# Superthrive

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superthrive/55714>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 24, 2001, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superthrive/55714 "2001-02-24T08:48:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![falcon2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@falcon2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/falcon2)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superthrive/55714/1 "2001-02-24T08:48:13Z")

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A had heard that this superthive stuff was abolutely outstanding for stressed plants so I tripped down to the local nursery to get some. I must say I was more than a little turned off by what I found. I regularly buy Safer, Ortho, and MiracleGro products. Each of which has a fairly professional, cut and dry product description of the products benefits.  
The Superthrive bottle OTOH had a distinct As-seen-on-tv snake oil look to it.  
The front mentions a $5000 guarantee, the back has a nice “non-waratee” clause that says the producers will not be held responsible for results.

The a grammar on the bottle was very poor (worse than mine) and they claim to have been #1 for 60 years, yet I couldn’t find a similar product by another brand.

So what I’m guessing is that this junk is sugar water that is in no way worth what I payed for it.

Anyone out there think that this is not going to be the case?

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superthrive/55714/2 "2001-02-24T11:29:08Z")

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Check out this Google search, **falcon2** :  
[http://www.google.com/search?q=superthrive](http://www.google.com/search?q=superthrive)

Seems that there have been questions regarding the “snake-oil” appearence of the bottles before. But it’s been going since at least 1940, when it won a prize at the World’s Fair that year. Just dilute it very well – folks apparently swear by it.

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**Author:** ![Shiva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shiva)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superthrive/55714/3 "2001-02-24T14:15:48Z")

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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

I deal with professional greenhouse and nursery growers for a living. None of them (that I know of) are dumb enough to fall for that kind of pure hype.

Where’s the M.S.D.S.? Where’s the analysis? Where’s the university studies?

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**Author:** ![falcon2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@falcon2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/falcon2)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superthrive/55714/4 "2001-02-25T03:20:42Z")

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Hahaha. I initial tryied a search on yahoo, but that just came up with a musical band by the same name. But according to the google search, I am not the only incredulous one. Check this out:[http://carnivorous-kingdom.com/superthrive.htm](http://carnivorous-kingdom.com/superthrive.htm)