George asked about its prospects, I looked at the branch tips and trunk, considered the season and its lifeless condition, pronounced it hopeless, and kept walking. The blue atlas made a miraculous recovery, and infact is now one of the handsomest in the county, if not the handsomest. The apples were sizable, and delicious. The fruit on the untreated trees never matured completely. Treated plants have a better survival rate when care is less than perfect, get off to a head start, and are reported to bear more heavily.
Plants seem to pop back real quickly after treatment, then collapse.
Some products are merely B-1. Read the label. There is no comparison. I unconditionally recommend it when doing any transplanting to stimulate the development of new roots and to reduce transplanting shock. Tina always uses it on her landscape installations when planting valuable or tender plants to protect her investment.