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What the heck is Turbo Thrive™?

Has anyone tried Turbo Thrive? There are no reviews online that google can find.

The orchid cheat? Botanic Garden mega-flower in bloom — thanks to fertilizer! • The Brooklyn Paper

All I can find is a facebook page for the product and the company site they reference there goes to a domain parking page. They do describe it as a foliar fertilizer. A google search finds it for sale only at Norman's/Orchids.com, but the pic on that site is too small to read the label.

In the Brooklyn Paper article, the BBG orchid curator seems to outright endorse the product: “The amount and quality of the flowers is more than likely from the new fertilizer,” admitted Horak.

Hmm, the trademark owner's street address is the same as that of Norman's and elsewhere I see that the company name Alva International Inc. is an aka for Norman's:

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Just going off what I can read from the label on the Norman's site photo, the NPK is 3:0:1 (am I reading that right???) and it contains ammoniacal and ureic nitrogen, potassium, sulphur, boron and molybdenum. First thought: where's the rest of it?
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The name sounds like a SuperThrive knock off. I've never heard of it but will see what I can find out about it.

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