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Sunday, August 03, 2008
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Big Kahuna 26
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Ontario, Canada.
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Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC), Humic Acid and Atlantic Giant Pumpkins (AGP).
Humic acid also prevents soil leaching of calcium and other positive charged ions by binding them to the molecules. It allows mycorrhizae fungi to flourish and easily colonize plant roots by providing a plethora of nutrients in an easy to open storage bin. The fungi are able to easily garner and exchange other elements and thus share their required nutrients and transport them directly into the root zone. Humic acid is an excellent supplement to fertilizers and is often used to improve nutrient absorption.
Humic acid is often a very worthwhile investment and is considered the best natural storage container and holder of nutrients. Does it work? Drive by a nearby marsh or wetland and find out for yourself. Muck soils found in marshy wetlands are often used to grow vegetables. The Holland marsh in Central Ontario is one of the provinces best productive areas of vegetables thanks largely to the accumulation of the HA built up in the soil. These are the chief benefits of adding HA to the soil when growing the AGP.
Humate and Humic Acid, Dr. Wayne R. Kussow, Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison
http://www.hort.wisc.edu/cran/pubs_archive/newsletters/1996/8_5_96%20newsletter.pdf
Cation Exchange, University of Florida Exchange
http://nutrients.ifas.ufl.edu/nutrient%20pages/BSFpages/CatExchange.htm
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