The most rigorous document in the record: a signed, registration-track seed-treatment report from the All-Russian Flax Research Institute (VNIIL, Torzhok). On two flax crops — oilseed and fibre — the ultra-low-dose treatment beat both an untreated control and the standard chemical seed-treater, on germination and on early vigour, with every figure held to an LSD (НСР₀₅) significance threshold.
The study was run at the All-Russian Flax Research Institute (VNIIL, Torzhok) within Russia's registration-testing system, and signed off by the institute's plant-protection laboratory. Two crops were tested — oilseed flax (cv. LM-98) and fibre flax (cv. Lenok) — with the treatment applied in both a crystalline and a liquid form at an ultra-low dose (≈0.0001 kg/t), three times before sowing. Each was scored in moist chambers against two references at once: an untreated control and the standard chemical seed-treater, Raksil (tebuconazole).
On oilseed flax the treatment led on every measure — not only against untreated seed, but past the chemical standard too (germination energy 96.75% against the standard's 74.5%). Eight days on, the seedlings were about half again as long and as heavy as the untreated control.
Fibre flax is grown for the stem, so seedling length matters most — and here the gap was widest. Treated seedlings ran 52.2 mm against the control's 35.7 mm, with germination energy up from 60.5% to 97.5%. The liquid form tracked the crystalline one closely throughout.
A laboratory moist-chamber study — the germination and early-vigour gains are measured and statistically significant, but a lab result is not a field-yield result, and the report's own recommended next step is an open-field trial. (The original is marked confidential; figures are cited here, the document itself is not reproduced.)
Every figure here is a historical, third-party observation — not a guarantee. Run a control strip and let your own ground decide.
