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Old February 15, 2010   #6
rnewste
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Here is an answer from the President of the Company:

BiotaMax contains spores of the various organisms listed on the label. The exact number of spores is not that important because there are sufficient spores to treat the soil and as soon as the spores enter the soil they germinate and multiply and form more organisms. The tablet contains about one billion spores of each organism per gram of product but again, it is not important whether there are a billion or one hundred million of spores per gram as long as there are sufficient spores for the area to be treated. Bacillus subtilis is one of the organisms in the tablet and we have had very good responses with this organism when applied by itself.

The advantage of the tablet is that the Trichoderma spp are in a dry form and not in a liquid form. As a result we have a much longer shelf life and instead of 6 months we have a three year expiration for the tablets.

We have combined in the tablet all beneficial soil organisms so the results are very good, even if you do not need all the organisms in the tablet. Another advantage is the presence of Paenibacillus polymixa which fixes nitrogen from the air and thus supplies extra nitrogen to the plants. Another advantage is that most of these organisms are fungicides and thus prevent plant diseases. Of course we cannot officially make this claim because we would need an EPA registration as a pesticide but most people are aware of this advantage,

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