Fulvic acid powder to water ratio

Hey guys. I'm looking at purchasing some 90% fulvic acid powder in bulk to make a liquid like FulPower. I have read all kinds of different ratios of dilution.from what I read there are two common conversion methods. From the boiag site itself

"By the Verplogh and Brandvold method Ful-Power fulvic measures 8%. By the Classical Method the same fulvic measures .015%."

So not sure if I should add 8 grams per 100ml ( 8% fulvic to 92% water if the powder was 100% pure) or 1.5 grams per 10,000 no (0.015% fulvic to 99.985% water if the powder was 100% pure) to make an equivalent to the FulPower liquid. I want to make the equivalent so I can use the application rate brownguy420 uses but at a cheaper rate than buying the diluted liquid sold by bioag.

Thanks in advanced

Any No-till gardeners in here use a liquid or powdered fulvic acid?

Gilbertslab said:

Any No-till gardeners in here use a liquid or powdered fulvic acid?

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if you're using adequate amounts of compost and topdressing compost, or have compost worms in your no-till, there's really no need if your compost is good. if you want some liquid fulvic and humic acids (and not buy them), do a compost extract.

take a few gallons of water, a few handfuls of compost placed in a mesh bag (i use my 220 micron bubble bag), massage the compost in the water for 30-60 sec and wring out the compost when finished. voila, liquid humic and fulvic acids, along with microorganisms that were in your compost, plus a light amount of plant food too! you can google compost extract if my instructions dont make sense for some reason.

ShLUbY said:

if you're using adequate amounts of compost and topdressing compost, or have compost worms in your no-till, there's really no need if your compost is good. if you want some liquid fulvic and humic acids (and not buy them), do a compost extract.

take a few gallons of water, a few handfuls of compost places in a mesh bag (i use my 220 micron bubble bag), massage the compost in the water for 30-60 sec and wring out the compost when finished. voila, liquid humic and fulvic acids, along with microorganisms that were in your compost, plus a light amount of plant food too! you can google compost extract if my instructions dont make sense for some reason.

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Thanks for the reply. As this is going to be my first full season doing no-till indoors and outdoors my compost pile is limited because of all the pots I need to fill. So I was going to suppliment fulvic this season to boost levels in new containers. The price of the bottled stuff just seems way over priced for mostly water so I was trying to source a concentrated powder to cut costs. I guess I'll just put a little less in the pots and save some for teas. Any other inputs welcome. Thanks again for your reply.

Gilbertslab said:

Thanks for the reply. As this is going to be my first full season doing no-till indoors and outdoors my compost pile is limited because of all the pots I need to fill. So I was going to suppliment fulvic this season to boost levels in new containers. The price of the bottled stuff just seems way over priced for mostly water so I was trying to source a concentrated powder to cut costs. I guess I'll just put a little less in the pots and save some for teas. Any other inputs welcome. Thanks again for your reply.

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i wouldn't cut it back in the soil, i'd put it in there. you can get a yard of compost (200gal) for less than 100$ most likely (it's 40$ where i'm at).... and then you could get some composting worms and just let them work the pile all season and take from it when you need to to make teas. small investment for the whole season

ShLUbY said:

i wouldn't cut it back in the soil, i'd put it in there. you can get a yard of compost (200gal) for less than 100$ most likely (it's 40$ where i'm at).... and then you could get some composting worms and just let them work the pile all season and take from it when you need to to make teas. small investment for the whole season

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Yeah, I might just have to do that. I have vermicompost bins currently going in the basement and was definatly planning on adding wigglers to the pots. I've just seen several no tillers supplementing fulvic on new soil mixes. Thanks again for your input.