Atami - B'cuzz Silic Boost

A stable silicon product in a form the plant can absorb. 0.1 ml per litre of nutrient solution, which is 1 in 10,000, daily from the growth phase up until flowering. Also usable as a foliar feed.

Silicon is everywhere, and almost none of it counts

After oxygen, silicon is the most abundant element in the earth's crust. It is in sand, in glass, in practically any soil you dig into. So the question that goes with it is not whether there is silicon in your pot, because there is.

The question is whether the plant can reach it. And the answer is usually no.

Most of the silicon in soil is locked into quartz and silicate minerals: crystal lattices that barely dissolve. A root takes up nothing that is not dissolved in water, so all that silicon may as well not be there. What does count is the small fraction drifting about as dissolved silicic acid in the soil solution, and how much that is depends on your soil type, your pH and how you water.

That is the entire reason this product exists. You are not buying silicon, because you already have it. You are buying silicon in a form the root can actually take up.

On an inert substrate the story changes

In potting soil you at least still have a medium that slowly releases something, however slowly. Grow in rockwool, coco or clay pebbles and that reserve is not there: an inert substrate by definition supplies nothing. Whatever silicon is in your root zone is precisely what you put there.

That does not automatically make a silicon additive more important on inert media, but it does make the sum more honest. In soil you are topping something up. In rockwool you are supplying all of it.

What silicon does for the plant

Atami stick to what can be said: silicon strengthens the outer layer of leaf and stem, improves resistance to disease and stress, gives a firmer and thicker stem, and regulates nutrient uptake.

The thread running through that is abiotic stress: setbacks that come not from insects or fungi but from heat, drought and salt. That is also where the effect is clearest. Under calm, stable conditions you notice little from a silicon feed; it is a margin you draw on when things go wrong, not a growth accelerator you see every week.

What Atami do not publish is an analysis. No content figure and no NPK are given, so we print none.

In use

Shake well before use. Add 0.1 ml per litre of nutrient solution, a ratio of 1 in 10,000, and do so daily from the growth phase up until flowering.

That is a very dilute dose, so measure it with a syringe rather than the cap. For a ten-litre reservoir it comes to one millilitre.

Usable on any substrate, in irrigation systems, and as a foliar feed. Measure your EC and pH after everything is mixed.

Available sizes

Technical Specifications:

• Type: silicon additive, stable and in absorbable form
• Manufacturer: Atami, B'cuzz line
• Dose: 0.1 ml per litre of nutrient solution (1 in 10,000)
• Frequency: daily
• Period: from the growth phase up until flowering
• Substrate: all substrates
• Application: through the nutrient solution, in irrigation systems or as a foliar feed
• Analysis: not published by Atami
• Before use: shake well

Frequently asked questions

Is there not silicon in my soil already?
Certainly, but most of it is locked into quartz and silicate minerals that barely dissolve. A root only takes up what is dissolved in water.

Do I need it more in rockwool or coco?
An inert substrate releases nothing, so there what you give is all there is. In soil you are topping up.

How do I measure 0.1 ml?
With a syringe, not the cap. For a ten-litre reservoir it is one millilitre.

Can I spray it on the leaf?
Yes, Atami explicitly give foliar feeding alongside application through the nutrient solution.

How much silicon is in it?
Atami publish no analysis for this product, so we do not print one.