Super Lime Plus is made from ACTUAL Ag lime ....NOT Calcium Chloride!
Advanced Blending Technology
Maximum Crop Performance
Significant Soil Solutions
Long Lasting results
Is this Chloride?
NO! Super Lime Plus IS NOT CHLORIDE
The most common use for calcium chloride is ice melting.
Many of us have used calcium chloride in our tractor tires to keep them from freezing, lesson learned!
Difficult to stockpile because it is very corrosive, many municipalities have banned its use because it is also toxic to plant life and damages roads. Calcium chloride consists of one calcium ion and two chloride ions. When calcium chloride dissolves, three ions are created making it 50 % more concentrated than table salt.
Why Not Use Calcium Chloride?
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Chloride is the NUMBER ONE cause in plant TOXICITY
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Chloride will reduce yield and cause crop damage
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Chloride is NOT the best way to provide calcium to your land!
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Chloride will eventually damage your soil and plants!
Calcium chloride consists of one calcium ion and two chloride ions. When calcium chloride dissolves, three ions are created making it 50 % more concentrated than table salt.
Chloride pulls moisture away from the plant!
Effects of Chloride on Oats
Effects of Chloride on Soybean
Chloride Misconceptions
Yes, chloride is considered a micro-nutrient, and chloride does play a role in plant performance including photosynthesis, osmotic adjustment, and suppression of some plant diseases.
So the argument sounds as if calcium chloride offers two vital elements right?........ This is very misleading...
Calcium is a vital nutrient and chloride is utilized for the reasons mentioned above, HOWEVER, it is only needed in very small amounts! It's NEVER needed as an additive to a fertilizer program.
Calcium Chloride liquid will deliver calcium which plants need but CHLORIDE puts salt into the soil and on the plant. This actually draws moisture away from the plant.
When is the last time you heard of anyone buying a ton of chloride for their crop?
IMPORTANT:
Plants get the small amounts of the chloride they need naturally from the atmosphere, weathered rocks, rain, and groundwater.
Did you Know?
They also get some from common
fertilizers like "potash."
Muriate of potash alone contains almost 47% chloride and is one of the big reasons our soil falls out of balance and locks up.
PLANTS NEED CALCIUM:
But because the salts from chloride have a negative effect on the soil, in order to get the right amount of calcium to the plant, the application rate for liquid calcium chloride is anywhere from 2 to 3 gallons per acre.
This actually costs MORE than Super Lime Plus per acre!!
Calcium Chloride is cheap to make so it sells for less per gallon
However, you'll need to use more of it per acre so it cost
more per acre than using Super Lime Plus.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Whether it's now or later, putting that much chloride out will eventually damage the soil and plants, Calcium chloride is not the best way to provide calcium to your land.