculture for thousands of years, kelp contains more than 70 natural minerals and trace elements, vitamins, enzymes, and proteins.

Kelp helps accelerate healthy root development, which in turn increases fruiting and foliage growth. It helps to provide resistance to disease, insects and frost.

All Liquid Fence PRO products, including the new EcoLogic™ line, come with a 100% guarantee.

For best results, start applications of APG-em™ and SG™ at seedling planting, or during cutting propagation, if possible, but always during early growing season. They’re available in 2.5 Gallon, 55 Gallon and 260 Gallon concentrates.

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