Humic acid/Kelp

mushroom head

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Bought a humic acid/kelp mixture. Which one is the humic acid, and which one is the kelp?

Both are black, one is a powder, and the other looks almost like small carbon chunks for an aquarium.
 

no clue

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The kelp meal I have is a blackish powder..sort of looks like salt and pepper mixed together except more pepper than salt.
 

no clue

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Humus is made of "plant material resistant to further decomposition" so I guess little carbon chunks might be what it looks like?
 

NightbirdX

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I used Cytoplus (humic, fulvic, and kelp,) and TM-7 (humate, fulvic.) Both are black and granular, like black sand.
 

Nullis

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The humic acid is probably the powder, it should dissolve in water and make a solid black solution. If that is the case then the other stuff would be the kelp. If it is fresh cut kelp then it won't dissolve in water at all. However, it could be some kind of kelp extract in which case it probably would be soluble in water. It's kind of important to know so that you know how much to apply. If it was regular powdered humic acid you could use a teaspoon to a tablespoon to a gallon of water (some places recommend making a concentrate with the powder and then using an ounce of the concentrate per gallon).

The kelp, if it's regular cut kelp, you would also use up to a tablespoon per gallon for AACT, or mixing into soil before transplant, or top-dressing. But if it is some kind of kelp extract the dosages would be much less, like half to a teaspoon per gallon.

Did these actually come pre-mixed together? A photo might help.
 

1337hacker

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Yah if it's water soluble kelp it's gonna look black too lol... tough one here without pics. You could always taste them, I don't think kelp or humic acid ever hurt anyone.
 

medical/420

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Humic acid is a very fine black powder, Kelp is more chunky it has some texture to it.

fine powder is the Humic acid, and the chunkyer stuff is the Kelp
 

blueJ

Active Member
It's a never ending guessing game right now.

You said "mixture" implying it is already mixed together, but then you said one is chunky and one is powder, implying they are seperate, it could be both already mixed together into a granular mix of both and agitation/degredation has turned some of it to powder.

Down to Earth dry humic acid is granular, technaflora soluble seaweed is nearly a powder. Real Kelp meal is very dark green and "granular." The BioAg products are akin to sand/powderized and have products of dry humic by itself, kelp by itself and the mixture of both in the same bag.

So, what exactly is the question again?
 
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