BlueGold® Base Blend (OMRI Listed Wetting Agent)

OMRI LISTED WETTING AGENT –
DERIVED FROM: PLANTS STRONG IN SAPONINS

WHAT CAN WETTING AGENTS DO FOR YOU?

Wetting Agents are a proven crop management tool. Wetting Agents, or surfactants, make water wetter, thereby increasing water penetration into the soil deeper and broader. As Agriculture’s most used carrier liquid, water mixes with materials infinitely more efficiently when water tension is reduced using wetting agents. Additionally, as the water penetrates deeper and broader into the soil, the nutrients it carries also penetrate deeper and broader. This gains an immediate benefit in reduced runoff and reduced burn-off of nutrients, and in the case of soil with proper biological levels, the nutrients are taken deeper straight to the biology and quicker, more efficient processing.

Additionally, wetter water is also known to break down salt bonds and petrol bonds and more quickly hydrate dry soils. Unfortunately, most wetting agents on the shelf today are formulated from harsh, caustic detergents or ethoxylated surfactants. These introduce harsh pH solutions into your soil or combat your reservoir pH levels. Additionally, these types have questionable safety concerns.

Please note, Wetting Agents ‘mine’ the soil and help bring nutrition up through the root system. You must put back into the soil what the plants take out in their growing cycle, or the yields, results, and immunity will taper off.

ABOUT BLUEGOLD® BASE BLEND:

Our BlueGold® Base Blend is an Organic Wetting Agent that is NOP Compliant and OMRI Listed. Base Blend undergoes our trade secret Eden Synergy process and is formulated from select herbs strong in saponin levels. BlueGold® Base Blend saponins are derived from: Aloe, Angelica, Bhringaraj Leaf, Black Cumin Seed, Kola Leaf, Butcher’s Broom, Calendula, Chamomile, Cardamom, Comfrey, Dandelion Root, Eucalyptus, Fennel, Ginger, Ginseng Root, Hibiscus, Maca Root, Moringa Leaf, and Yucca Root.

WHAT SETS BLUEGOLD® BASE BLEND APART FROM OTHER SAPONIN PRODUCTS?

Of those who recognize the benefit of plant-derived saponins over caustic detergents, unfortunately, the market pretty much only offers saponins of the Yucca plant. Here at Eden, we do not settle for the norm or the ‘easiest.’ We discovered that there is a structural variety of saponins derived from various plants. The number of saccharide chains attached to the sapogenin cores can vary, as can the length of the chains. The cores can also be one of many polycyclic organic structures originating from carbon terpenes. What does this mean to you? Certain varieties have been established in plant ecology to serve as antifeedants and protect plants against microbes and fungi, while some have enhanced nutrient absorption and digestion aid in animals. Saponins have a range of industrial uses depending on the structured variety. Rather than just utilizing a single plant source and singular structure, we have researched and used 19 plant sources for saponins to give you a comprehensive and wide variety of saponin structures for superior saponin benefits.

Today, the average soil in American farms can only hold approximately 16,500 gallons of water per acre due to improper soil conditions. One inch of rainfall produces 27,154 gallons of water per acre! That is an extreme water loss. By correcting the soil through BlueGold® saponin enhanced Wetting Agents, the water holding capacity of your soil can be significantly increased!

COVERAGE:

With any BlueGold® Solution, you must cover the entire plant to a drip (fruit, leaves [especially on the bottom], stalk, stem, super-structure, etc.). Spray pressure and nozzles change as the growth changes on the crop throughout its growing season. Your field spray operator needs to spray 50′ or so. And we highly recommend getting off and inspecting the coverage, digging through the canopy, and then adjusting the pressure or nozzles as necessary. Many growers make the big mistake of not double-checking the application results. A few moments to check IS the difference in saving or losing a crop. BlueGold® can only work on a crop as well as it is applied. We recommend TJ60-8010VS nozzles and has an 80-degree fan and sprays 1 gallon per minute. Lesser degrees (example 60) have heavier droplets, so the wind does not interfere with the spray and is primarily meant to spray the soil. The 80-degree nozzle has a finer mist, so the droplets bounce all over and get optimum foliage coverage on a foliar spray. Lesser degrees can also require higher pressure (for example, 90 PSI) to get full function, and our recommendation requires 30-60 PSI (2-4 bar).

APPLICATION RECOMMENDATIONS:

For best results, this product must be used in conjunction with a proper Soil and Sap Test Analysis and applied according to test results for the crop type, crop height, and PPM change required. Properly balancing nutrients by simultaneously lowering all excess and raising all deficient nutrient PPMs is critical to long-lasting beneficial results in any crop.

Depending on the change needed, possible rates are as follows: If by foliar, 16 to 64 fl. oz. per acre with a minimum of 21 gallons of water. For use in smaller environments, use 0.5-1 fl. oz. per one gallon of clean water. If by fertigation injection, 1 to 3 fl. oz. per acre. If by aerial, 32 fl. oz. per 5 gallons of water used per acre. If by pivot or wheel line, apply at 100% ground speed, then resume normal ground speed watering. It can be applied in all weather conditions, including rain and extreme heat. The best spray time is early morning when dew is present. Rates subject to excesses, i.e., salts, chlorides, metals, sulfur, etc.

CAUTION: BASE BLEND MAGNIFIES WHAT IT COMES INTO CONTACT WITH.

BlueGold® Base Blend is an OMRI-listed Input (please contact your certifier before use). Wetting Agents are known to increase soil penetration and plant uptake of nutrients from fertilizers and amendments. When using Wetting Agents, nutrients must be significantly reduced and slowly dialed up to prevent burning plants from excesses in the flush. Manufacturer recommendation is to reduce inputs by 90%+/-. Use according to Soil and Sap Test Analysis documented soil or plant deficiency. Must be stored in a cool place. Do not combine with pesticides, chemicals, plant cleaners, etc.

Do not use with synthetically enhanced or grow media with excesses of Na Sodium, Chlorides, Aluminum, Sulfur, Magnesium, Potassium, NO3/NH4, Iron, and Boron with BlueGold®. We strongly recommend avoiding ocean-based products high in Na Sodium, Chlorides, and other salts with our Solutions and Sulfur-based products, salt, and heavy metal humus, manures (primarily commercial), and composts (especially mushroom, dead animal, etc.), etc. These inputs are upside down with excesses. The BlueGold® Grow System is based on balanced Nutritionals. By itself, BlueGold®, at recommended rates using Apical Testing, will not harm ANY crop, plant, biology, system, human, animal, environment, pollinator, or beneficial (including birds, butterflies, earthworms, etc.). Do NOT combine with pesticides/chemicals/plant cleaners/etc. Very recent or current use of chemicals like fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, algaecides, bactericides, miticides, pesticides, biocides, fumigants, plant growth regulators, pH Up/Down chemicals, dyes, etc., – all can cause an unfavorable interaction due to the Wetting Agent properties of BlueGold® Solutions, which can magnify the strength of said chemical. Strengthened doses of those chemicals can result in direct stress, burning, or death of plants. BlueGold® Solutions by themselves, at recommended rates, without chemical interactions, will never cause these issues in any plant or soil (when used as directed). Users must respect BlueGold® labels and manufacturer warnings to not combine with chemical/synthetic/excess element inputs by +/- 90%. It is the user’s choice against our directions/recommendations. If you encounter problems in the plants from the previously mentioned by your choice, STOP. If you quickly move the pH to 6.4 with the help of pH adjusters, without adjusting inputs, you’re drastically making inputs more available, which results in stressed, burned, or dead plants from too big of a hit from the nutrients that are now available at a much higher % than previously. This is especially true when all the chemical/synthetic/excesses stored up flood the plants at even higher EC/PPM values. Likewise, if you do not adjust inputs while using BlueGold®, as soil/sap pH is driven to 6.4, the same can happen over an extended period depending on soil and watering conditions. Store in a cool place.

As the manufacturer, we offer a 100% Guarantee when used as directed, within the Eden Guaranteed Grow Program. A limited guarantee restricted to exclusive use with BlueGold® products and systems subject to the Apical soil, sap, water testing conditions, and Postal damages. No warranty or fitment of purpose promised.