Sturdy Stalk, Emerald Harvest’s premium potassium silicate supplement, is a valuable addition to your nutritional program at crucial stages of the crop life cycle when fruits and flowers increase in weight and girth. The silica found in the formulation helps increase the stiffness and thickness of plant cell walls, making your crops more resilient.

Resilient crops are better able to withstand environmental stressors and contribute to increased production. Sturdy Stalk also helps increase crop potency and adds a boost to flowering.

Sturdy Stalk Benefits

Stronger, Higher-Yielding Plants

Plants gain turgor thanks to elements and compounds like silicon or lignin, which serve as “cement” or “glue” between the drill-shaped components that make up plant cell walls. Silicon, in elemental form, is rarely found in nature; instead, it usually occurs as a derivative of silica (SiO2). The silica you feed your crops adds more silicon, which, in turn, strengthens plant cells. Strong cells make strong plants. Strong plants stand firmer, and don’t bend under the weight of heavy fruits and flowers.

Stronger plants withstand stress

You can protect your investments by dodging environmental stressors and reducing the risk of desiccation. Silicon-fortified plant cells are also thicker.

Sturdy Stalk protects your crops

Thicker cell walls form a more impenetrable barrier against external factors that can be harmful to plants. Sturdy Stalk helps prevent your crops from drying out. Thick cell walls help retain moisture, making outdoor crops more drought resistant and your indoor crops less prone to dehydration and drying out under the harsh artificial lighting of the grow room.

Get Explosive Blooms

Sturdy Stalk increases potassium which helps plants flower. Potassium silicate is not just a source of silicon; it is also a source of potassium. “Vitamin K” is one of the two major macronutrients most associated with flowering.

Higher Energy Harvests and Higher Yields

Sturdy Stalk unlocks energy in your crops. Plants use enormous amounts of energy by playing the role of “bricklayer.” By providing bio-available silica to your plants, you reduce their efforts in “building” and free them up to direct some of their energy elsewhere. Potassium helps your crops with photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light into energy by metabolizing carbohydrates. The energy drives vegetative growth and flowering.