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Maven Elicitex Mist is a ready-to-use plant immune defence biostimulator foliar spray. It uses food-grade elicitors to activate the plant's natural defences against pests and pathogens. It also enhances crop quality, taste, and extends shelf life. Safe for all grow media.
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Maven Elicitex Mist is an advanced, ready-to-use plant immune defence biostimulator spray formulated using biorational green chemistry to provide environmentally sustainable protection for your crops. This cutting-edge foliar application utilises a proprietary blend of modified plant elicitors, including food-grade chitooligosaccharides (COs) and ß-glucans, which "switch on" your plants' natural defence systems. Ideal for professional plant growth programmes and home growers practicing Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Elicitex Mist enhances plant resilience against threats while simultaneously boosting crop quality and nutrient density. Give your hydroponic setup the protective edge it deserves, ensuring vigorous growth from propagation through to harvest. For best results in your entire system, pair Elicitex Mist with premium Hydroponic Nutrients and high-efficiency LED Grow Lights.
Key Benefits of using Maven Elicitex Mist
- Fast & Long-Acting Defence: Provides highly effective, indirect control against both pathogenic fungi and pest insects by stimulating the plant’s own immune response.
- Zero-Day Pre-Harvest Interval (PHI): Active substances are food-grade, allowing use right up to harvest without human toxicity or harmful residues.
- Enhances Crop Quality & Taste: Rapidly induces Plant Secondary Metabolites (PSMs), improving organoleptic properties such as flavour, smell, colour, and nutritional density.
- Reduces Water Use: Acts as a powerful anti-transpirant, significantly reducing water consumption by regulating stomatal conductance without negatively impacting growth.
- Extended Shelf Life: Helps delay crop decay, extending the firmness and preservation of harvested produce, thus reducing food waste.
- Stress Resilience: Improves plant tolerance to environmental stressors, including osmotic stress, salinity, drought, and extreme temperatures.
- Safe for Beneficials: It is not harmful to beneficial organisms, such as pollinators (like bees) or insects used for biological pest control.
- Boosts Propagation Success: Pre-conditioning of mother plants improves the success and robustness of your Propagation Supplies.
What Is Maven Elicitex Mist Used For?
Maven Elicitex Mist is used to stimulate and enhance a plant’s innate and adaptive immunity. It delivers protection against a wide spectrum of biotic and abiotic stresses, including fungal pathogens (like early and late blight), viruses, parasitic nematodes, and pest insects (including aphids, spider mites, thrips, and whiteflies). Beyond defence, it is used to accelerate ripening in non-climacteric fruits (e.g., strawberries and chillies), increase soft fruit firmness, and boost the production of valuable compounds like anthocyanins and capsaicinoids, resulting in superior quality, better-tasting harvests.
How to use Elicitex Mist
Application Method:
- Shake the bottle well before use.
- Ensure complete wetting of the different areas of the plant, including the underside of the leaves.
- Apply with even coverage until slight run-off is observed.
- Only treat established plants when they are fully hydrated.
Dosage Rates:
- Standard Prophylactic Maintenance Rate (Prevention): Spray once every 5 days.
- Infestation Treatment Rate (Active Issues): Spray once every 3 days, as required by pest or pathogen pressure, then revert to the 5-day maintenance rate.
Available in 500ml Ready To Use ("Ready to use" spray)
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does Elicitex Mist contain elicitors and biostimulants?
Elicitors (such as modified chitooligosaccharides) are included to "elicit" or trigger the plant's own endogenous chemical defence mechanisms. Biostimulants are included to promote growth and enhance nutrient efficiency, ensuring the plant has the energy required to support the induced immune response, resulting in a dual-action protection and growth boost.When is the best time in the plant's life cycle to apply Elicitex Mist?
Elicitex Mist should be used from the late vegetative growth phase onwards. Applying it too early can signal the plant to divert too much energy into defence molecules at the expense of growth. Applying it when the plant is established and fully hydrated ensures maximum effectiveness.What specific benefits does Elicitex Mist offer for soft fruit growing (e.g., strawberries)?
For soft fruits, Elicitex Mist is known to improve fruit firmness, reduce food waste by delaying decay, and rapidly induce the production of red anthocyanin pigments, leading to deeper colour, better flavour, and extended post-harvest shelf life.How does Elicitex Mist offer effective protection without directly killing pests?
The product works like a plant “vaccine.” It triggers a Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR) response by signalling the plant's immune system, making the plant's tissues, cells, and biochemistry inherently more resistant and less palatable to pests and pathogens. This indirect approach is environmentally friendly and highly effective in long-term plant health management.Can Elicitex Mist be used with all grow media?
Yes, Maven Elicitex Mist is designed to be fully compatible with all grow media.The product is an advanced foliar spray, meaning it is applied directly to the leaves of the plant, regardless of what the roots are growing in. The active ingredients are absorbed through the plant's foliage to stimulate its internal defence mechanisms.
Therefore, it can be safely and effectively used on plants grown in:
- Hydroponic Systems
- Coco Coir
- Soil and Peat-based mixes
- Rockwool
- Perlite, Clay Pebbles (LECA), and other inert media
Its formulation is biocompatible and biodegradable, ensuring it does not leave harmful residues in the grow media or the environment. The focus is on boosting the plant's health from the outside in.
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