Ever since I started making Sumo Cakes® people have been asking me if I had any mycorrhizae products, and I have always said no. My assumption is that they are looking for the powder versions that they can inoculate their soil with after repotting or whatever.
The Sumo Cakes® Root Elixir doesn’t really solve that but what it does do is provide a liquid mixed bag (or bottle in this case) of beneficial microorganisms, micronutrients, and macronutrients.
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What is Root Elixer?
Sumo Cakes® Root Elixir is a liquid root drench and microbial inoculant. It contains nutrients that are immediately available to plants as well as soil microbes to encourage microbial colonization in the root zone. This colonization of microbes helps the plants to achieve enhanced nutrient uptake.
Sumo Cakes® Root Elixir also supplies the essential macro and micronutrients that can help plants thrive.
Root Elixir has been in the works for a while. A few conversations with my soil consultant, locating the proper ingredients to achieve what I was looking for, followed by lab tests and here is what you get. A micronutrient-rich microbial inoculant root elixir.
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS
Total Nitrogen (N) 0.7%
Available Phosphate (P2O5) 0.15%
Soluble Potash (K2O) 0.5%
Secondary Nutrients
Calcium (Ca) 0.02%
Magnesium (Mg) 0.3%
Sulfur (S) 1.10%
Micro Nutrients
Boron (B) 0.23%
Chloride (Cl) 1.50%
Cobalt (Co) 0.02%
Copper (Cu) 0.6%
Iron (Fe) 0.8%
Manganese (Mn) 0.3%
Molybdenum (Mo) 0.01%
Sodium (Na) 0.043%
Zinc (Zn) 0.45%
Ingredients:
Borax, Cobalt sulfate, Earthworm castings, Ferrous Sulfate, Kelp, Magnesium sulfate, Manganese sulfate, Protein hydrolysate, Sodium molybdate, zinc sulfate
Beneficial Fungi:
- Gigaspora margarita
- Glomus aggregatum
- Glomus brasilianum
- Glomus clarum
- Glomus deserticola
- Glomus etunicatum
- Glomus intraradices
- Glomus mosseae
- Glomus monosporum
- Laccaria bicolor
- Laccaria laccata
- Pisolithus tinctorius
- Rhizopogon amylopogon
- Rhizopogon fulvigleba
- Rhizopogon luteolus
- Rhizopogon villosulus
- Scleroderma cepa
- Scleroderma citrinum
- Suillus granulatus
- Suillus punctatipes
- Trichoderma harzianum
- Trichoderma koningii
Beneficial Bacteriea
- Azotobacter chroococcum
- Bacillus amyloliquefaciens
- Bacillus azotoformans
- Bacillus coagulans
- Bacillus licheniformis
- Bacillus megaterium
- Bacillus pumilus
- Bacillus stearothermiohillis
- Bacillus thuringiensis
- Paenibacillus durum
- Paenibacillus florescence
- Paenibacillus gordonae
- Paenibacillus polymyxa
- Pseudomonas aureofaceans
- Pseudomonas fluorescens
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Some other reading on this site about fertilizers and mycorrhizae can be found at the following links.
- Bonsai Fertilizer Basics
- Function of Essential Nutrients
- Mycorrhizae, the Beneficial Symbiotic Relationship
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