Surfactants

Optimize your water management and avoid substrate dry out with premium wetting agents

No growing operation is exempt from the challenges of water management and substrate dry out. Even growers with top-quality irrigation programs can face problems when drying conditions hit and growing media moisture levels start to drop. By incorporating premium ICL Surfactants into your production plans and water management program, you can optimize your water use and avoid dry out.

As a commercial grower, you understand water is a precious resource—one that’s increasingly difficult to manage with shifting weather patterns seen today. Quality ICL wetting agents, designed for the horticultural mixes now in use, improve water penetration and water holding capacity of your container substrate—even severely water-repellent media.

With premium ICL wetting agents at work in your substrate, the water and nutrients are transported more efficiently and more uniformly. Water absorption is improved. Runoff and waste of water and fertilizer are minimized. Water repellency is prevented. Irrigation frequency and labor are reduced along with overall water usage.

Advanced surfactant technologies offer precision
With ICL Wetting Agents, you can fine-tune your irrigation program to exacting levels, thanks to the advanced polymer and surfactant technologies behind the results. Uniform moisture distribution creates a stronger root environment and allows even distribution of applied solutions, including fertilizers.

With the precision offered by ICL surfactants, your growing operation can reduce costly shrink, along with labor and production costs. Plants no longer struggle with dry-out-induced uptake issues. Instead, they perform better in the field, on the lot, in shipping, and at retail—and that quality and resilience carry through to consumer homes.

ICL Wetting Agents are available in liquid or granular formulations ideal for nursery container stock, greenhouse pots, CEA hydroponic programs, hanging baskets, trays, and plugs. These products can be used in conjunction with effective controlled-release fertilizer (CRF) programs and water-soluble fertilizer (WSF) regimens.

Superior surfactant performance
ICL Wetting Agents can be incorporated during substrate blending or applied at any time during production to reduce dry spots. With ICL’s H2Pro® soilless media wetting agents, whether granular or liquid, you can prevent your substrate from becoming water-repellent, enhance its rewetting ability, and optimize water and fertilizer use.

H2Pro Greenhouse and Nursery Liquid surfactant offers long residual activity designed for irrigation system applications with soilless media. By optimizing water holding capacity in soilless media, this premium surfactant allows you to decrease irrigation frequency, conserving water resources and reducing labor costs.

H2Pro Liquid can be applied alone or mixed in stock tanks along with other products and applied through an irrigation system. You can also use it in misting systems to keep fresh cuttings hydrated.

H2Pro Greenhouse and Nursery Granular can be incorporated during media blending or surface-applied to containers during production. By enhancing water holding capacity, water penetration, and distribution uniformity, this granular soilless media wetting agent optimizes labor, water, and fertilizer inputs.

Both these H2Pro premium wetting agents can also be applied prior to shipping to reduce dry-down losses during transport and in retail environments. Your customers will notice the difference in enhanced performance and resilience at retail and in landscape applications. 

Benefits of ICL Surfactants
Using ICL premium wetting agents offers your growing operation multiple benefits to maximize your investment and your results. Benefits include the following:

• Dry-down losses are reduced in production, post-production, and retail environments
• Growers can match crop cycles to longevity through rate adjustments
• Substrates retain surfactant performance even after multiple wet/dry cycles
• Surfactant retains performance even if treated media is stored prior to use
• Application flexibility extends to blending, during production, or prior to shipping
• At instructed rates, enhanced rewetting action extends through point-of-sale
• Personalized advice and support from the ICL Growing Solutions team of Local Territory Manager experts help ensure your success

With premium ICL Wettings Agents, you can improve water absorption, reduce irrigation frequency and volume, minimize runoff and waste, and reduce labor costs, too.

Contact your ICL Territory Manager for guidance and recommendations on how ICL Wetting Agents can help you improve water management, reduce water use, save on labor, and optimize nutrient inputs.