Re: Humates and Humic acid
I have personally use humate in my vegetable gardens,and ornamental gardens.
The results comes form the vegetable garden because you can taste the difference. It gives the vegetable a firmer texture and it increased the flavor to extraordinary level. It increase the sugar content by maybe twenty five percent, this even if the pH and fertilizer program is less then perfect.
The new thing in humate or humic shale is the extraction of fulvic acid. It is being consumed by people to treat certain maladies, of which I know little.
If a dilute portion of fulvic acid and water is applied as a foliar spray at night it will induce growth, even during the dormant periods of summer.
The humate is made up of three basic acids, fulvic, humic and ulvic, each acid is responsible for it own set of benefits. These are not acids as we typically think of acid and they do not change the pH of soil.
Humate, applied to the soil will improve it's biological structure in every way that is of benefit. If you want earth worms, apply humate, if you want to detoxify your soil add humate, if you want to break down clay use it, if you want to cut on the use of fertilizer use humate. If you want to increase the mycorrhizae relationship use humic shale. If you want to skip using fertilizers all together do it.
But don't take my word for it , I am no body but this guy is :
Dr. T.L. Senn
Head Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Horticulture,Clemson University what does this old boy have to add to the topic. Here is a link to a paper that he wrote on fulvic: http://www.richearth.net/Dr_Senn.htm...0Fulvic%20Acid
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