What is Super Algae?
Super Algae is a proprietary blend of living green (Phylum Chlorophyta), and yellow-green (Phylum Xanthophyta) algae, and beneficial bacteria that are naturally concentrated in a freshwater matrix. Super Algae is viable and is able to promptly reproduce to provide soil structure benefits, provide nutrients for plants, and act as an irrigation system cleaning agent. Sustainable soils contain as many as 100,000 algae cells per gram of soil; therefore, adding Super Algae will improve the overall adequacy of a soil. Super Algae is 100% natural and can be used with any irrigation system or fertilization program to begin to achieve a higher crop yield.
Super Algae advantages?
• Helps naturally eradicate filamentous and matted blue-green algae as well as silicate diatoms from reservoirs, irrigation systems, and from the soil surface.
• Increases soil aggregation through cation bridging.
• Facilitates water infiltration
• Improves root development
• Increases ease of soil tillage.
• Helps dissolve and dissipate soil salts.
• Provides mucilage to plant roots.
• Fixes nitrogen from the air and converts it to a form more accessible to plants
• Decreases phosphorous loss and converts it to a form more accessible to plants
• Provides the soil with essential minerals and various organic chemical compounds.
Super Algae benefits?
• Ease of usage.
• Improved soil vigor.
• Improved soil structure.
• Helps clean irrigation systems.
• Helps optimize water usage.
How does Super Algae work?
• Osmoticants present in Super Algae are able to help dissolve soil salts.
• Exopolysaccarides in Super Algae can improve soil structure and aggregation through reduction, oxidation and cation exchange.
• Autoecological Succession allows Super Algae to competitively exclude nuisance algae such as filamentous blue-greens.
• Reverse Eutrophication is a mechanism by which adding Super Algae that is a member of the bottom of the food chain can reverse the aging of an irrigation system or reservoir.
• Lipidification happens when Super Algae is able to provide lipids to the soil to increase the level of gelatinous substances present and protect plant roots.
• Enzymatic Activity in Super Algae helps convert N, P, K and micronutrients into metabolically accessible forms. The beneficial bacteria present may be able to degrade proteins, starch, and cellulose.