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Testimonials
Just a comment or two about your anti-desiccant product called Moisturin. We here in the grounds department at Whitworth University have had tremendous success with Moisturin. Although we have started using the product extensively, on all kinds of plants with very good results, I would like to share just two examples.
Without prior warning the Whitworth University grounds department was called upon to move three 20' tall green ash trees in a summer temperature of 95 plus degrees. We had one day to move the trees or they would have been cut down and destroyed. The trees were planted on a step grade and could not be spaded. These were truly some of the worst conditions to move large trees.
The trees were sprayed with Moisturin in the morning and dug in the afternoon. The trees were dug with a small track hoe and loaded into the back of a large truck. The trees were then off loaded in our small tree nursery were they laid on the ground for 5 hot days. The trees have since been staked and planted and have been in the ground for 6 weeks. The trees haven't lost one leaf … truly amazing.
The other example among many, concerns two (8" at dbh, 35 'tall ) Crimson King Norway Maples. This is another case in point when quick action was needed to save these beautiful trees. Construction crews were coming to the Whitworth campus to demolish some old buildings. With heavy equipment and futures plans for a new visual arts building and a parking lot, these trees would have been destroyed. The trees were sprayed with a heavy rate of Moisturin . The trees were moved the next day with a Big John Tree Spade in brutally hot temperatures. Unfortunately, we did lose a few branches and leaves, but it wasn't from drying out it was from the mechanically damage of the spade.
Thank you so much for a great product, we look forward to using your product in the years ahead.
Sincerely,
Janet Wright - Supervisor of Grounds &
Landscape Services
Whitworth University
Spokane, WA 99251
Will Mellott - Campus Arborist
Whitworth University
Spokane, WA 99251
Mr. Glessner,
I marked and sprayed 6 Rhododendrom plants at various locations in Bend, Oregon last October.
I marked and did not spray 6 other Rhododendrom plants
Our climate is really hard on all big leaf evergreens and conifers and I have been looking for a way to protect them against winter desiccation. Looks like I found it.
The plants on the left are representative of all the plants I treated with Moisturin.
The plants on the right are representative of all the plants that were not sprayed.
My customers and I are looking forward to next winter with Moisturin protections.
Many Thanks,
Doug Rohan, Contractor
4/4/07
We are writing this letter in regards to our purchase of the product Moisturin from your company. We are a landscape contracting company and have been using and testing this product since the spring of 2006. We have found the materials in "Moisturin" have produced excellent results.
We are primarily a contracting company and have used the product for new plant material, on the job transplanting and plant material we hold in our inventory over the year for prospective customers. It also allows us to transplant on a year-round basis now, even in the summer when plantings are in full leaf. To date we have not lost a plant. We are also pleased when transplanting from our inventory to a job-site, our material has little to no visible wilting.
We will continue to purchase and use the Moisturin product for all our planting needs. We would also recommend this product to any of your other prospective buyers.
Richard L. Wewerka
Wewerka Construction Management Inc.
Landscape Contractors
5/23/07
We have been using Moisturin to assist our summer digging. We have found that at the recommended rates, applied the same day as harvest, deciduous material in full flush does not suffer at all. One week after digging the plants look perfect and customers have great success with transplanting.
We also sprayed Moisturin on our 4" potted liners before field planting in July and August with excellent results, the plants never missed a beat!
Andy Harding
Herman Losely & Son
Perry, Ohio 440512
12/12/06
Dear GSI Horticultural
Thank you for providing the best anti transpirant that we have ever
come across. It's so nice the best product is also the only one that has no
bad odors or vapors. You might tell your other customers we have had great
success using the Moisturin for killing bad insects, not with
poisoning. The bugs get sealed in and can't move. So they just die in
place. Thank you for a great product.
American Agriculture
Gregg Thompson
3/14/05
I first used Moisturin 10 years ago for winter protection along with Copper in my cold frames on Japanese Maple liners. I was very impressed with the results, and the ease of using the product. It can be applied through any type of sprayer and clean up is easy, as long as you don't allow it to dry in the sprayer. Moisturin will remain on the plant for up to six months, so Moisturin along with my fall fungicide application has cut the need to reapply fungicides completely out. We now do only one application in the fall for winter protection along with our fall fungicide application.
I later used Moisturin when we moved to our current location. We transplanted 15 acres of material in full leaf in late June of 1996. These plants were sprayed with Moisturin undercut and semi bare rooted. We then transported them and replanted them in the field and containers. We finished this project on the 18th of June 1996. The fact that the plants were in full leaf was one thing the other was that we had weather that week in the 90's as we finished. We never lost a leaf on any of the material that was treated and you would have never known that it had been moved.
Since that time we have been using Moisturin for winter protection, heat stress and drought, summer digging, and a spreader sticker for fungicides and insecticides.
(Non systemic types).
I have shared this product with my customers and brokers so that they can share it with you. We have shipped Moisturin all over the country to Landscapers, Wholesalers Growers, and Retailers. Each time it's a little different situation but the same result is desired and the bottom line is PLANT PROTECTION.
** Remember this product stays on the plant for approximately 6 months, so new growth may need to be retreated as needed.
** Moisturin must be mixed well to be effective. Only purchase what you will be able to use in one year, it has a one- year shelf life.
** The three main resins in Moisturin have flame retardant properties so this is great product for Christmas tree growers, Wreath makers and retailers.
If you have questions that are not answered please give me a call, I would be happy to help if I can.
Carl Munn
Brooks, OR
3/14/05
CARLTON PLANTS, DAYTON, OR.
From: Don Richards, Staff Horticulturist, Carlton Plants
"Moisturin has given our nursery the most favorable results of all the anti-desiccants we have tried in the past." "We are testing it's uses in areas such as propagation, summer transplanting, harvesting and storage and have been pleased with the results.
7/2006
Excerpt from Oregon State Article, American Nurseryman Magazine 2/15/93
For over half a century, researchers and nursery growers alike have been interested in the use of anti-transpirants and other film-forming compounds. Anti-transpirants are usually applied to the foliage and branches of trees and shrubs during summer digging - nearly always with mixed results. Waxing dormant roses and other shrubs also has been a longtime practice in the nursery industry.
Over the past decade, we have tested a variety of anti-transpirant and film-forming compounds - not all of which are marketed for bare-root use - on dormant deciduous bare-root trees. Using Crataegus phaenopyrum (Washington hawthorn) as a test species, we found that film-forming anti-transpirants such as Wilt Pruf (Wiltpruf Products, Greenwich, CT) and AntiStress 2000 (Polymer Ag Inc., Fresno, CA) were relatively ineffective - even at concentrated rates - when plants were exposed to extremely stressful desiccating conditions. Some of the waxes used in the fresh-fruit industry, such as Shield-Brite (Shield-Brite Corp., Kirkland, WA), were slightly more effective in reducing water loss and improving plant survival.
The most effective material tested was Moisturin (Glessner Sales Incorporated, Bend, OR, formerly Burke's Protective Coatings). Hawthorns plants sprayed with Moisturin before being stored in conditions that would normally kill a plant had a higher survival rate and a lower stem-dieback rate than those treated with other anti-transpirants. Field test in which Moisturin was applied to multi-stemmed Washington hawthorns have generally supported lab and greenhouse tests, but with greater variability.
Test photos - click to enlarge
PENINSULA NURSERIES, SELBYVILLE, DELAWARE
JUNE 3, 1993
WE ARE A DECIDUOUS GROWER OF SHRUBS AND TREES. OFTEN DURING THE GROWING SEASON WE ARE REQUESTED TO DIG SPECIAL ORDERS FOR OUR DISTRIBUTION CUSTOMERS. IN USING THE MOISTURIN PRODUCT WE FOUND THAT THE SHRUBS WHEN DUG ARE LESS SUBJECT TO STRESS AND WILTING.
THE BEST EXPERIENCE WE HAD UNDER THE WORST CONDITIONS WERE THE PLANTS WE DUG FOR THE LATE JULY PLANTS TRADE SHOW. THE HEAT WAS UNBEARABLE AND WE APPLIED MOISTURIN A DAY BEFORE DIGGING. WE DUG TWO OF EVERY PLANT ASSUMING, THAT THERE WOULD BE LOSSES. TO OUR DELIGHT, WE DID NOT LOSE ONE PLANT AND THE PLANTS HELD UP FOR THE FOUR-DAY TRADE SHOW AND WE RECEIVED MANY FAVORABLE COMMENTS ON THE CONDITION OF THE PLANTS.
IN EARLY SEPTEMBER WE HAD TO SUPPLY A CUSTOMER WITH 85 CONURS ALBA SIBERICA WHICH WERE STILL GROWING ACTIVELY. DUE TO HIGH TEMPERATURES AND HUMIDITY, WE WAITED AS LONG AS WE COULD TO DIG THE PLANTS BUT FINALLY WE JUST RAN OUT OF TIME. WE IRRIGATED THE BLOCK THE DAY BEFORE AND THEN SPRAYED THE PLANTS WITH MOISTURIN. WE DUG EARLY IN THE MORNING DURING TEMPERATURES OF NEARLY 80 DEGREES. THE PLANTS WERE TAKEN TO A SHADE AREA AND WATERED AGAIN. THE NEXT DAY THE CUSTOMER PICKED UP THE PLANTS, TOOK THEM DIRECTLY TO THE JOB SITE, PLANTED THEM AND HAD 100% LIVABILITY.
(DAVID W. DEVINE, PRESIDENT)
COASTAL ZONE NURSERY
First let me thank you for the samples of Moisturin you sent. I used your product on two different occasions when we made deliveries from our cool coastal climate to the hot San Fernando Valley. A total of ten trees were treated with a hose-attached sprayer at a ration of 32:1.
After deliveries were made, one tree showed severe signs of stress within one month. It is my professional opinion that your products was the reason that most trees suffered little stress, even though they were exposed to temperature differences in excess of 30 degrees for daily highs.
(Bill Long, President)
BORK NURSERIES, INC., ONARGA, IL.
JUNE 14, 1993
Burk Nurseries, Inc. has 1300 acres of BB plant material, plus 30 acres of container stock, and I have tried the Moisturin for 3 weeks.
Two weeks in May I dipped bare root plants in the Moisturin then took them to the field to be planted. They are doing well (95% take in the field).
I also used it on shade tree digging and deciduous balled and burlap shrubs. Before dipping, I spray the plants, and then dig them. After digging, I take them to a shaded area, where they are watered, then loaded in a van truck, for deliveries the next morning. The plants arrive very fresh looking with no wilting in the 3 weeks that I have been using it.
I do believe Moisturin is the finest anti-desiccant out in the market today.
(Carl E. Bork)
DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
1/22/92
This is to inform you that our proposal on "The use of Anti-desiccants (Moisturin) to improve production, quality, survival and performance of horticultural nursery plants" to the Oregon Association of Nurserymen(OAN), and the Center for Applied Agricultural Research Fund(CAAR) was recently funded for this fiscal year and possibly next year. As you are aware the results we've had to date with Moisturin on reducing water loss in may types of plants have been very good and much better than other anti-desiccants and anti-transpirants. The OAN research committee and the board members of CAAR that reviewed the proposal felt that it had great potential in helping the nursery industry of Oregon. It was the only proposal submitted via OAN that received funding from CAAR this year.
(Leslie H. Fuchigami, Professor)
CAPITAL PRESS (OSU)
AUGUST 28, 1992
NW PRODUCT THE "BEST THING SINCE MUD" TO NURSERY STOCK
Corvallis, OR - For nursery growers, a new product called Moisturin, developed by a North West firm and tested initially at Oregon State University may be the greatest invention since mud. Moisturin however is a new film coating that allows carbon dioxide and oxygen exchange, while simultaneously restricting water loss.Testing at OSU and other research centers has produced some remarkable results. "What we have found is that Moisturin-treated plants lose up to 80 percent less water than untreated plant materials" "The research has factored in desiccation stresses and tolerances, cold-hardiness and dormancy considerations. Comparison test with similar products on the market "have shown Moisturin to be a dramatic improvement" said Les Fuchigami.
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
DEPT. OF HORTICULTURE
JULY 1993
We dipped filbert cuttings in various concentrations up to 50% Moisturin. There were five replicates with 12 cuttings each in treatment. All Moisturin treatments improved the percentage of cutting having both roots and buds, with the high concentration nearly doubling the percentage.
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