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For Plants

Recovery

For the plant that has just been moved, divided, or disturbed — a steadying hand through the shock, and a gentle return to vigorous growth.

A transplant is a kind of crisis. When you lift a plant from its bed, repot it, divide a clump, or simply handle it roughly, you tear fine feeder roots, break the quiet conversation between root and soil, and ask the plant to drink and stand upright before it has the plumbing to do either. The leaves wilt, growth stalls, and the plant sits in a sulk that can last days or weeks. Recovery is built for exactly that window — the disturbed, freshly-moved plant that needs to settle, hold its water, defend its open wounds, and find its feet again.

Used as a dilute foliar feed or soil drench, Recovery brings five convergent botanicals to bear on the root zone and the leaf at once. It is not a fertilizer and it is not a rescue gimmick — it is a steadying botanical feed that supports the plant's own recovery machinery: the structural integrity of new root tissue, the moisture-holding and mineral balance the plant leans on while its roots regrow, and the resilience it needs to shrug off the oxidative and microbial stress that crowds in around fresh wounds and disturbed soil.

Think of it as the difference between a plant that limps through transplant and one that barely notices it. The aim is a short shock, a quick re-rooting, and an early return to the steady, vigorous push of new growth — so the move becomes a pause rather than a setback.

It belongs to the GGG Plants line: the same lineage of plant wisdom we carry for people and animals, turned toward the garden bed, the propagation tray, and the pot on the windowsill.

For Plants

$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. Foliar feed at the lighter rate, or soil drench at the fuller rate, about once a month or every other feeding.

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What you get

What this formula gives you

Eases plants through transplant, repotting, and division shock so the setback is short and the rebound is quick

Supports the structural integrity of new root and shoot tissue rather than forcing soft, unsupported top growth

Helps the root zone hold moisture and mineral balance through the vulnerable days after a move, drawing on sea moss's water-binding polysaccharides

Supports a clean, resilient root environment around fresh wounds and freshly disturbed soil

Builds the plant's own stress resilience so it settles instead of sulking

Works as either a foliar feed or a soil drench, fitting whatever the plant in front of you needs

How it works

The science of Recovery

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 work of recovery is, at bottom, the work of regrowing roots and protecting them while they form. Atlantic Irish sea moss is the structural backbone of this formula. It is dense in sulfated polysaccharides — galactose and anhydrogalactose chains, including galactose-6-sulfate — the same gel-forming, water-binding carbohydrates that make sea moss a hydrocolloid. In the root zone these act as a moisture buffer and a soil conditioner, holding water around stressed roots and feeding the mineral matrix the plant draws on while its feeder roots are too few to keep up. Sea moss carries a broad spectrum of minerals as building blocks, supporting the structural integrity of new tissue rather than force-feeding a flush of soft top growth the plant cannot yet support.

Reishi and rhodiola bring the resilience current. Reishi's ganoderic acids and its rich polysaccharide fraction are associated with antioxidant activity and microbial defense — relevant to a disturbed root system sitting in freshly opened soil. Rhodiola contributes salidroside and the rosavins, the adaptogenic compounds that define it; in measured screens salidroside touches oxidative-stress-related enzymes, the kind of cellular housekeeping a plant under transplant stress relies on to settle. Together they support the plant's capacity to hold steady through the disturbance instead of spiraling into a long sulk.

Ginger and licorice complete the picture at the soil interface. Ginger's gingerols are warming, circulation-friendly aromatics with a long record of antimicrobial and antifungal character — useful around the damp, vulnerable root zone of a fresh transplant where soil-borne opportunists gather. Licorice contributes glycyrrhizin and 18-beta-glycyrrhetinic acid, surfactant-like saponins that help a dilute drench wet and spread evenly and that carry their own antimicrobial reputation. None of this treats a plant disease — it is structure and function: a feed that supports moisture balance, tissue integrity, and a clean, resilient root zone while the plant does the regrowing itself.

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.

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.

Rhodiola

Rhodiola rosea

Salidroside

PubChem ↗

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 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.

Ginger

Zingiber officinale

6-Gingerol

PubChem ↗

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 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.

Atlantic Irish Sea Moss

Chondrus crispus

Measured to act on

Proton-coupled amino acid transporter 1

A transporter that carries amino acids into cells alongside acidity-balancing protons.

D-Mannose (genus-associated sugar; included only to carry its verified ChEMBL target, not asserted as the headline Chondrus carrageenan unit)

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Type 1 fimbrin D-mannose specific adhesin

A bacterial surface protein that grips sugar molecules to attach to host surfaces.

Licorice

Glycyrrhiza glabra

18beta-Glycyrrhetinic acid (enoxolone)

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1

An enzyme in tissues like fat and liver that activates the stress hormone cortisol.

11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2

A kidney enzyme that switches off cortisol, helping the body manage salt and fluid balance.

Protein kinase C eta type

A signaling enzyme involved in skin cell growth and how cells respond to their environment.

Liquiritigenin

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Estrogen receptor beta

A receptor that reads the hormone estrogen, helping govern reproductive and other tissues.

Tubulin

The building-block protein of the internal scaffolding that gives cells shape and moves their parts.

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 any gardener, grower, or houseplant keeper in the act of moving plants — transplanting seedlings into the bed, potting up or repotting, dividing perennials, taking and settling cuttings, or nursing a plant that has been knocked about, root-disturbed, or stressed by handling. Reach for it at the moment of the move and through the recovery window that follows, on anything from a propagation tray to a mature specimen in a large pot.

How to use it

Dilute 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon per gallon of water. Use the lighter rate as a foliar feed, misting the leaves, or the fuller rate as a soil drench poured into the root zone. Apply about once a month, or on every other feeding, beginning at the time of transplant and continuing through the recovery window. As with any dilute botanical feed, start at the lighter rate on tender seedlings and young plants and build up as they establish.

Measure · Dilute 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon per gallon of water. Foliar feed at the lighter rate, or soil drench at the fuller rate, about once a month or every other feeding.

What’s inside

Inside: a one-to-one combination of reishi, rhodiola, ginger, Atlantic Irish sea moss, and licorice — five convergent botanicals chosen for the way they meet at the root zone of a freshly moved plant. Sea moss for moisture and minerals, reishi and rhodiola for resilience, ginger and licorice for a clean, well-wetted soil interface. Nothing more, no filler. 1 oz / 12 g.

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