The most complete liquid plant food to grow in a living soil system
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What it is
It’s a living plant food.
From Adam – the designer:
It’s amino acids from a vegan source, fulvic acids from wood (not leonardite), carboxylic acid chelated food grade trace minerals. It also has a pinch of sugars from organic cane and wood sugars.
It’s a high brix solution that should build brix in the plant and give it some carbon energy savings that can help encourage exudation while supporting carbon metabolism through aiding chlorophyll and rubisco synthesis.
It’s designed to be a foliar but works well with compost extracts as a food source. I’ve tried to steer clear of animal products, sea products and mined fulvics. I think it will be a handy product for folks chasing nutrient density and carbon rich secondary metabolites.
When adding nitrogen to a system there are usually challenges: will the nitrogen leach? Will it be picked up by microorganisms busy decomposing the woody elements of the soil? Will it be sent into the atmosphere as nitrous oxide by other microbes?
We asked ourselves – what if the nitrogen was already in microbes? What if there was enough carbon to ensure that both the microbes and the plants were happy at the same time?
We started with a blank slate, and arrived at a product which not only feeds your plants, but does it so without upsetting the delicate balance of a Living Soil system. In order to do that, we had to balance out the nitrogen with carbon which we have found to be a very challenging task. We’ve aimed at a 3 to 1 carbon to nitrogen ratio or higher, which is the minimum required by lactobacillus – one of the groups of microbes included in the mix.
To top it off, we added 7 essential micronutrients to ensure your plants run on full steam.
It excels as a foliar feed, but can also be used as a regular soil drench in Living Soil systems or small pots.
And it is alive! When you purchase it, it’s shelf stable, but when you dilute it for use, you wake up a host of beneficial microorganisms.
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