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Old 04-10-2015, 09:34 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Default Re: Malted Barley tea

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Originally Posted by redswe View Post
Definitely not minor ...
Compared to available hormone products, the hormone content is minor. Further, it is usually combined with technical alfalfa extract in a particular ratio to obtain a more powerful effect. In the world of plant growth regulators, it is a hormone catalyst.

Enzyme production is largely a function of potassium availability, and of course a supply of nitrogen plus carbon, phosphate, calcium and photo energy to carry out the production.

If these are not already in the soil then there is no way the barley extract will create them; i.e., no soil organism or fertilizer will create new atoms of N, P, or K from other atoms.
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