A Guide to Using Humic Acid For Your Indoor Gardening

Michael Straumietis
Wondering if you can get bigger flowers and bigger yields from your indoor gardening? Humic acid is the answer. Humic acid is an all-organic formula based on one of the richest sources of plant nutrients ever made by Mother Nature.

Humic acids are a family of compounds that create the dark, rich soil you see in the most fertile, pristine areas where trees and plants are growing in their natural habitat.

To give you the full benefits of humic acid in your indoor growing, you first have to find a high quality source of humic acid. This is challenging, because the highest concentrations of humic acids are found in a premium geologic material called leonardite. There are various quality levels of leonardite. Most companies that sell humic acid use low quality leonardite or other materials to source the leonardite from.

But you can readily find companies that use the gold standard premium leonardite and then extract a very high percentage and range of superior humic acid from it.

This type of humic acid is called "H-2." When you put this humic acid into your hydroponics nutrients regimen, your plants get many of the same organic pluses they would get if they were growing outdoors in the most fertile places on earth.


For one thing, H-2 forms a protective, strengthening bond with your plants' roots. The result is the roots take in nutrients much better than they normally would. Moreover, the humic acid helps those nutrients travel more quickly and effectively inside the plants cell walls so their cellular metabolism increases.

Humic acids protect plants from stress and drought because humic acids make root zones safer and more able to withold and release nutrients and moisture.

At the same time, humic acids help plants have stronger cells so drought, heat and other stress are less able to damage your plants.

Many hydroponics gardeners use H-2 to pre-treat rockwool and other sterile root zone media before they start using it, because humic acids are known to buffer and stabilize materials so they are more in the correct pH range your plants need.

And be sure to use lots of humic acid during peak flowering phase so your plants are better able to resist stress while creating bigger flowers and bigger yields from your indoor gardening.

Ready to increase the health and yield of your garden using humic acids? H-2 humic acids give you the boost that you are looking for, so you increase the yield and quality of your hydroponics garden.
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Michael Straumietis

Hello. My name is Michael Straumietis. I am the co-founder of Advanced Nutrients, an international marketer and manufacturer of agricultural, home & garden, hydroponics plant nutrients and soil less fertilizers. With an inherent green thumb, I began studying and practicing gardening & hydroponics at a very early age. In university, I explored the fundamental processes of plant life at the molecular level. After years of perfecting my knowledge and skills, I formed Advanced Nutrients to share my expertise in hydroponics, plant nutrition and soil science. In my spare time, I love to work in my garden and yard and I also have a small greenhouse where I experiment with new formulas and techniques. I also publish my knowledge in short original papers with a focus on accelerating growth, increasing yield, and improving soil-plant interaction. If you would like my free newsletter, sign up now. I look forward to sharing my knowledge with you here at American Chronicle and making new, lifelong friends. Good luck!