Page Contents:

• What is EPIN
• EPIN facts and actions
• History of use
• Formulation and Application
• Dosage
• Storage
• Chemistry
• Toxicology and Ecology
• Additional Info

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See also: Cirkon, Ferovit
Using Cirkon and Epin in rotation will greatly increase the results.

A Foreword from TopTropicals

Our first experience with EPIN occurred when our friend Galiya gave us couple vials of it to treat stressed plants that we received from a delayed shipping. We didn't believe in magic and were quite surprised when after a single treatment they all survived, although we gave up right away. After keeping the plants for a week in shade, drooping leaves went juicy again and we got recovered and developing plants. EPIN really saved them.

Our customers from Russia where we export our tropical plants also expressed their trust in EPIN, so as a the next step we tried to use it on plants before putting them in boxes for shipment to Russia. Surprisingly, the whole shipment arrived greener and healthier than before in spite of usual delay with the Russian Customs - it took 8 days! In the previous shipments we had a relatively high percentage of plant loss, and with this one they were 100% alive and healthy!

Since then we use Epin on regular basis on weak or stressed plants, for rooting cuttings and germination seeds, for treatments before long shipments and of course on all plants that arrive to us bare-rooted.

We couldn't find any source of this wonderful plant hormone and at the beginning Galiya was our only "supplier" since she brought some with her from Russia where it was manufactured and widely used. Our experience encouraged us to get this Magic Hormone into the US market so other plant enthusiasts can enjoy the wonderful results. Now EPIN is available from our Online Store!

This product is developed, manufactured and patented by the Russian scientific company Nest-M (Author N. Malevannaya).

What is EPIN?

EPIN (official name EPIN-extra™) is a natural plant growth hormone and the first representative of a new generation of agricultural chemicals. EPIN has a broad spectrum of stimulative and protective activities. Synthetically prepared epibrassinolide, active ingredient of EPIN, belongs to a class of brassinosteroids and is identical in all respects to naturally occurring plant hormone.

EPIN will help your plants:

Great for indoor plants!

To the best of our knowledge, EPIN is not available for sale anywhere else in the US
WE HAVE IT!

• active ingredient: brassinosteroid (24-epibrassinolide)
• acts in extremely low doses, which are comparable with the natural content of epibrassinolide in plant
• ecologically safe, nontoxic in relation to human, pets, useful insects and fish
• the compatibility of EPIN with other agricultural chemicals allows it to us along with other treatments

• enhances the immunity of the plant
• enhances plant resistance to pesticide injury and diseases
• enhances plant resistance to stresses and unfavorable conditions such as drought, cold, low light, low humidity, high salinity, chill, insufficient nutrients
• increases quality of fruit, promotes fruit setting and increases the fruit weight
• enhances flowering profusion
• improves tuber formation

• stimulates physiological processes in plants
• promotes the growth of plant (all parts)
• shortens the period for maturity
• stimulates root development of cuttings
• promotes seed germination, increases germination rate
• promotes new roots and healing of damaged roots on bare-rooted plants

• effective post-transportation treatment to help plants to recover from shipping stress
• diminishes disease injury
• induces hermaphrodite flower and female flower
• makes leaves look healthy and shiny
• makes flowers bigger
• can inhibit aging
• can break dormancy
• gives more chances to bring a plant back to life within hours/days

The first brassinosteroid was isolated in the end 1970 in the US from bee-collected pollen of Yellow Turnip (Brassica napus). Today many brassinosteroids have been isolated from different plants and more then twenty-years or research proved importance of this naturally-occured hormones for plant growth and develepment.

Unfortunaly, pollen contains very small amount of brassinosteroids, almost 100 lb of pollen is required to produce 5 mg of the hormone. That's why a chemical synthesis is the only way to produce it.

1 vial contains
1 mg of EPIN concentrate
Re-sealable cap

Formulation is stable in neutral and mild acidic conditions. Dilute EPIN concentrate in DISTILLED water only, according to the table below. Do not use tap water, drinking or natural spring water. Distilled water can be purchased in any Pharmacy, Grocery or Department store for about $0.99 per gallon. Try to avoid mixing it with any other chemicals and fertilizer.

You can use it for soaking (seeds, bulbs, cuttings) or foliar spray. See table below for possible applications. Better results are obtained when young plants are treated.

Plants should be evenly sprayed in clear windless day, seeds should be soaked during 4-24 hours. Usual types of sprayers can be used, but if they were used previously with others chemicals, they must be washed with fresh water.

• prepare solution right before use
• avoid mixing it with pesticides
• do not spray if rain is expected. Re-spray if it rains within 12 hour of spraying
• all solution should be used the same day. Do not keep solution.