Essentials is another seaweed extract that concentrates the best features of seaweed as a fertilizer enhancement. It is a concentration of many beneficial additives for plants. Its most noticeable ingredient is gibberelic acid. This is a rooting hormone that greatly increases root growth in plants. It also tends to generate keiki growth. Unlike the other rooting hormones IAB and NNC, which are inorganic and do not dissolve well in water, Essentials is liquid in nature. It will not burn roots if over dosed.