Yucca Extract Powder
A little goes a long way! Yucca is an excellent source of natural plant sugars as well as plant saponins (soaps). The saponins in Yucca make water “wetter,” breaking the polarity of the water molecule, and the plant sugars provide usable energy to plants and microbes. Read more below.
A little goes a long way! Yucca is an excellent source of natural plant sugars as well as plant saponins (soaps). The saponins in Yucca make water “wetter,” breaking the polarity of the water molecule, and the plant sugars provide usable energy to plants and microbes. Read more below.
A little goes a long way! Yucca is an excellent source of natural plant sugars as well as plant saponins (soaps). The saponins in Yucca make water “wetter,” breaking the polarity of the water molecule, and the plant sugars provide usable energy to plants and microbes. Read more below.
You don’t need to use very much of it, just a pinch. Add 1/64-1/32 tsp to a gallon of water, or 1/16 tsp for up to 5 gallons. Don’t overdo it! As with anything, too much of it can have negative effects.
When added to your nutrient solution for use in soil or soilless grow medium such as coco coir or peat, yucca improves permeability at the soil surface, as well as nutrient use efficiency at the root zone. Yucca extracts increase the dispersal of liquids, and allows for higher infiltration rates and improved soil and plant performance.
Yucca will improve the performance of any foliar spray. Water tends to bead up on waxy leaf surfaces, but yucca extracts are a natural surfactant. In other words, yucca breaks the surface tension of water molecules and allows them to spread out evenly on the surface of leaves. The more surface area the foliar spray covers, the better the absorption by the leaves. Yucca is also known as a spreader/sticker, allowing the foliar sprays to remain in contact with the leaf surface longer. So it will work well with either nutrient sprays or insecticidal sprays.
