Soil Conditioner? Root stimulator?

[CarolAnn]

I hope someone knows the answer to this!

My mom used to buy a soil conditioner or ammendment that was a brown liquid - not fish emulsion. It smelled kind of like home brew. It had root stimulators in it & something to aid the natural soil bacteria to break down elements so that you didn't have to add fertizlizer.

I can't remember the name of the stuff!

She used a few drops in the water when she rooted sweet potatoes for the garden - and in a test, she had one potato with the stuff and one without. The one with had four times as many roots in the water! (The sweet potatoes were started in pint jars, tooth picks holding most of the tater out of the water so they didn't fall all the way in.)

She also used it diluted and sprayed it right on leaves as a foliar feed.

Anybody got a guess as to what it was? I know if I see the name, I'll know that's it!

Thanks!

[AlchemyAcres]

A brand name?

What you describe sounds like liquid kelp with added humic acid.??



~Martin

[MooseToo]

some folks swear by the "tea" - manure tea - compost tea - and supposedly the effectiveness is magnified if your barrel is equipped with an aquarium aerator stone -
used as both root stimulant and foliar spray -

[bookwormom]

I am waiting with bated breath for someone to come up with the name.

[CarolAnn]

I finally thought of it - it's Nitron. I think the formula has changed, though - because when I went to their website, the product looked a lot lighter in color than when Mom bought it.

It's really amazing stuff, if it works like it did 15 years ago. Just a tiny bit goes a long, long way.