100% Organic Non-Toxic Microbial Rich Solutions
P.O. Box 95, Cardiff by the Sea, CA 92007
Ph. 760-942-6086,
www.OrganicsAlive.org
email:geohahn@gmail.com
How it Works
Jan, 2007
Organics Alive® Premium Mix Results:
Dramatic Growth Improvement (30%-400%)
Vigorous Vitality (Healthy & Vigorous Plants)
Problem Elimination (Healthy Plants Have no Problems)
What is Organics Alive® Premium Mix? (Non-Toxic, All Organic)
50% Organics Alive® Pure Worm Castings
44% OMRI Certified Organic Compost
3% Fossilized Kelp (to supply Calcium)
3% Volcanic Rock (to supply mineral balance)
How is Organics Alive® Worm Castings different than other worm
castings?
All other worm castings produced from manures and landscape waste:
(Pathogens & pesticides are usually in manure and landscape trimmings) .
Manures produce:
~2-3 million CFU/dw g Chitin Degraders
~10 million CFU/dwg Cellulose Degraders
OA Castings contains:
200 million CFU Chitin Degraders
400 million CFU Cellulose Degraders
Full Array of Beneficial Soil Biology (30,000 Diversity)
Importance of Chitin Degraders & Cellulose Degraders
Recycling all soil bacteria & fungi to provide food for the plants.
Application: Good for all plants -
Flowers, Vegetables, Trees, & Turf
10-20% Potting Mix
One (1”) inch layer over root zone
Every six (6) months add an additional ¼” – ½”
Trees 12 inch wide ring at drip line.
Problem Trees add multiple typically 8 injection tubes at drip line.
Chemical Plant Feeding compared to Organic Feeding
Chemical fertilizer Fertilizer salts become aqueous when water is added.
Gravity then takes this liquid fertilizer past the root zone in 4-6 days. Once
this liquid has passed the roots, all feeding of the plant is finished.
Research has shown that the maximum absorption of chemical fertilizer is
7-11%. Fertilizer that is not absorbed passes into the water table.
(Evidence of this is seen with the periodic rains in southern California that
severely contaminates the beaches).
Non-Chemical (organic) feeding is a three step process.
Bacteria and Fungus: Plant nutrition is held in the form of healthy soil
biology: bacteria and fungi. Healthy soil will have a balance of both
bacterial and fungal organisms with a diversity of at least 10,000. This
diverse soil biology is the fuel in the tank for the plants. This living biology
is symbiotic with the plants and will stay in the root zone and will expand
the volume of the root mass. This biology does not run off and become
contaminants and is only produced by worm castings.
Carbon/Nitrogen Biology Food: The bacteria and fungi of the soil biology
require feed as all organisms. The structural basis of bacteria is 7 carbons
and 1 nitrogen, fungus is 30 carbons and one nitrogen. For one bacterium to
divide into two, 7 carbons and 1 nitrogen are needed for this division from 1
to 2. . When fungus extends from one to two 30 carbons and one nitrogen
are needed. So the feed for the healthy soil biology needs to have a
carbon/nitrogen C/N ratio in the range of 15-20:1. This is compost with
approximately equal amounts of green and brown materials. So quality
compost is needed to feed the biology as a key part of the organic feeding.
This is supplied with the organic compost in OA Premium Mix.
Recycling Organisms: Plants are unable to absorb bacteria, fungi or
compost. Recycling organisms are the 3rd part of the feeding cycle. The
bacteria and fungi must be digested (recycled). The remnants of the
digestion are nutrients in a form that can be absorbed through the root zone.
The large sized recyclers are the beneficial nematodes, protozoa, and
ciliates. But the majority of the recycling to feed plants is performed by
chitin degrader and cellulose degraders. If soil has only a few thousand
recyclers per gram, the feed made available to plants is limited and so is
plant growth and vitality. Manure fed worm castings supply 2-3 million
cfu/gram chitin degraders and 4-6 million cfu/gram cellulose degraders.
Organics Alive® castings contain 200 million cfu/gm chitin degraders and
400-450 million cfu/gm cellulose degraders. This increase provides the
growth rate increases from 40-400%.
So the natural feeding system will provide nutrition to plants for a full
growth cycle or six months rather than the two weeks provided by chemical
fertilizer. This provides much higher quality plants with superior plant
yield.
Think of the biological growing system in two ways:
Mack Truck:
 The fuel to propel the truck is the biology that is in the tank.
 The compost in the bed of the truck feeds the fuel to multiply the fuel
 This keeps the tank full.
 The engine is the recycling organisms that convert the fuel into energy
to move the truck. With only a few recyclers the engine is the size of
a “mo-ped” power unit so the forward progress is limited.
 The recyclers in the Organics Alive® castings have been increased
~1,000% percent providing 1,000 engines working together to convert
the fuel into plant growth. Now you are running on a full size
Cummins Diesel engine.
Three Legged Stool:
Biological plant growth requires all three legs to work right just like a three
legged stool. If one leg is missing, the system does not work right. The
three legs are:
 Balanced biology (bacteria and fungi) with a diversity of at least
10,000 species to provide the energy.
 Carbon/nitrogen food in the form of compost or mulch to feed the
biology.
 Recyclers to digest the biology and feed the plants when needed.