Organic Cotton in Big Lake Texas, treated with TerraPro.

Here's another Proof of Concept of how Humic Acids that are bio-identical supramolecular can actually improve the soils ability to manage water to the crops advantage. This works equally well in urban landscaping as it’s the supramolecular chemistry of these carbon rich high thermal energy molecules that actually make a soils ecology functional and habitable. These molecules have many Mechanisms of Action, including functioning as chemical shuttles and participating as Oxygen electron donor and acceptor systems helping with microbial respiration in the soil.

Organic Cotton in Big Lake Texas, treated with TerraPro:

On the left in the photo below is the part of the field treated with

450 pounds of TerraPro per acre.

Treatment was done after the cotton germinated and was a few inches high. The granular TerraPro was surface broadcast and not incorporated into the soil, as the site has buried drip irrigation. The right hand side of the field was not treated with TerraPro, but both sides were inoculated with EndoMaxima mycorrhizal product.

The first image below with Anna standing in the field show how much larger

and healthier the TerraPro treated field is

as compared to the non-treated.

Plus the non-treated field suffered from drought as the water was cut off 2 months earlier on both fields, the main reason why the non-treated field did not grow as much.

TerraPro gave a two month moisture advantage to the treated field.

Michael Martin Meléndrez

Managing Member of Soil Secrets LLC

505 550-3246

www.soilsecrets.com

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