Emerald Harvest Kick-Starter Kit 3-Part Base 1 qt

The Emerald Harvest Kick-Starter Kit 3-Part Base (1 qt) is a low-risk trial pack of the Emerald Harvest nutrient line. It contains quart bottles of the GROW, MICRO, and BLOOM three-part base nutrients plus sample sizes of four top-selling supplements: King Kola bloom booster, Emerald Goddess plant tonic, Honey Chome aroma and resin enricher, and Root Wizard root builder. Designed for growers evaluating Emerald Harvest before committing to the full feed program.

Emerald Harvest Kick-Starter Kit Specifications

Specifications below are sourced from the canonical product record, the Grow Wiser supplier listing (SKU EMHKSK3PBQ, GTIN 859041005488), and Emerald Harvest published product data.

Why Choose the Emerald Harvest Kick-Starter Kit

The Kick-Starter Kit is purpose-built for growers who want to try the Emerald Harvest line without buying every product at full size. Each item in the box reflects a specific role in the Emerald Harvest feed program, and the kit gives you enough volume to run at least one complete grow cycle on a small reservoir before deciding whether to scale up.

• Full quart sizes of the three base nutrients. The kit includes 1-quart bottles of GROW, MICRO, and BLOOM — not sample sizes. Quart bottles are enough for a full vegetative and bloom cycle on a small hydroponic or container garden, so you can evaluate plant response on real grow data rather than a one-week trial.
• Four supplement samples that cover the entire Emerald Harvest stack. King Kola (bloom booster), Emerald Goddess (broad-spectrum plant tonic), Honey Chome (aroma and resin enricher), and Root Wizard (root mass builder) are Emerald Harvest’s top-selling additives. Including all four as samples lets you test the complete feed program rather than just the base, which is the more honest evaluation of how the line performs.
• Lower switching risk when changing nutrient brands. Brand switches are stressful: a grower may have a working program with another line and not want to risk a full crop on an unfamiliar nutrient. The kit’s quart-sized base and supplement samples reduce the financial and crop-risk cost of running a side-by-side trial against an existing program.
• Three-part flexibility. Emerald Harvest’s three-part Grow/Micro/Bloom base lets growers adjust the ratio between vegetative growth and flowering inputs at each stage rather than relying on a one-bottle "all stages" product. Three-part programs are the standard for growers who want precise control over feed composition and EC across the grow cycle.
• Designed and manufactured in the USA. Emerald Harvest is a US-based hydroponic nutrient manufacturer; all products in the Kick-Starter Kit are formulated and bottled domestically. For growers who prioritize sourcing from a single-country supply chain, that is a meaningful differentiator from globally sourced brands.
• Single SKU, single shipment. Buying the kit ships as one box with one tracking number rather than seven separate items. For growers comparing multiple programs, that reduces the operational overhead of placing several individual orders.

Best Uses for the Emerald Harvest Kick-Starter Kit

The Kick-Starter Kit is best treated as a one-cycle trial pack. The use cases below reflect the situations where a quart-bottle base plus four sample supplements gives the most useful information per dollar spent.

• Evaluating a brand switch before committing to a full feed program. The most common reason to buy this kit is to test Emerald Harvest against an incumbent nutrient line. Run the kit on a representative subset of your plants — one tray, one tent zone, or a small reservoir — and compare growth metrics (height, internodal spacing, leaf color, flower density, dry weight) against your current line. The quart base bottles cover a full veg-and-flower cycle on a small system, which produces a fairer comparison than a one-week sample run.
• Small home grows and single-tent setups. For a 2×2, 2×4, or 3×3 grow tent with one or two plants, the quart sizes are practical working volumes — not so small that you run out mid-cycle, and not so large that the bottles sit in storage degrading between grows. Pair the base nutrients with one or two of your favorite Emerald Harvest Cal-Mag bottles if you are running RO water or a high-bloom feeding program that depletes secondary nutrients.
• Educational, demonstration, and pilot grows. Indoor grow consultants, vertical farming students, and commercial growers running a small pilot batch can use the kit to standardize a feeding program for a controlled experiment. Knowing that base and supplements are matched-set bottles from the same manufacturer eliminates a source of variability when evaluating other inputs (lighting, media, environment).
• Building familiarity with the Emerald Harvest feeding chart. The kit’s combination of base nutrients and supplement samples lets you run the Emerald Harvest feeding chart end-to-end at least once before deciding which supplements you want to standardize on. If the goal of your trial is to identify which supplements actually move the needle on your crop, having all four samples is more informative than picking one or two. After the trial, growers commonly upgrade to gallon or 2.5-gal sizes of just the supplements that produced measurable results — for example, the standalone Emerald Harvest King Kola or a larger size of Root Wizard.
• Backup or travel-sized program for established growers. Growers already running Emerald Harvest at gallon or 2.5-gal sizes sometimes keep a Kick-Starter Kit on hand as a backup, or to use during off-site trips when bringing full-size jugs is impractical. The quart format is also useful for cloning and propagation areas where the base reservoir is small and a 2.5-gal jug would sit unused for months.

Kick-Starter Kit vs Buying Components Individually

The most direct comparison for the Kick-Starter Kit is not a competitor product — it is the alternative of buying the same Emerald Harvest items separately at their standalone prices. The table below outlines the practical differences.

The kit is the right purchase when the goal is information: figuring out whether the Emerald Harvest base and supplement stack works for your crop, water source, and growing style. Once that decision is made, the economics tip toward buying the specific products you intend to keep using in larger sizes. The Kick-Starter Kit is not designed to be a long-term feeding solution — it is a structured trial pack that lets you make a buying decision on real data rather than on marketing claims.

Compatibility

The Emerald Harvest base nutrients in the Kick-Starter Kit are designed to work across the standard set of growing systems, media, and water sources used in indoor and greenhouse cultivation. The notes below cover the situations growers most often ask about before introducing a new nutrient line.

• Growing systems: Compatible with hydroponic systems (DWC, NFT, ebb and flow, drip, aeroponics), coco coir setups, and soil-based grows. The three-part liquid base format is the standard for recirculating reservoir applications and dose easily into drain-to-waste schedules as well.
• Water sources: The kit’s base and supplements work with reverse osmosis (RO) water, tap water, and well water. If you are running RO or low-EC source water, you may benefit from adding a calcium-magnesium supplement separately — see Emerald Harvest Cal-Mag (quart) for the matching addition from the same brand line. Tap and well water sources typically supply enough background Ca and Mg that supplemental cal-mag is optional.
• Reservoir temperature and pH: Standard hydroponic operating ranges apply — reservoir water between 65 and 72°F (18–22°C) and pH between 5.8 and 6.2 for most crops. Emerald Harvest’s three-part base is formulated for this range; mixing outside it will not damage the nutrients but may reduce plant uptake efficiency.
• Mixing order: When combining the three base nutrients into a reservoir, the standard order is MICRO first, then GROW (during veg) or BLOOM (during flower), each fully dissolved into the water before the next is added. Adding all three concurrently can cause precipitation of calcium and phosphate compounds at high concentrations. This is true for almost all three-part base nutrient lines, not just Emerald Harvest.
• Use with other supplement brands: The Emerald Harvest base nutrients can be combined with supplements from other brands, but the supplement samples included in the kit (King Kola, Emerald Goddess, Honey Chome, Root Wizard) are pH and chemistry-matched to the Emerald Harvest base. For a fair evaluation of the Emerald Harvest line itself, run the trial with the in-kit supplements rather than substituting cross-brand additives that introduce a second variable.
• Crops: The base feed program is formulated for fast-growing annual crops including leafy greens, herbs, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and floral crops. Slow-growing perennials and specialty crops may require feed rate adjustments outside the standard chart.
• System size: The quart bottles are practical for reservoirs up to roughly 20–30 gallons on a per-fill basis. Larger reservoirs or multi-tent commercial operations will exhaust the kit within a single fill cycle and should plan to move to gallon or 2.5-gal standalone bottles after the trial.

Usage Guidelines

The Kick-Starter Kit is dosed using the standard Emerald Harvest three-part feed chart. The base nutrients (Grow, Micro, Bloom) are added at different ratios depending on the growth stage, and the four supplement samples slot into specific weeks of the cycle. Always consult the manufacturer’s current feeding chart at emeraldharvest.co for crop-specific dose rates; the general framework below summarizes how each component is intended to be used.

Always check EC and pH after mixing. Three-part base programs produce a target EC that depends on growth stage, crop, and water source. Use a calibrated EC meter and pH meter to verify the reservoir is in range before the feed cycle begins. Standard hydroponic targets: pH 5.8–6.2; EC depends on stage (lower for early veg, higher for mid-bloom).

Sample sizes: The four supplement bottles in the kit are sample-sized — intended for one trial cycle on a small system. If a supplement produces measurable results in your trial, plan to order it standalone in quart, gallon, or 2.5-gal size for your ongoing program. The kit is not designed to provide indefinite supplement coverage.

How to Use the Kick-Starter Kit for a First-Time Trial

The kit is most informative when used as a structured trial rather than as a casual top-up. The steps below describe how to run a fair evaluation of the Emerald Harvest line so that the buying decision at the end of the cycle is based on real performance data.

1. Define the trial scope before mixing anything. Decide whether you are running the kit on your full grow or on a sub-section (one tent, one tray, one reservoir). For a head-to-head against an existing program, dedicate an equal-size and equal-genetics group of plants to each program so the comparison is meaningful.
2. Download the current Emerald Harvest feeding chart. Pull the latest official feeding chart from emeraldharvest.co for the crop type and growth medium you are running. The chart specifies mL/gal rates for each base nutrient and each supplement at every week of the cycle. Do not estimate dose rates — use the published chart.
3. Prepare clean reservoir water at the target temperature. Use clean water (RO or filtered tap, off-gassed if it has chlorine), pre-warmed to 65–72°F. Starting from clean known-temperature water removes a confounding variable from the trial.
4. Add MICRO first. Measure the MICRO dose per the feeding chart and stir it into the reservoir until fully dissolved. MICRO contains the calcium and trace minerals; it is added first because the calcium reacts with phosphate at high concentrations and needs to be fully diluted before BLOOM (which contains phosphate) is added.
5. Add GROW (veg) or BLOOM (flower). Add the appropriate macronutrient base after MICRO is fully dissolved. During vegetative weeks, use a higher Grow-to-Bloom ratio; during flowering weeks, use a higher Bloom-to-Grow ratio. Follow the feeding chart for stage-specific ratios.
6. Add supplements one at a time. The Root Wizard sample goes in at transplant and during the first weeks of veg. Emerald Goddess goes in at low rates throughout the cycle. King Kola is added during mid-flowering. Honey Chome is added during late flowering before flush. Add each supplement after the base is fully mixed.
7. Verify pH and EC. After all inputs are added, measure pH (target 5.8–6.2) and EC (target depends on stage). Adjust pH only after all nutrients are in the reservoir; pH-adjusting earlier in the mixing sequence can give a misleading reading.
8. Record baseline data. Photograph the plants and record key measurements (height, internodal spacing, leaf count, leaf color) at the start of the trial. Repeat measurements weekly so that the end-of-cycle comparison against your existing program is data-driven.
9. Run the full cycle. Use the kit for the entire vegetative and flowering cycle on the trial plants. Do not switch back to the previous nutrient line mid-cycle — that produces uninterpretable results.
10. Evaluate after harvest. Compare dry weight, plant structure, flower quality, and any crop-specific quality metrics (aroma, flavor, resin) against the equivalent run on your previous program. Use the evaluation to decide whether to (a) move fully to Emerald Harvest at gallon or 2.5-gal sizes, (b) adopt only specific supplements, or (c) stay with your existing line.

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