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Soil Activated Treasure: Unclear directions and content, unrealistic claims, some potential benefit
This product is largely unknowable. Neither the listing nor the container indicates what's in it. It's a fine silt that looks like it's probably very finely ground charcoal or biochar. The listing isn't much help; it gives the "new nutrition ratio" as 70% or greater organic matter, 50% or greater "mineral source potassium fulvic acid," and 255% humic acid. That's 375% total, so there's probably some sort of translation error going on here.That's typical in the directions; you're left to figure out statements like "When diluted with water, the water can be more, soil activator Not too much, not as thin as thick, so as not to Burn seedlings." The dilution ratio given for spray/root application is "dilute 3000-500 times"; the ratio for drip irrigation is given in the more typical low-to-high range format (500-1000 grams per mu), so it's impossible to say whether 3000-500 is a weird format choice or a typo for "300-500."I went with option 2 and assumed that I should add 300-500 times as much water as product. I decided to go with a volume measure because it was easier and precision was already impossible, so I used a tablespoon measure and calculated a ratio of 1 tablespoon to roughly 1.5 gallons of water. I mixed that and applied it 5 times in the course of one week to test the manufacturer's claim that "If it is used for 3-7days, new buds can be seen and a large number of secondary roots can be seen at the same time." Results for use locations in outdoor vegetable beds:1) Two heat-stressed blueberry bushes. The listing claims that this product improves drought resistance and it's July in a desert here. Result: none. They look exactly the same as when I started.2) One young kale seedling. Result: the kale plant did put out some new leaves. That bed hasn't been doing well, so something of a positive sign. Still, other kale plants in a nearby bed are also putting out new leaves, so it's hard to say it's the product causing this.3) Two young kohlrabi at the end of a row of kohlrabi plants. All plants in this row are irrigated by timer, and all received the same amount of water. Result: these two kohlrabi did grow faster and surpassed their two nearest neighbors.Bottom line: it's a mysterious substance that may or may not improve the growth of some plants. It's quite difficult to know if you're using it correctly, and it's also expensive for the coverage you get from it. I used up all of this container irrigating the plants above plus a random extra 2-3 plants per day 5 times. I wouldn't recommend it.
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