Water-saving microbial INOCULANT
Quench is a microbial inoculant that helps crops grow more with less water. It contains two plant growth-promoting bacteria selected for their ability to help crops uptake and retain water so they get the most out of every drop.
Currently only available in Colorado.
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WHAT IT DOES
Draw more water and maintain turgor when irrigation limited.
What you get
Early pricing, first in line for trials.
what we need
Take two minutes to tell us how water limits you.
01 - WHAT IT DOES
Quench helps plants stay hydrated and keep turgor through drought.
water holding capacity
Efficient hydration
Quench helps plants draw water from drier soil and stay turgid as soil moisture declines.
stress tolerance
Stays functional longer
Quench helps plants stay hydrated and productive through dry stretches.
BELOW GROUND
Expanding root system
The microbes in Quench increases root growth, increasing surface area available for water absorption.
nutrition
Maintaining nutrient flow
Even when water movement slows, the microbes in Quench keep transforming nutrients into plant-available forms.
quench was born from a question:
When the water supply is limited,
how can we help crops preserve function with less?
02 - why it matters
Drought isn't just a lack of water.
Drought is a physiological imbalance inside the crop – which is exactly why microbes will address it.
For a crop, drought is a distruption of photosynthesis, nutrient uptake, growth, and the regulation of stress responses all at once. In addition to water absence, water quality and heat put more pressure on the water the crop has available and how the crop can use it.
That's the work Quench supports. Its microbes help the crop use the water it has more efficiently - the same resource, going further.
drought at the cellular level
Photosynthesis declines
Stomata close to conserve water, and carbon fixation slows.
Nutrient transport slows
Water movement through the plant is disrupted, so nutrients stop arriving where they need to go.
Growth is sacrificed
The plant reallocates resources toward basic survival.
Oxidative stress sets in
Damage accumulates in cellular structures, and recovery gets more expensive.
03 - HOW WE MADE quench
We let the environment decide.
We screened ~20,000 strains and let the environment show us which microorganisms belonged in Quench.
We built a system where we allowed the environment to choose the best plant beneficial organisms for drought conditions. For Quench discovery, irrigation was reduced, and we tested performance of different species across variable crops and conditions, season after season, for five years.
A candidate only advanced if it stayed functionally engaged while crops were under real drought stress and that engagement showed up as yield. Most candidate organisms didn't meet this bar. The organisms in Quench did.
04 - FIELD RESULTS
Better results with and without drought.
Tomato at 45%, 66% and 100% of grower standard irrigation (GSI)
Marketable fruit (#/plant)
At all irrigation levels, treated plants produced more marketable fruit.
download full trial report →Bell pepper at 61%, 80%, and 100% of GSI
Marketable fruit (lb/plant)
At 61% irrigation, Quench raised marketable yield by 60%.
download full trial report →Cantaloupe at 50%, 75%, and 100% of GSI
Marketable Fruit Yield (kg/plant)
Quench-treated cantaloupe out-yielded untreated plants at every irrigation rate, and nearly doubled marketable yield at full irrigation.
download full trial report →Turfgrass under water limitation.
Mean visual quality evaluations based on a 1-9 rating scale
Treated turf rated higher on every quality measure.
05 - join the waitlist
Get in line!
Join the waitlist and we'll contact you with launch timing, pricing, and regional availability; and: a limited number of pre-launch trial partners will be selected from this list.
- Launch notifications and early pricing
- Trial partner consideration for the coming season
- Full trial data packets for your crop
06 - SURVEY
Tell us how water shapes your season.
Two minutes. Your answers help shape what we do next and go straight to our research team, not a marketing list.
~2 minutes - anonymous option
too long, didn't read
The short version:
01
Drought hits your bottom line as a physiological failure — and more water isn't an option you always have.
02
We screened ~20,000 strains to find two plant growth promoting bacteria that help crops extract and hold water — improving water use efficiency under reduced irrigation.
03
In turf, melon, tomato, and pepper trials, crops treated with Quench™ held more water and produced more marketable yield — at reduced irrigation and at full.