Humus that contains supramolecular humic
molecules (generically called Humic Acids) and plants that are mycorrhizal are
the key to successful agriculture. So implementing the use of humics that
are guaranteed to be supramolecular and inoculating the crop with the
mycorrhizal species Glomus intraradices will play a significant
role in producing the maximum yield of any short season crop including the
production of World Record Pumpkins.
Trace Minerals: Kelp is for trace minerals and
since we use kelp in everything we produce at Soil Secrets, using our
protocol always results in plenty of trace minerals. Don't use more if
you are using TerraPro, Earth Nectar, Earth Ambrosia or Protein Crumblies at
minimum label rates. Since Kelp and Raw Whole Organic Milk are major
ingredients in formulating our TerraPro's humic characteristics and kelp is
also used in the formulation of the other listed products, our protocol
provides a healthy dose of trace minerals. For example, in acid
soils Calcium is a limiting factor and all plant and animal life need
Calcium. Well there's no better source or better molecular
configuration for Calcium than what's found in Raw Whole Organic Milk, and the
molecular configuration of the humic molecules of TerraPro are made by
using milk.
What makes a plant produce biomass is the combination of energy
from the sun, nitrogen from the protein coming from the soil
microbiology (what we call the Soil Food Web), carbon from the
atmosphere and the major base cations occupying the Cation Exchange
Capacity of the soil. Hopefully your soil is dominated by the
base cation Calcium, which is often the case in a high pH soil
(alkaline). Cation Exchange Capacity is abbreviated CEC and if its
low, often the case with sandy soil, then fortifying the site with humic
molecules that have an extremely high CEC will help you hold onto
those base cations you have purchased and applied to the site.
Adding our supramolecular humic molecules of TerraPro will fortify
additional CEC potential, helping to retain the base cation minerals that are
being added to the site, for example, in the form of slow release fertilizers
like Compost.
While the CEC of TerraPro's humic molecules is huge, adding
the product will not change the indigenous CEC of the soil, unless you added a
ridiculous amount of it. The exception of needed to add huge
amounts of TerraPro is when you’re dealing with toxic and corrosive mine
tailings. The major base cations of soil such as the calcium may not be
abundant in a soil with a low pH, or the minerals might be cemented into the
chemistry of the soil and the plant is unable to make them available via a "solutioning"
process. Solutioning is a term of geology where carbonic acid and other
weak acids of soil chemistry dissolve the solid mass of rock, putting the
elements of the rock into a liquid solution. Once in a liquid solution
plants are able to uptake those minerals as needed. Both the mycorrhizal
relationship and the supramolecular humic molecules that make up the persistent
carbon of soil play a huge role in plant nutrient uptake potential
by solutioning the indigenous minerals of the soil that the plant
cannot get on its own. The humic factor helps to keep the
minerals in a water nutrient solution longer, as the molecules of the humics, if
supramolecular only, hold water molecules from evaporating away so
easily. If the soil has a poor Soil Food Web which is almost always
the case, then it's prudent to fortify the Soil Food Web with Protein
Crumblies to make sure there's enough protein nitrogen cycling on the site
to satisfy every part of the terrestrial biosphere including the pumpkin
crop.
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