Messenger for the home and garden represents a fundamentally new approach to growing vigorous, vibrant, and healthy plants both indoors and outdoors. Now you can give every plant you grow an edge against quality and yield robbing stress brought on by destructive pests and challenging growing conditions. Messenger allows you to unlock the natural potential of plants around your home and in your garden to thrive and flourish.

Messenger is based on proprietary harpin protein technology discovered at Cornell University. Hailed as a major scientific breakthrough by the USDA, Messenger was the recipient of the EPA’s prestigious 2001 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. When applied to the foliage of plants, Messengers naturally occurring active ingredient, harpin, “tricks” plants into reacting to a perceived attack from a disease causing pathogen. Plants react by activating systems that affect stress tolerance (both environmental and pest related), plant growth and reproduction. Activating these responses while plants are healthy and prior to a pest attack or other stresses yields positive benefits in terms of growth and stress resistance.

Messenger exhibits a high degree of environmental safety. Once applied, it degrades rapidly and leaves no detectable residue on treated plants. Even edible crops can be sprayed right up to the day of harvest. Because of its essentially non-toxic nature, users can safely apply Messenger around the home without any special protective equipment, and people can safely re-enter treated areas as soon as sprays have dried. That makes Messenger a perfect product to use in sensitive areas where children and pets may play or when concerns about pesticide exposure to animals or the environment are a concern. Messenger also has a high degree of plant safety, and has never caused phyto-toxic burning on plants, even when tested experimentally at rates 100 times greater than labeled rates. Messenger simply alerts the plant to protect itself and exhibits a high degree of environmental safety with no direct effect on pests and pathogens. Messenger is easy to use and hard to abuse.