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Our featured product this Memorial Day is WILT-PRUF. Wilt-Pruf is something every gardener or flower keeper should have on hand all season long to prevent plant wilting.
Sixty years ago WILT-PRUF® was discovered and became the first anti-transpirant on the market. A product such as this was needed in horticulture to enable nurserymen to transplant shrubs and trees any time of year without fear of excessive transpiration which could cause plant failure.
Over the years, it was discovered that anti-transpirants had many additional but related uses—
- Wilt-pruf provides protection against drying out when evergreen roots were frozen in wintertime, as well as during periods of drought. These times of stress deprive plants of their normal moisture intake.
- Anti-transpirants like Wilt-pruf were found to be effective on cut Christmas trees, wreaths, and greens to retard needle drop by keeping existing moisture in the foliage.
- Many indoor plants could survive longer periods without watering by treatment with an anti-transpirant like Wilt-pruf.
- And ornamentals exposed to excessive warm or cold winds were protected from drying out by spraying with WiltPruf or similar anti-transpirants.
- Storage of tubers, bulbs, and bare root stock was more successful when they were first dipped in an anti-transpirant solution like Wilt-Pruf.
WILT-PRUF® is a natural product derived from the resin of the pine tree which we call a polyterpene polymer or more specifically a beta-pinene polymer which is a film forming short chain polymer component. When our product is sprayed on plant surfaces, the water evaporates leaving a soft, flexible film which degrades one molecular layer at a time when exposed to air and light.
This film immediately starts a polymerization into a longer chain, higher weight molecule. However, the entire thickness of the film does not polymerize at the same rate. Only the surface molecular layer is going through rapid polymerization.
The molecular layer of the film that is attached and sticking to the leaf is staying a low weight, soft, sticky substance. The film slowly weathers away through this polymerization mode where the top layer fully polymerizes becoming a solid material. It powders away in microscopic flakes which are either washed or blown away, as the rest of the layers go through the same process until the entire film is weathered away.
This normally takes about two months under hot, summer conditions and four to six months under cold weather conditions.
