BuildASoil BIG 6 Micronutrients + Humic Acid Reviews
★★★★★ 4.95 out of 5·451 verified reviews·136 with photos
Paul
I love having an amendment that fills the gap that BAS’s soil recipes are oddly lacking on. I don’t know exactly why BAS’s soils are missing key micronutrients, but regardless, this is good to have. However, it’s a nightmare for me to use it every single time. It constantly clogs my sprayer. I have to unclog the tip every 30 seconds or so when applying this stuff. It’s not quite micronized enough for sprayers. When I need to use it which is every 1 to 2 weeks I’m going to start using it in a rain style watering can. That sucks because I can’t control the soil coverage as well as I can with a sprayer, but I have to figure something out to fill those nutrient gaps in the soil. Good stuff, just a pain to use.
I know right! We actually add lot's of this right into our 3.0 Recipe soil but with such high organic matter it's helpful to have a way to add more instead of trying to frontload so much. The results are better. We get it!! We wish the humic was totally water soluble as well, Dr. Faust often told me if we needed to use on farm or foliar to do a hot water extraction of the micronutrients and then let it all settle. This way just the chunks of humic are left at bottom and all the micronutrients are in the water. Hope that helps
samuel
Seems to be A Lot less liquid soluble than previous orders. Used it a lot a really liked it but this seems unusual.
There is natural variability in the raw humic acid component from Faust but the micronutrients contained within are water soluble and it's totally okay to have some humic left in the bottom. We will check into some of the raw bags and follow up with Faust to confirm. It's totally possible your bag had more larger solids than usual being that it's natural and not perfectly uniform. We care and really do think you are still getting the benefit you are after. That being said, quality control is the top of the list and we will investigate. Hope you have a great run!! P.S. Some people use hot water to extract the BIG 6. I just toss it in my usual water, but figured I would suggest it.
Wade B.
I really don't care for this product I know it's a necessity but it clogs up my sprayer every time. Wish it was a little more broke down or More soluble.