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NutriCharge TriPhase 2.5 gallon jug

The phosphorus
you need is already
under your feet.

You have spent years building a phosphorus reserve your crop cannot reach. TriPhase™ frees that locked-up soil phosphorus and holds it available — so you can draw down what you already own instead of buying more.

75%
Of corn's P uptake happens after V10
1→2½
One treated gallon performs like two to two and a half
8 oz/ac
At sidedress — or 0.5 gal/ton on dry fertilizer
Replace
Built to reduce your P rate, not add to it
Start here

Your soil test shows a sliver.
The rest is still down there.

A soil test measures only the small pool of readily available phosphate. The vast majority of the phosphorus in your ground is locked into mineral and organic forms your crop simply cannot get at — including hydroxyapatite, which a soil test never sees.

What the crop can reach Locked in the soil bank

You already paid for it. Every year you applied more phosphorus than the crop removed, the difference went into that bank. TriPhase is built to make a withdrawal — which is why it is designed to replace part of your rate, not sit on top of it.

One technology · two chemistries · three phases

Release.
Capture.
Hold.

TriPhase isn't an additive. It carries two proprietary chemistries working as one circuit — one to free the phosphorus, one to keep it free long enough for the crop to use it.

Phase 01 · Release

Frees the P your soil is holding

Charge-release chemistry dissolves phosphate bound in soil minerals — the reserve that has been building in your field for years and never showed up on a soil test.

Phase 02 · Capture

Switches on the plant's own uptake

Builds bigger roots and turns on the plant's natural phosphorus pumps and fungal partners — so the crop can actually go and get what's been freed.

Phase 03 · Hold

NutriCharge® keeps it available

Freed phosphate wants to re-fix immediately. Patented charge-control chemistry holds it plant-available for months — through peak uptake and into grain fill.

Release without hold is a waste of time. Anything that frees soil phosphorus and then leaves it exposed just hands it straight back to the calcium, iron and aluminum that locked it up in the first place. The second chemistry is what makes the first one pay.

The second chance

Most of the crop's demand
is still ahead of you at V10.

By the time corn hits V10 it has taken up only a fraction of the phosphorus it needs — and soil-available P is at its lowest point of the season. That is the window TriPhase is built for. Drag your program in and see what a sidedress application is working with.

Crop needs this season77 lb
Still needed after V1058 lb
Your starter covers30 lb
In the soil bank, per acre~1,120 lb
Gap the soil has to make up47 lb

Illustrative planning tool. Corn removal at 0.35 lb P₂O₅/bu (Tri-State 2020); roughly 75% of uptake occurs after V10. Soil bank estimate from total soil P in the top six inches — the fraction a soil test does not measure. Confirm all figures with your agronomist.

How growers run it

Fits the pass
you already make.

How to use itWhat it does
At sidedressThe primary use. Frees and holds soil phosphorus right as your crop's demand peaks — no new pass, it rides your nitrogen application.
On dry fertilizerCoated onto the dry blend at 0.5 gallons per ton at the plant or retailer — the granule goes out treated, same rate, same pass.
With your starterRun a lower starter rate and let TriPhase double what is actually available. One treated gallon performs like two to two and a half untreated.
In your programWorks into what you already run. No new equipment, no new pass, no new tank.
Rate philosophyDesigned to replace part of the traditional P rate by mining reserves already in the field — not to add another input on top.
1→2½

Every gallon stretches

One gallon of treated starter performs like two to two and a half gallons untreated.

V10→R

The window it's built for

Sidedress delivers phosphorus right at peak uptake — a late start needn't cost the season.

6 mo

Held, not just released

Charge control keeps freed phosphate plant-available for months rather than days.

Questions we get

Straight answers.

Is TriPhase a fertilizer?
No — and that is the point. It contains no meaningful phosphorus of its own. It works on the phosphorus already in your soil: freeing it, helping the plant take it up, and keeping it available long enough to matter.
Can I put it on dry fertilizer?
Yes. TriPhase coats dry fertilizer at 0.5 gallons per ton, applied when the blend is made. It goes out with your normal dry pass — no new equipment, no extra trip.
So do I still buy phosphorus?
Yes, but potentially less of it. TriPhase is designed to replace part of your traditional P rate, not to sit on top of it. Because it draws on reserves you already own, the economics come from what you stop buying as much as from what the crop gains.
How is this different from NutriCharge?
NutriCharge is the charge-control half — it protects phosphate from being locked up. TriPhase carries that same chemistry plus a charge-release chemistry that actively frees phosphorus already bound in the soil. NutriCharge protects; TriPhase releases and then protects.
Why sidedress rather than at planting?
Because that is when the need is greatest and the supply is lowest. Roughly 75% of corn's phosphorus uptake happens after V10, by which point soil-available P is at its seasonal low. A starter is long gone by then.
Isn't releasing soil phosphorus just a one-time draw?
You are drawing on a reserve built by years of applying more than the crop removed. The purpose is to use what you already paid for rather than continually adding to a bank the crop cannot access — while still applying enough to respect crop removal. Your agronomist should set that balance.
Does it need warm soil like a biological?
The charge-control chemistry is not biological and does not depend on soil temperature. Sidedress timing also means it goes on into warm soil in an actively growing crop — the most favourable conditions of the season.

Make a withdrawal from
the bank you already own.

Talk to an agronomist about fitting TriPhase to your sidedress pass and rebalancing your phosphorus rate.