What Makes The Best Humic Fertilizer

Humic substances are ubiquitous occurring naturally in compost, peat, lignin, and brown coal (Leonardite), but in this raw form it is beneficial to the soil but it is not going to produce the results that humic acid and fulvic acid are known for, such as, increased nutrient uptake, increased seed germination, increased root and shoot weight, more soil biology activity, increased flowering, larger fruits and higher yields.

To get these benefits the raw humic molecule must be cleaved apart to access multiple interaction sites that facilitate the maximum number of reactions. Humic substances are an aggregation of different types of organic matter, typically highly decomposed plant and animal material that formed very slowly over a long period of time and it is very resistant to being broken down.

 The best example of this scenario would be a bowling ball; large, heavy, hard to break apart with very few reaction sites. Other manufacturers break the bowling ball into smaller chunks, like charcoal briquettes, these are more reactive and are able to be digested by soil bacteria and are more beneficial to plants.

We use an additional manufacturing step that creates more of the highly reactive low molecular weight humic particles. Think about the briquettes being broken down into fine grains. We don’t do this by mechanical grinding, this takes place on a molecular level, it is a natural process that is accepted for organic growing programs and greatly increases the effectiveness of our final product.