What is Baicor?

Baicor is a specialty fertilizer company that manufactures products for Agriculture, Home and Garden, and Turf. The plant is owned and operated in Logan, Utah, and all products are manufactured in the USA. Many products are designed for application on the leaves (foliar) but nutrients for the soil are also available. Facilitators are added to all nutrients to assist in uptake, translocation, and plant development.

What are Facilitators?

Organic acids, amino acids, carbohydrates, and other natural products are used by certain plants to form chelates, increase uptake through leaf cuticle or root, translocate to various parts of the plant and increase the effectiveness for growth and development. Such components are added to Baicor products to facilitate these same actions.

What are Chelates?

Certain Nutrients such as iron, zinc, copper, manganese, etc. are often fixed in the soil and made unavailable to plants. Chelates (a word meaning claw) are compounds that hold nutrients from soil fixation and release them on uptake for plant use.

Natural chelates are components such as organic acids and amino acids that are recognized by the plant, can be broken down and the nutrients released; the chelating substances can then be used for energy by the plant.

Synthetic Chelates (EDTA, EDDHA, etc) may at times be harmful to plant growth and development. Their use as a foliar is questionable.

What does the Plant require

for Growth and Development?

Plants are remarkable organisms; they require sunlight (for photosynthesis), carbon dioxide (to make the myriad of compounds needed for growth and development), water, air, and 13 mineral nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, SULFUR, magnesium, calcium, iron, manganese, zinc, copper, boron, chlorine, and molybdenum). A healthy plant with these components is able to grow and develop; it makes its own vitamins, fats, proteins, etc. required for its metabolism.

Why use a foliar?

Foliar application is the economical and effective way of providing the nutrients in a usable form, thus eliminatingsoil fixation.

Foliar application does not replace good soil management but supplements it in cases where soil nutrient fixation takes place or nutrients are required by the plant at a particular time for growth and development. Baicor's foliars are specially designed for foliar use as well as soil application. Our foliars are specifically designed to put the desired nutrients from the specified product into the plant through the leaf. The foliars are absorbed immediately (within hours) to help provide needed nutrients for growth, color, stamina, quality of plant, flower and fruit or vegetable. Use of foliars helps stimulate roots to take nutrients from the soil.

How are Baicor micronutrients different from other?

Our micronutrients have added facilitators which chelate nutrients in their usable form and help translocate them to the sites of growth and development. These facilitators are natural components such as organic acids, amino acids, and carbohydrates. They are compatible with other components such as phosphorus, and have a long shelf life.

Not all products are created the same. For example, Iron Chelate may look the same from a customer standpoint (the name) but there are many differences, such as raw materials used (ingredients) for effectiveness. Compatibility with other products, does it mix with other nutrients? Is the product chelated or complexed? (complexed is another word for weak chelate in simple terms). Micronutrients may also differ as to uptake, translocation and effectiveness.

What Baicor Fertilizers are available?

All nutrients required by the plant are available as single nutrients or in combination with other nutrients. Often certain soil conditions, such as high pH, cause a deficiency of micronutrients. Baicor provides a product (COMBO) containing all micronutrients in chelated form to alleviate this problem. A complete fertilizer containing all nutrients (Gold Star) is available for vegetables, flowers, shrubs, etc. Fertilizers are formulated to increase blooming and fruit set (Uptake); to use in starting plants in pots, hanging baskets, etc. (Nutra Gel and Nutra Green); to increase germination and seedling growth (Plant Starter and NBE); to improve soils (Soil Stimulator), etc.

What is a chelate?

Natural chelates have a high binding capacity or stability which permits micro nutrients like iron, copper and calcium to mix with other macro-nutrients. There is accumulation of residues in plant or in the soil with synthetic chelates such as EDTA or HEDTA. Depending on the chelate it will influence effectiveness of nutrient or product. There are natural chelates that the plant can utilize within the plant as an energy or food source as well as protect the nutrient until the nutrient is released to the plant. Synthetic chelates may chelate nutrients but there are concerns about burning plants as a foliar as well as concerns of what happens to the synthetic chelate once it has released the nutrient (it cannot be broken down by the plant). A synthetic chelate once in the plant may release a nutrient but immobilize another essential nutrient.