Questions, answered straight.

A volcanic mineral water conditioner for agricultural and irrigation use: an aqueous solution of twenty-nine measured elements, drawn out of weathered volcanic biotite mica and dissolved in purified water. Ninety-nine percent purified water, one percent ionic mineral salts.

You add it to your water. It is not a fertilizer and not a pesticide — rather than acting on the plant or the soil directly, it changes the mineral chemistry of the water that everything in your soil works in.

Ninety-nine percent purified water, one percent ionic mineral salts. Inside that one percent: sulfur as the dominant constituent, then iron, magnesium, potassium, calcium, manganese and zinc, with a further set of elements present below one milligram per liter. All of it in sulfate form — dissolved and carrying a charge, not suspended as particles, which is what makes it plant-available.

Twenty-nine elements have been individually quantified across the certificates of analysis — twenty-five on the mother solution these products are diluted from, four more resolved in the retail panel. The arithmetic is published in full. The black mica they come from carries more than forty documented elements, and in 2007 Eric Moeller, then president of The Vermiculite Association, put its potential inventory as high as eighty; what we publish is what was measured. Zero synthetic chemicals and no detectable toxic heavy metals on independent ICP-MS screening. Every quantified value is on the technical specifications page, and the certificates themselves are in the public archive.

No, and the dose is the reason. Biostimulants add something — microbes, humic acid, seaweed extract — in quantities meant to act on the plant or the soil. This is diluted on the order of one part in ten thousand, far too little to supply anything.

It acts on the conditions the other inputs move through rather than on the plant itself. That is a different level of action, not a better version of the same one — which is also why the reports describe an effect even on soils that are already well fertilized.

A fertilizer supplies nutrients. This supplies almost nothing — at label dilution no element in it approaches a fertilizer dose, and the sum of all of them together could not feed a plant.

What the field record describes instead is a change in how the mineral inventory your soil already holds behaves: many elements becoming more available at once, rather than one delivered in bulk. Use it alongside your existing fertilizer program or on its own; it is not a replacement for feeding your soil.

Chemists have known since 1888 that dissolved ions affect water in systematically different ways. Some ions tighten water's hydrogen-bond network and stabilize the hydration shells around proteins, enzymes and membranes; others loosen it. Primora Bio is unusually concentrated in the first kind — sulfate above all, then magnesium, iron and calcium.

That is also the mechanism behind something every grower has noticed: plants respond better to rain than to irrigation. Rain has contacted rock and soil and arrives carrying a mineral character that processed water has lost.

Three mechanisms are proposed — redox, ion exchange and hydration — and we call them proposals because that is what they are. They are set out in full on The Science. We no longer use the phrase 'water coherence': it is not a defined property in water chemistry, and we would rather name the mechanisms.

Two ways, both through water. Irrigation water: half a fluid ounce (15 ml) per 5 gallons of tap, well or surface water, or per 10 gallons of RO or distilled water, at every watering. Foliar spray: half a fluid ounce per gallon, every one to two weeks through the growing season.

Mix thoroughly and let the treated water stand 30 minutes before use. Never apply it undiluted. Rates for drip lines, hydroponic reservoirs and seed soaking are in the application guide.

Yes, and this is worth understanding. It works catalytically rather than nutritionally. A nutrient's benefit climbs with dose and then levels off; a catalyst's rises, plateaus, and then falls past the optimum as excess begins to interfere. That rise-plateau-fall curve is exactly what this followed in both wastewater and photosynthesis testing.

So more is not better. It is also why the foliar and irrigation rates are different numbers: irrigation water is dosed lower than foliar spray because drip lines and recirculating reservoirs run continuously. Use the rate for the method.

Yes. It tank-mixes directly with most fertilizers, biological inputs and soil amendments. The exception is high-pH sprayed inputs — lime sulfur, Bordeaux mixture, hydrated lime, potassium silicate and the like. Alkaline conditions drop the minerals out of solution, so those go on in a separate pass rather than in the same tank.

At the other end, do not run it into a line at the same moment acid is being injected. Growers who inject sulfuric, phosphoric or urea-sulfuric acid for bicarbonate or emitter scale are putting a very low-pH stream through the system; stage the two separately.

If you are combining it in-line with an existing fertigation schedule, confirm compatibility with your other inputs first, as you would with any addition.

Yes — drip, sprinkler, pivot, flood, fertigation and inline injection. No system modifications and no special equipment. Add it to your water source at the recommended dilution.

Yes. Add to your reservoir at the irrigation rate — half a fluid ounce per 5 gallons, or per 10 gallons of RO water — mix thoroughly and let stand 30 minutes before circulating. Compatible with recirculating, drain-to-waste, NFT, DWC, aeroponic and ebb-and-flow systems, with no known interactions with standard nutrient solutions.

In aquaponic systems the ionic minerals are safe for fish. The earliest records around this chemistry include commercial aquaculture, where both fish growth and water quality were monitored.

A 32 fl oz bottle treats about 320 gallons of irrigation water (640 if it is RO or distilled), or about 64 gallons of foliar spray. The three-bottle bundle treats about 960 gallons of irrigation water, and the 2.5 gallon jug about 3,200. For larger operations, ask us and we will run the volume calculation for your acreage.

Through the growing season: in every watering, with a foliar spray every one to two weeks. When the season ends, stop, and start again when the next one begins.

Growers commonly report visible change in vigor, canopy and leaf color within two to four weeks. We publish that as what growers report rather than as what we promise, because it depends on your starting soil, your water and your crop.

We cannot tell you what to expect, and we will not. What we can tell you is what was reported: yield increases in the range of fifteen to thirty-eight percent across rice, strawberry, potato, tea, tomato and onion.

Those are historical field reports, largely single-operator and untranslated, not controlled trials — and a result obtained with one crop in one setting may not carry to another. The full record and its limits are on The Science.

A pilot inside a UNDP-assisted project (ROK/98/006) directed by Kwi-Gon Kim at Seoul National University, published in its March 2000 final report, studied this mineral chemistry in rice paddy and ecosystem monitoring with treatment and control plots. It is the most methodologically solid item in the record, and it includes work on salt-damaged coastal farmland — degraded ground rather than healthy ground, which is a different and harder test.

We want to be precise about what that means. Being studied under an institutional project is not being validated by that institution. We have previously seen this described as United Nations validation. It is not, and we do not claim it.

We do not claim that, because there is no field data behind it. The idea follows from the mechanism — a plant drawing more fully on what is already present would need less added on top — but that is inference, not evidence, and we are not going to put a percentage on it.

It is the study we would fund first, and it is listed as an outstanding question on The Science rather than sold as a benefit. If you do choose to trial a reduction, change one thing at a time and keep the rest of your program constant.

A 1995 technical report from the Instituto de Ingeniería at UNAM in Mexico City, testing across a concentration range, reported up to forty percent more photosynthetic electron transport. That same testing produced the rise-plateau-fall curve that distinguishes a catalyst from a nutrient.

There is a plausible mechanism, and it is unusually ordinary: the photosynthetic electron transport chain is built out of manganese, iron and copper — three of the metals in this solution. The same metals build the enzymes that protect a leaf from its own photosynthesis, which is why higher electron transport and lower oxidative stress turn up together.

It is ninety-nine percent purified water and one percent natural ionic mineral salts from volcanic rock. No synthetic chemicals, and no detectable toxic heavy metals on independent ICP-MS screening — lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic and thallium all below the detection limit of the method.

It is not a pesticide and contains nothing designed to kill anything. As with any undiluted mineral solution, keep the bottle out of reach and follow the label.

The toxic thing and the thing in this bottle are not the same species. What poisons roots is free Al³⁺, and free Al³⁺ dominates only in acidic, simple-salt systems below about pH 5.5. Here the aluminum sits in a concentrated sulfate matrix, where it forms hydroxy-sulfate and polynuclear complexes rather than bare ions — the same complexed, polymerized aluminum that poly-aluminum water-treatment coagulants are built from. That form flocculates clay; it does not poison roots.

In a calcareous, alkaline soil — the typical case — the elevated pH drives it further toward insoluble hydroxide forms, further from anything harmful. In an already-acidic sodic soil that buffering is weaker and it would be worth checking for; we mention it for completeness, because across more than two decades of use on crops and soils around the world phytotoxicity has not emerged.

Worth keeping the scale in view too: aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, so any broad extract of volcanic rock carries it, and at label dilution the delivered quantity is negligible against what is already in your soil. The full answer and the measured figures are on the technical specifications page.

It contains no synthetic additives, no detectable toxic heavy metals and nothing genetically modified. The elements are drawn from volcanic rock using sulfuric acid as the extraction reagent, so we describe it as naturally sourced and minimally processed rather than as a natural product.

Organic certification is decided by your certifier, not by us, and standards vary. Ask them before you assume it qualifies for your program — we will supply the full specification sheet for them to assess.

Yes, and food crops are where much of the record comes from. The trial reports describe less of what is applied to a plant accumulating inside its tissue rather than more. Follow the label rate and rinse produce as you normally would.

No. It is a mineral solution, so it does not degrade, expire or lose potency over time. Store it sealed at room temperature — no refrigeration needed. Stable indefinitely.

At the irrigation rate a 32 oz bottle treats about 320 gallons, roughly $0.19 per gallon of irrigation water. The three-bottle bundle brings that to $0.16 and the 2.5 gallon jug to $0.13. Foliar spray, at five times the concentration, works out to $0.94, $0.78 and $0.63 a gallon.

We deliberately do not publish a comparison against what you currently spend on conventional inputs. Doing that would require yield data we do not yet have, and we would rather show you our own numbers than a favorable comparison built on assumptions.

Themarox is never sold directly to a consumer. It is the raw material from which we produce our finished retail products. It is sold only to companies who produce such products.

Yes. Volume pricing starts at 10 gallons, with no long-term commitment. Get in touch with your acreage or system size and we will quote it.

Currently we ship within the United States. International distribution is in progress — if you are outside the U.S., contact us and we will do what we can.

We stand behind it. If it is not doing what you hoped within the expected timeframe, contact us and we will work it through with you — sometimes that means adjusting how you are applying it, and sometimes it means processing a return.

If you are in the European Union, you also have a statutory right to withdraw from your purchase — use the EU withdrawal form.