JoeReal

The guaranteed analysis is required by the USDA for all foliar fertilizers. So it is a report format that does no justice if you will use AZ41 based on that analysis alone for the entire crop's nutrition program. That's the analysis of the concentrate. The major ingredients are Melaleuca oil, Aloe vera gel extracts, and Citrus peels. Plus just the smallest amount of deionized water needed to make the product 100% water soluble when mixed. Most of the macro, micro, and phytonutrients come from the Aloe vera extracts, and we know very well that oils from Melaleuca and citrus peels has practically no nutrient value, but it has the antifungal, antimicrobial, nematicidal, and insecticidal properties. The oils also keeps the fruits and leaves clean and shiny. The Aloe vera extracts contain the macro and micronutrients, vitamins, acetylmannan and other phytohormones that enhances the plant's resistance to pests and diseases. The Aloe vera gel also has saponnins that gives it a sticker property to enable mixing with other foliar fertilizers without needing to use sticker chemicals.

We recommend the use of AZ41 along with your normal nutrition program, like mixing with your regular foliar fertilizers, and then forego the application of all nematicides, fungicides and insecticides. Sometimes, if the soil is naturally rich and will require only AZ41. AZ41 encourages fertilizer use efficiency, provides vitamins and phytohormones to make better use of what nutrients your plant gets. It also boosts the plant resistance to diseases and insect damages.

When we work with farmers who have several thousand acre farm land, we provide free technical services to help them with their nutrition and crop protection program. These are the farmers who order thousand bottles per year. And we send over botanists and agriculturists to talk with their counterparts in the farm. We conduct side by side trials if they are skeptical at first. Then we help them troubleshoot as some problems come up.

We are working with a Napa grape wine grower and have very nice initial results. There was no need for him to apply fertilizer, we send our team to diagnose his fields and make recommendations on how to adjust the nutrition program. The complete eradication of sulfur-based and copper-based fungicides reduces formation of H2S in wine making, giving back the natural grape aroma without some rotten smell from sulfur.

It was my work with these farmers last year and along with the wonderful technical team of Greener Earth Tech that I convinced the company to extend its arms towards the hobbyists, as I know it would be useful for the likes of us, being a hobbyist myself.

So to use AZ41, consider what it all does in totality and how it improves the bottom line of the farmers, and we usually talk about costing.

Due to AZ41's imparting of Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR), we are now working on a derivative product that will synergistically increase the effects of SAR to help combat the dreaded Greening diseases of citruses. We will be marketing it as AZGreen, and we have very promising results of AZGreen in a few Greening disease infested areas. The approach is two fold, one is that it kills the insect vectors (Asian Citrus Psyllids) on contact, and the other is that it tremendously boosts the plant's ability to cope up with the disease even if it has been infected and producing normal fruits, or prevents the disease from setting in because of its boosted immune system.

Anyway, we aim to provide toxic-free methodologies to combat both insect pests and diseases while help improve plant nutrition.

The general idea is that most tropical plants are bombarded with year-round diseases and insect pressure. If a product works in the tropical areas, it should work better elsewhere. We have been extracting many types of plant chemicals from the healthiest tropical plants which normally have built those resistances naturally while in the tropics thriving under such heavy selection pressures, and then use those extracts on other crop plants. We try to avoid the use of synthetic chemicals which although might be approved by the FDA based on the short term required tests, but whose long term effects are unknown.

Our product is a new type which is being positioned right now as foliar blend, a fertilizer supplement due to stringent requirements of other categories, but it has excellent side effects on the other categories, rivaling the results of conventional toxic chemicals. It is not the sole source of nutrition but with it you will have enhanced use of your fertilizers in your existing nutrition program and as a big bonus, you can have insect pests, nematodes and disease protections, and can let go of those toxic chemicals. And as foliar blend, it provides some nutrition in the form of macro and micronutrients. It has hormones, amino acids and other nutrition enhancers.

In some cases, it enhances root and bud formation. In sugarcane for example, it enhances formation of buds when planting sugar cane. Just dip the canes to cover it with the diluted solution, and when you plant, it doubles the amount of cane buds that come out of the planting. It also helps rooting of grape, pomegranate, citrus and rose cuttings. But in itself AZ41 has only a mild rooting hormone property, so it is not a complete substitute for root hormones, but it can improve the rooting compared to just sticking the cuttings into the soil. I dip my scionwood in the diluted AZ41 before I do the grafting and it helps in the take. Banana corms should respond well by dipping into the solution before planting them. Watering the banana roots with the product should help alleviate root associated problems with bananas. It also helps skin eczema, and a nice liquid soap or shampoo for those other fanatic users of ours, due to its melaleuca and Aloe vera extracts.

Some of our growers have been combining our product with Multi-fix, which makes it the best combo to use on strawberries and other vegetables. Of course, there are other foliar products you can mix it with to give you total crop nutrition and crop protection.

If the crop fertilizers are applied basally, then AZ41 will help the uptake if some of it is also applied through the drip lines.

We had other people try to mix together extracts of Melaleuca, citrus peels and Aloe vera but they were not effective. We have a patented process of extraction and mixing which results in 100% water solubility and the discovered enhance properties I have mentioned above based on world wide trials on farmer's fields.

Perhaps our closest competitor would be Timorex, a melaleuca oil-based product that is developed and marketed by an Israeli company. And we are priced competitively with that product. It is also used on organically grown bananas in Southern American countries. That will be our next target once we are done with our OMRI certification.

Most importantly, compared to other total packages, ours will provide a gateway for farmers to convert from conventional farming to organic farming. Right now, we can compete head-on with conventional inputs that will allow farmers to produce completely pesticide-free produce that are blemish-free, such as squeakingly-clean fresh grapes. The pesticide free product is a big step as that alone will help us get rid of the many toxic chemicals constantly sprayed to keep the crops appealing. In fact, from my own opinion, I can live with conventional fertilizers but not with any synthetic pesticides, fungicides, nematicides and other chemical inputs.

It used to be that only synthetic chemicals can be used to produce blemish-free crops, and usually, organic products are generally non-appealing when it comes to looks of the farmers' products. Now, blemish-free appealing crops that are toxic-free and pesticide-free residues, from the grower to the the consumer, are made possible with AZ41 and our other upcoming products. Safe for the applicator, the farmer, and the ultimate consumer. We can spray AZ41 on lettuce for example, and you can eat the lettuce right away without worry. You can spray an entire field or your yard, and enjoy the citrus-scented aroma of the spray without fear of toxic chemicals entering your body. And to be rewarded with mostly blemish-free crops, this would take organic growing to the next level of producing appealing crops, with an excellent arsenal up their sleeves. CCOF (Organic Directory - CCOF: Organic Certification, Trade Association, Organic Education, and Political Advocacy since 1973 ) has approved organic farmers even if they use our products, but we still have to do OMRI certification for automatic classification. It is in the works, and should pass easily with flying colors because none of our ingredients are synthetic and none are toxic. Most importantly, you don't need to go organic to use our product, but it will provide you an excellent option to convert over. AZ41 can be used for the current conventional growing but make your products cleaner, free from man-made patented chemicals that are often toxic, carcinogenic and other unknown long-term effects on human health and the environment.



Joe