The problem we solve
Soil Food builds a living soil that feeds plants all season - but sometimes a grower wants a faster, more direct response: a transplant settling in, a mid-season push, a houseplant that needs a lift. Plant Food is that fast, direct feed.
Bottom line: Soil Food is the season-long foundation; Plant Food is the quick, direct boost on top.
What Plant Food is
A fast-acting liquid plant nutrition concentrate - you dilute it with water and apply it as a foliar spray or a root drench. It carries both quick-release nutrition (to feed the plant fast) and slow-release nutrition (to feed the soil's microbes over time). It's a secondary line - Soil Food is the flagship - but it's the natural companion that completes the system.
Bottom line: it's the liquid, plant-directed half of OrganiLock's two-product system - where Soil Food feeds the soil, Plant Food feeds the plant.
How it's made
Plant Food comes from OrganiLock's "circle-of-life" approach - produced from animal mortality through a proprietary liquid-extraction process, turning what would be waste into plant nutrition. (Keep it at that level - the process internals are proprietary.)
Bottom line: the same waste-to-resource philosophy as Soil Food, in a liquid form.
How to use it
- Dilute 1/2 oz of Plant Food per gallon of water.
- Apply as a foliar spray (on the leaves, for fast uptake) or a root drench (at the root zone).
- Weekly, or as needed. It's a concentrate - a little goes a long way, and it suits any plant.
Bottom line: 1/2 oz per gallon, foliar or drench, weekly.
The two-product system - the key positioning
The most important way to position Plant Food: not as a standalone, but as the partner that completes the system. Each OrganiLock product does two jobs, so two products cover four functions:
- Soil Food - (1) soil amendment + (2) top-dress fertilizer.
- Plant Food - (1) foliar spray + (2) root drench.
Two products, four functions, every growing scenario - trees, turf, farm fields, raised beds, houseplants. For a retailer, that's less shelf space and lower inventory; for a grower, a complete program without a shelf full of inputs.
Selling translation: "Soil Food builds the kitchen; Plant Food is the quick meal. Soil Food sets up the living soil that feeds your plants all season; Plant Food is the fast, direct feed for when you want a quicker response. Most growers use both."
Who to sell it to - and how
Plant Food is almost always a companion sell - reach for it whenever you've recommended Soil Food:
- Home gardeners and houseplant owners - the easy weekly boost that pairs with Soil Food.
- Market gardeners and farms - the mid-growth feed (the large bottle), used with Soil Food in the field.
- Retailers - the second half of a two-SKU program that covers their whole organic-gardening section.
Bottom line: don't sell Plant Food alone - sell the system, and Plant Food is half of it.
Why it stands out
Most liquid feeds do one thing: dump soluble nutrients on the plant. Plant Food carries both quick-release nutrition for the plant AND slow-release nutrition that feeds the soil's microbes - so even the fast feed supports the living soil. It's biologically derived (circle-of-life), dual-use (foliar or drench), and it's the liquid half of a coherent two-product system no competitor matches.
Bottom line: it's a fast feed that still feeds the soil - and it completes a system, not just a bottle.
It complements - it never replaces
Plant Food is the companion to Soil Food, full stop. It does NOT replace Soil Food, and a grower using Soil Food doesn't need Plant Food - they choose it when they want a faster, direct feed. Position it as the "and," never the "or."
Bottom line: always "Soil Food and Plant Food," never "Plant Food instead of Soil Food."
The proof, honestly
In OrganiLock's 8-acre soybean field trial, the two products were used together - Soil Food pellets broadcast before planting, Plant Food sprayed mid-growth - and yields exceeded both the Kentucky and US estimated averages. That's the system working as designed. (Company-reported; never "peer-reviewed.")
How to talk about Plant Food (read this first)
- Plant Food is NOT organic - never call it "organic," "OMRI Listed," or "certified" in any form. This is a hard rule: a false organic claim is a regulatory and trust problem.
- If a customer needs an organic-certified input, route them to Soil Food (the OMRI-Listed product) - never Plant Food.
- Don't quote an NPK from memory - it's on the label and Certificate of Analysis.
- Don't describe the process internals - "a proprietary liquid-extraction process" is the most you say.
- Sizes and prices always come from the live catalog; position it as the companion to Soil Food, never a replacement; trial figures are fixed and company-reported.
