Water-saving microbial INOCULANT
Quench is a liquid microbial inoculant that keeps crops producing under drought. The two plant growth promoting bacteria were selected for their ability to support crop growth via osmotic adjustment and improved nutrient uptake under reduced irrigation conditions across a wide range of crops.
Quench helps plants hold water and hold yield when water gets scarce.
A look at what's below
01 - WHAT IT DOES
It helps plants hold hydration and keep turgor through drought.
primary mechanism
Osmotic adjustment
Helps plants retain hydration and hold turgor under reduced irrigation by regulating the balance of sugars and salts inside plant cells.
stress tolerance
Stays functional longer
Helps crops stay green and productive through dry stretches.
BELOW GROUND
Expanding root system
The consortium maintains root architecture, increasing surface area available for absorption.
nutrition
Maintaining nutrient flow
Even when water movement slows, the microbes keep transforming nutrients into plant-available forms.
02 - why it matters
Drought isn't just a lack of water.
For a crop, it's also a physiological imbalance: nutrient uptake, photosynthesis, growth, and regulation of stress responses all fall out of step. In addition to water absence, drought-like osmotic stresses come from other factors (like water quality and heat) and all put more pressure on water plants actually have available and how they can use it.
Quench was born from the question: When the water supply is limited and there is nothing you can do about it, how can we help crops preserve function with less?
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.
Microbes are often discovered in labs under ideal conditions. This often has the unintended side effect of selecting for organisms that grow fast in comfortable conditions, but not those that hold up under environmental stress.
So, instead, we built a system where we allowed the environment to choose the best plant beneficial organisms. For Quench discovery, irrigation was reduced, and we tested performance of different species across variable crops and conditions, season after season.
A candidate only advanced if it stayed functionally engaged while crops were under real water stress and that engagement showed up as yield. Most candidate organisms didn't meet this bar. But the organisms in Quench did, and they do complementary jobs.
04 - 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
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
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 selected for organisms under real water stress, and kept only the ones whose engagement showed up as yield.
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.