ReTain® Plant Growth Regulator Soluble Powder
PGRS AND PROTECTANTS
RETAIN® CONTROL BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER HARVEST.
With ReTain® Plant Growth Regulator Soluble Powder, growers can delay fruit drop, extending the harvest window by up to four weeks. This improves picking flexibility and labor management, while also increasing overall fruit quality and marketability. ReTain also delivers post-harvest benefits such as maintaining fruit firmness, reducing storage disorders like greasiness, and increasing packout rates in fruit stored long-term.
PGRS AND PROTECTANTS
Extend Apple and Cherry Bloom. Boost Fruit Set.
ReTain® Plant Growth Regulator Soluble Powder extends flower viability in apples and cherries to increase fruit set and help ensure an optimum crop load potential. Use ReTain at early bloom in advance of poor pollinating conditions (cool, wet weather, winds, low bee activity) or on varieties with low natural fruit set.
With ReTain® Plant Growth Regulator Soluble Powder, growers can delay fruit drop, extending the harvest window up to four weeks. This improves picking flexibility and labor management, while also increasing overall fruit quality and marketability. ReTain also delivers post-harvest benefits such as maintaining fruit firmness, reducing storage disorders like greasiness, and increasing packout rates in fruit stored long-term.
For cherries, ReTain increases fruit set to help ensure an optimum crop load potential.
- Delays Maturation and Extends Harvest Window
- Provides More Flexibility with Labor Management
- Extends Drop Control
- Maintains Late-Season Fruit Quality
- For Cherries, Extends Flower Viability for Enhanced Fruit Set
Problems/Uses*
- Harvest Management; Delays Drop; Optimizes Fruit Maturity and Quality; Maintains Post-Harvest Fruit Quality; Enhances Fruit Set
Key Crops*
- Apple
- Apricot
- Aprium
- Cherry
- Bing Cherry
- Chelan Cherry
- Early Robin Cherry
- Regina Cherry
- Skeena Cherry
- Sweet Cherry
- Tieton Cherry
- Cucumber
- Nectarine
- Peach
- Pear
- Pecan
- Pineapple
- Plum
- Plumcot
- Pluot
- Prune
- Walnut
* Not all crops are registered in every state.
2EE
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Retain Plant Growth Regulator 2EE Applicable States: WA
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Retain Plant Growth Regulator 2EE Applicable States: CT, DE, ME, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NC, PA, RI, VT, VA, WV
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Retain Plant Growth Regulator 2EE Applicable States: NY
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Retain Plant Growth Regulator 2EE Applicable States: ID, MT, OR, UT, WA
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Retain Plant Growth Regulator 2EE Applicable States: IN, MI, OH, WI
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Retain Plant Growth Regulator 2EE Applicable States: TX
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Retain Plant Growth Regulator 2EE Applicable States: WA
Supplemental Label
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Retain Plant Growth Regulator Supplemental Label Applicable States: HI
Label
SDS
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Cherries Quicksheet - ReTain Plant Growth Regulator 2024-RET-8010
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Pears Quicksheet - ReTain Plant Growth Regulator 2023-RET-8015
Sustainable Solutions Criteria – ReTain® Plant Growth Regulator Soluble Powder
Valent U.S.A. has developed a classification system that defines and identifies sustainable practices and attributes applicable to our ag product portfolio across three pillars of sustainability – People, Planet, and Productivity. This system, called Sustainable Solutions Criteria, uses specific icons that highlight these key sustainable practices and attributes for our products. Products that achieve a high sustainable criterion ranking across all three sustainable pillars, such as ReTain® Plant Growth Regulator Soluble Powder, are also denoted by the Sustainable Solutions Icon. Click on the icons below or the sustainable solutions icon to the right to learn how ReTain® Plant Growth Regulator Soluble Powder can support sustainable practices in your operations.
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