For Plants

Rally

For the plant that's been knocked back — a reviving drench that helps it find its feet and push vigorous, composed new growth.

Rally is for the moment a plant has taken a hit. Maybe you cut it back hard and it's sulking. Maybe pests pressed it, the heat scorched it, a transplant rattled its roots, or it simply went too long between waterings while your back was turned. Whatever set it back, the plant is now in that vulnerable in-between — alive, but stalled, deciding whether to recover or decline. Rally is what you reach for there. Applied as a dilute drench at the root or a light foliar feed, it meets the plant in the recovery window and helps tip it toward the push of new growth rather than the slow slide of a plant that never quite came back.

The work is twofold. First, it wakes the root zone and feeds the living soil the plant leans on hardest when it's rebuilding — so the recovering root has an active, populated environment to draw from rather than dead dirt. Second, it leans on roots that tradition has long turned to precisely for thriving under hardship: eleuthero and rhodiola, the cold-climate adaptogens of Siberia and the high north, prized for vigor and composure when conditions turn harsh, and schizandra, the East Asian fruiting vine valued for holding a system steady under strain. These are the botanicals you want around a plant that's being asked to do a hard thing.

Rounding it out, astragalus and codonopsis bring the gentle, building root character of the East Asian tonic tradition, and a touch of ginger adds warmth that gets a sluggish, cold-stunned root zone moving again. The result is a drench that doesn't whip a stressed plant or force it — it supports the plant's own recovery machinery so the rebound, when it comes, is vigorous and composed: fresh growth, firmer footing, and a plant that looks like it decided to come back.

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$20.00/ 1 oz / 12 g

Small-batch. Dual-extracted where it matters. Made by hand.

How to take it

Dilute 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon per gallon of water. Apply as a soil drench to the root zone, or as a lighter foliar feed. Start light; the extracts are concentrated.

Whole plant, never isolated

Concentrated extracts of the whole botanical — the way the body recognizes it.

Cited to measured biology

Every action we describe traces to the compound and its measured target.

Structure & function

We describe what an herb nourishes — never a claim to treat disease.

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What you get

What this formula gives you

Supports a strong, vigorous rebound after hard pruning, transplant, pest pressure, scorch, or neglect

Adaptogenic roots favored for composure and vigor under heat, drought, and stress

Wakes a stalled root zone and feeds the beneficial soil life a recovering plant leans on

Warmth from ginger to help stir a cold, sluggish rhizosphere back into motion

A clean, water-soluble drench that supports the plant's own recovery rather than forcing it

How it works

The science of Rally

Not buzzwords — the actual biology of the plants in this formula: their compounds, the targets those compounds are measured to engage, and the systems they nourish.

The backbone of Rally is the adaptogenic root — botanicals that earned their reputation across the Siberian, high-mountain, and East Asian herbal traditions for one quality: helping a living system hold together and stay vigorous under stress. Eleuthero and rhodiola grow where conditions are brutally hard, and the constituents that armor them there — eleutherosides, rosavins, and salidroside — are the same reserves that make them the roots herbalists turn to for resilience and steady vigor. Schizandra, the East Asian five-flavor berry-vine, carries its own protective lignans and is classically prized for steadying a system under strain. Brought to a recovering plant as a dilute feed, this is structure-and-signal support for the rebound, not a forced response.

Around that core, the formula feeds the terrain the plant rebuilds from. Reishi contributes the fungal beta-glucans and polysaccharides that the beneficial microbial life of the root zone recognizes and feeds on — carbon and structural sugars that help bring a stalled rhizosphere back to active life, and patterns a plant's own surveillance is built to read. Astragalus and codonopsis add the building, tonic root character of East Asian tradition, and ginger lends warmth that helps stir a cold, sluggish root zone into motion. Taken together at dilute rates, Rally works the way good amendments work — feeding the living system beneath the plant and supplying the cues the plant uses to govern its own vigor while it finds its feet.

The molecules, measured

A formula is a community of compounds. Below are active molecules from the herbs in this blend and the proteins each is measured to engage — the precise points where the plants meet biology. So you see not just that it works, but how.

Eleuthero

Eleutherococcus senticosus

Eleutheroside B (Syringin)

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Prostaglandin G/H synthase 1

An enzyme that makes prostaglandins for everyday upkeep like protecting the stomach lining.

Bifunctional epoxide hydrolase 2

An enzyme that breaks down fatty-acid signals involved in blood vessel tone and inflammation.

Measured to act on

Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 8

The sensory channel that detects cold and the cooling feel of menthol.

Vitamin D3 receptor

The receptor through which vitamin D guides calcium balance and gene activity.

Serine/threonine-protein kinase PLK1

A signaling enzyme that helps coordinate cell division.

Rhodiola

Rhodiola rosea

Salidroside

PubChem ↗

Measured in the lab: binds tightly to Amine oxidase [flavin-containing] B · IC50 810 nM

Measured to act on

Amine oxidase [flavin-containing] B

An enzyme that breaks down messenger chemicals like dopamine in the nervous system.

Prostaglandin G/H synthase 1

An enzyme that makes prostaglandins for everyday upkeep like protecting the stomach lining.

Ribonuclease HI

An enzyme that cuts RNA when it is paired with DNA, part of normal genetic housekeeping.

Tyrosol (p-Tyrosol)

PubChem ↗

Measured in the lab: binds tightly to Beta-carbonic anhydrase 1 · Ki 850 nM

Measured to act on

Carbonic anhydrase 1

An enzyme that balances carbon dioxide and acidity, abundant in red blood cells.

Carbonic anhydrase 2

A fast enzyme that balances carbon dioxide and acidity throughout the body.

Hepatocyte growth factor receptor

A receptor that receives growth signals guiding cell movement, repair, and renewal.

Schizandra

Schisandra chinensis

Schisandrin B (Wuweizisu B)

PubChem ↗

Measured in the lab: binds very tightly to Multidrug resistance-associated protein 1 · IC50 1.25 nM

Measured to act on

Serine/threonine-protein kinase ATR

A guardian enzyme that senses DNA stress and helps coordinate repair.

Serine-protein kinase ATM

A sentinel enzyme that detects DNA breaks and signals the cell to mend them.

DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit

An enzyme that helps stitch broken DNA strands back together.

Schisandrin C (= Wuweizisu C)

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Prostaglandin G/H synthase 2

The enzyme that drives the body's inflammatory response.

Cytochrome P450 3A4

The liver's busiest enzyme for breaking down compounds the body takes in.

Cytochrome P450 3A5

A liver enzyme that helps metabolize and clear many compounds from the body.

Astragalus

Astragalus membranaceus

Formononetin

PubChem ↗

Measured in the lab: binds very tightly to Apoptosis regulator Bcl-2 · Ki 10 nM

Measured to act on

Cytochrome P450 2C9

A liver enzyme that breaks down many compounds the body takes in.

Apoptosis regulator Bcl-2

A protein that helps decide whether a cell continues living or undergoes natural turnover.

Protein deacetylase HDAC6

An enzyme that edits proteins to manage cellular cleanup and the cell internal scaffolding.

Calycosin

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

High mobility group protein B1

A protein that helps organize DNA and acts as an alarm signal during tissue stress.

Reishi

Ganoderma lucidum

Ganoderic acid A

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1

An enzyme that locally regenerates active cortisol, shaping how tissues respond to the body's stress hormone.

11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2

An enzyme that quiets cortisol inside kidney and salt-handling tissues, helping govern fluid and mineral balance.

Aldo-keto reductase family 1 member B1

An enzyme that converts glucose into sorbitol, part of how cells handle sugar.

Ganoderic acid B

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Acetylcholinesterase

The enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine, resetting nerve and muscle signals between pulses.

Cholinesterase

A blood enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine and helps clear certain compounds from circulation.

Aldo-keto reductase family 1 member B1

An enzyme that converts glucose into sorbitol, part of how cells handle sugar.

Codonopsis

Codonopsis pilosula

Syringin

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Prostaglandin G/H synthase 1

An enzyme that makes prostaglandins for everyday housekeeping like stomach lining and blood flow.

Bifunctional epoxide hydrolase 2

An enzyme that breaks down fatty-acid signals involved in blood vessel and inflammation balance.

Atractylenolide I

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Polyunsaturated fatty acid 5-lipoxygenase

An enzyme that converts fatty acids into messengers of the inflammatory response.

Prostaglandin G/H synthase 1

An enzyme that makes prostaglandins for everyday housekeeping like stomach lining and blood flow.

Cellular tumor antigen p53

A guardian protein that watches over DNA and helps cells decide when to repair or stop dividing.

Ginger

Zingiber officinale

6-Gingerol

PubChem ↗

Measured in the lab: binds to Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1 · EC50 3.3 µM

Measured to act on

Cytochrome P450 3A4

A major liver enzyme that processes a wide range of compounds the body takes in.

Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1

A repair enzyme that resolves certain DNA damage so the strand can be restored.

Cytochrome P450 2C9

A liver enzyme that helps break down and process many compounds and natural substances.

6-Shogaol

PubChem ↗

Measured in the lab: binds to Cytochrome P450 1A2 · IC50 2.5 µM

Measured to act on

Cytochrome P450 3A4

A major liver enzyme that processes a wide range of compounds the body takes in.

Cytochrome P450 2D6

A liver enzyme that processes many compounds, including some the body forms naturally.

Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1

A nerve-ending sensor that responds to heat and to the pungency of chili pepper compounds.

Measured molecular activities drawn from public scientific databases (PubChem, ChEMBL), shown as the characterized chemistry of the plants in this formula — every edge traced to its source record. This describes the molecules, not the product. Structure and function only; these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

In practice

Who it’s for, and how to use it

Who it’s for

For the grower who has a plant that's been knocked back and wants to tip it toward recovery — after a heavy trim, a rough transplant, a pest siege, a heat spell, or a stretch of neglect. It's a reach-for-it drench in the recovery window, and it pairs naturally with a steady all-season feeding program once the plant is back on its feet.

How to use it

Dilute 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon per gallon and apply as a soil drench to the root zone, or as a lighter foliar feed, through the recovery period after a setback. Always dilute and start light; the extracts are concentrated.

Measure · Dilute 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon per gallon of water. Apply as a soil drench to the root zone, or as a lighter foliar feed. Start light; the extracts are concentrated.

What’s inside

Inside is a recovery-minded gathering of roots and allies: eleuthero and rhodiola, the cold-climate adaptogens of Siberia and the high north prized for thriving under hardship; schizandra, the East Asian five-flavor vine valued for steadiness under strain; astragalus and codonopsis for their building, tonic root character; reishi for the fungal sugars that feed soil life and that a plant's own defenses recognize; and a measure of ginger for warmth at the root. They were chosen as the botanicals you want around a plant being asked to bounce back — rendered as a dilute drench for the garden.

For agricultural and horticultural use. Supports plant growth, vigor, and resilience — not a claim of any effect on human or animal health.

Pairs well with

Formulas that share Rally's botanicals

Built from overlapping herbs, these reinforce Rallyalong the same lines — the shared-botanical kinship our genome engine maps.