Batallon 1-0-5
Organic Soil Biostimulant for Yield
Quality & Soil Activation

Overview

Batallón is a powerful organic soil biostimulant created through a specialized fermentation process that produces high-quality fulvic acids and a number of secondary metabolites—the bioactive compounds naturally excreted by microorganisms. Secondary Metabolites allow for the effects of microbials to be included without the microorganicms, allowing long-term stability and storage and providing a consistent and targeted agronomic effect.

Originally developed to increase fruit load, uniformity, and crop quality, Batallón has proven itself across many crops. Field results and grower experience show dramatic improvements, including cases where fruit clusters doubled in cherry tomato due to enhanced plant metabolism and nutrient availability.

Batallón is based on sugar cane molasses fermentation (in contrast to many Kimitec products being derived from sugar beet), giving it a broad and potent metabolic profile. It is particularly suited for use during fruiting stages, periods of high demand, stress, and seasons when soil conditions are unfavorable.

How Batallón Works

1. Secondary Metabolites (Microbial Fermentation Extracts)

  • Nitrifying action: Supports conversion of nitrogen into plant-available nitrate.
  • Phosphorus solubilization: Releases phosphate bound in the soil, improving uptake.
  • Potassium & trace element release: Helps mobilize K and micronutrients from the soil matrix.
  • Breakdown of organic matter: Fermentation-derived enzymes accelerate carbon turnover, releasing P & N.
  • Stress tolerance support: Helps plants maintain metabolic activity under cold, pH extremes, salinity, or heavy fruit load.
  • Metabolic activation: Increases enzymatic and biochemical activity leading to stronger, more productive crops.

2. High-Quality Fulvic Acids

  • Complex nutrient chelation for improved micronutrient uptake.
  • Better soil structure and improved water–soil interaction.
  • Root system support—larger, healthier root development under stress.
  • Microbial recovery of soil through improved biological balance.

Together, these two components create rapid soil activation and turn low-fertility, biologically weak soils into highly active growing environments. Batallón improves yield, crop precocity, fruit size, color, and overall harvest quality even under stressful conditions.

Key Functions & Agronomic Benefits

  • Boosts crop production and enhances the quality of harvests.
  • Increases soil biological activity through metabolites and organic catalysts.
  • Improves physico-chemical properties of the soil.
  • Activates root system metabolism and supports nutrient conversion.
  • Enhances fruit load, uniformity, and Brix in fruiting crops.
  • Supports crops under cold, pH stress, salinity, or poor rooting conditions.
  • Works rapidly due to fully soluble metabolite and fulvic acid fractions.

Application Timing

Batallón fits naturally into programs where plants are entering or are already in high nutrient demand phases. Ideal timings include:

  • Pre-flower and early flowering.
  • Fruit set and early fruit sizing.
  • Mid-cycle applications when soils are cold or biologically inactive.
  • Any period of plant stress or slow nutrient uptake.
  • Time of transition into high-load phases (e.g., cluster formation in tomatoes, fruit fill in melons).

Batallón can be used in open field, greenhouse, soil, and soilless environments. It integrates well alongside fertilizers and most biostimulants.

Why Growers Choose Batallón

  • Dramatic improvements in fruit load—especially in crops like tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, peppers, berries, and tree fruit.
  • Increased yield and quality even under suboptimal conditions.
  • Organic formulation suitable for programs seeking natural or microbial-based solutions.
  • Fast action thanks to fermentation-derived metabolites rather than slow biological colonization.
  • Compatible across crop types from vegetables to fruit trees to industrial crops.

Research-Backed Performance

Across multiple crops in the brochure, Batallón demonstrated:

  • +26% yield in apricot (Var. Alba)
  • +32.6% yield in lettuce (Var. Trocadero)
  • +11.3% higher Brix in melon pulp
  • +37.9% crop precocity in mini watermelon (Var. Mini F1)
  • +40.6% yield in industrial onion (Var. Grano de Oro)

These results highlight Batallón’s ability to improve both vegetative and reproductive performance across a wide range of crop systems.

 

Summary

  • Batallón® is a fermentation-based organic soil biostimulant containing secondary metabolites and high-quality fulvic acids.
  • Ideal for fruiting crops and periods when yield, quality, and nutrient uptake need maximum support.
  • Activates soil biology, improves nutrient conversion, and enhances plant metabolism.
  • Provides measurable increases in yield, precocity, Brix, and crop uniformity.