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4 Responses to Can someone please educate me about Liquid Organic Fertilizer with universal essence?

1. This product you are asking about is being manufactured and sold out of the (Republic of China) Taiwan (this is their statement, not mine). It consists of what is known as organic tea. If there is any actual research to back up their claims, I haven been able to find it, nor did I expect to. The product as advertised is basically a big rip off.
   Their claim:
   “This product contains macro, secondary, micro, and more than ten necessary nutriments such as more than tens of different good microbes, medium and short bond amino acids, enzyme protein hydrolysate, powerful protease, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium (amount < 15%), boron, manganese, zinc, magnesium (amount < 4%), calcium, iron, and copper. " If their claims are accurate (they don't state this a 15:15:15, N P K fertilizer or if it is 15% total) they are selling this tea in 1 liter bottles and recommending a 1:1500 liter dilution. That comes out to about .0001% active ingredient, in other words almost nothing. Applying this product as recommended about the only advantage your plant would receive would from the watering it gets. Organic tea is not a bad product, if you make your own and apply it at a rate that would actually do you some good, it works great. This product being labeled as Liquid Organic Fertilizer with Universal Essence is a good product that is being sold out of a country where they don't have to back up their claims in a volume so low that it would not be worth the postage to get it to you. Don't waste your money on this product. For all we know it is coming right out of their sewer system. Look on the web for how to make organic tea and make a good product that you can use and know that it will do you some good. http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:7WUc74RF2O8J:www.gideon-global.com/eng/img/02_uep_en.doc+Liquid+Organic+Fertilizer+with+universal+essence&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us&lr=lang_en

   

   john h
   October 12, 2011 at 11:37 pm
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2. plant waste in a juicer with the pulp on top

   

   D2Hammers
   October 12, 2011 at 11:38 pm
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3. Below is the response I gave to your last question concerning this topic with this addition, do not fall prey to advertising bull crud. It is all foolishness designed to get your money. Instead you need to understand the nature of micro elements and the nature of humus and humic acid and similar humis components. There is NO UNIVERSAL ESSENCE, and no magic formula. Once understand the real science, then you will see what I mean and you will laugh. Sea weed emulsion, fish emulsions, trace elements, don’t be fooled. If you don’t understand, drop me an email and I will send you a file.

   One problem about these liquid organic fertilizers that are produced and marketed is that they completely defeat the purpose of organic farming/ gardening. The are all so outrageously expensive for a product that we all can find local inexpensive sources for. They are shipped at great expense (liquids are heavy and costly) by truck and train and boat and that requires fuel (and all the implications of fuel burning, fuel use and procurement, etc). They are packed in plastic (sometimes glass) with boxes and protectors that are just more items to discard, reuse, or recycle. They all claim to be such superior forms of miracles in the way they cause plants to grow with all kinds of manipulated statistics and wild claims. Seaweed super-hooey, emulsified fish gurry cookie dough, the names go on and on and the money is HUGE!

   Here is the real deal and trust me because I know. I spent a lot of time and money on a great education and have been in the industry. The products are all fine and dandy but when you learn how they work you will see what I mean. Plants grow in the ground, for the most part, and the roots of the plant are responsible for taking in the nutrients in the form of the SOIL SOLUTION. The roots take in the elements as they exist, dissolved in water. These elements are basically the anions and cations, positively and negatively charged components of molecules, and the elements themselves. They must be in solution and they are not used any other way. A root will not take in a solid. A root also needs oxygen just as much as the leaves do, and even in hydroponics they still must have some or they will drown. Period! All I have said above is fact, law which may not be broken. So what makes all that stuff good?

   Plants need the major 3 components that are the basis of the bag specifications that we see today; in order they are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. In short they are given as percents but not really in reality, but close enough for this discussion. There are also 12 minor nutrients which (all) plants need. Without them in the right amounts the major 3 are useless. That is the difference between a good fertilizer and a cheap useless one. Keep in mind that the best fertilizer is of no value at all if the pH of the soil solution at each different plant’s root system is not right. Each of the fertilizer anions and cations will only be available in the right amounts if it is in the right pH. Too high or too low and it is out of whack and when one is screwed up it throws the other off. That is why a plant likes to have certain soil pH. It evolved like that over millions of years and if you don’t give them that they will do poorly and may even die. Threw breeding we can change it some, but not a lot. It is just the way it is for more reasons than I can go into. What does that have to do with all the liquid organics? I’m getting there! Don’t rush me!
   Those products are good in that they supply a lot of those great micro-nutrients that can be missing due to poor soil, or used up soil, or inert potting medium, or any number of problems. The point of building up a good compost or adding manure, encouraging soil bacteria/ fungus/ worms and all the good practices is that it does right in your soil what these liquids “claim” to do but can never really accomplish because you are getting the product when you really want to encourage the live soil for yourself. A good alive soil makes all the micros and macros, makes the humus and humic acid components that it vital. A jug can mimic but won’t do it. Plants evolved to take advantage of the niche that is that rich living soil that covers everything, and it incorporates it into the cycles of life (and death). Those expensive products? When you know about nutrients you see that you can make your own manure tea, and you can make your own seaweed and fish gurry tea, and encourage your own humus and humic acid contents with soil bacterias and worms and other soil flora/ fauna. Don’t fall for the trap of foliar feeding beats all! It is not proven! Plants do not take those nutrients into their leaves. If anything it is the shape of the upper plant that guides the liquids to the best place in the soil to find the root ends and root “hairs”.

   In short and for the most part, plants don’t really care where the food comes from and in what source, organic or chemical, except to say that there is more to be had from an organic living soil and the huge numbers and differences in organics, as was meant to be. With knowledge you should be able to find all of the components you need in your own home town either free or at reduced cost and get so much more out of them. Spend your change on that and on a good book about composting and organic gardening. That is even free at the library! If you need more on this, give me a hollar! Obviously I like to talk about it!

   

   mike453683
   October 12, 2011 at 11:46 pm
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4. Water coming out of a septic tank would be a low cost alternative. But they have likely aerated it, perhaps dried it in an open field before shipping it to you. As removed from the septic tank it would be a bit smelly.

   

   donfletcheryh
   October 13, 2011 at 12:28 am
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