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IMHO foliar feeding is mostly an indoor thing where you are worried about root zone ph causing problems. Outdoors in the ground with natural soils or amended natural soils foliar feeding would be a hassle and not much benefit.
compost tea is really great. you can make a pretty inexpensive compost tea brewer with a 20 dollar air pump and 5 dollar air stone. can be made inside of a large trash can or anything that would hold water really. paint strainer bags from the hardware store or wedding veil material has the best mesh for putting your compost into. adding a couple handfuls of worm castings would be good too. the more variety of compost you can use the better, maybe a mix of store bought and some from your back yard. brew for 24 hours. i also add a little bit of maxicrop soluble seaweed powder at this point (after it has brewed). the compost tea must be used right away within 12 hours.
i use a gilmour sprayer and spray weekly in vegetative outdoors. amazing results. can't say enough good things about compost tea. really magical stuff. if you can use RO water, that would be best.
I always give my plants a weekly foliar feeding outdoors. It gives them a big boost in growth rate, sap levels, and yield from what I have seen. Doing it regularly can literally add pounds to your harvest.
This last season for veg I used Liquid Karma, Nitrex and Pure Blend Pro Grow. For transition, I did Liquid Karma, Cal Mag Plus and Nitrozyme. It helps give them a nice boost if you foliar a bit during early flower too. I always foliar with Pure Blend Pro Grow, Liquid Karma, and if my K+ levels are low, Nitrozyme. A lot of nutrients out now have foliar feeding directions on them so many of the products you may be familiar with already could work.
From what I've seen the roots will keep up with the canopy growth as well. The only thing you need to watch out for with foliar spraying is that sometimes you can get your EC too high if you over-do it.
Another nice thing about foliar feeding is that you can feed your plants with much less nutrients than if you were to do a soil drench. For example, it takes 300 gallons to soil drench all my plants. If I foliar feed I can do it with about 50-75 gallons so it is VERY cost effective. This is very important when using expensive products like the Nitrozyme and Liquid Karma. Also, about 90%+ of the nutrients are absorbed when foliar fed, vs. only about 10% when applied as a soil drench.
I was answering from strictly a guerilla grower point of view. If the person was carrying in 300 gallons of water to just water and 70 gallons to foliar spray with they would be better off just watering with 370 gallons of water. That extra water is crucial.
If you can root feed a plant until it shows tip burn (you know it has enough) how can foliar feed add anything else?
i just baught the liquid karma and few weeks back the nitrozime. i was suing the nitrozime but then read about all the gilliberines(spelling) and auxins in it and got worried about spraying with it weekly. do u just use the recomended dosage for the liquid karma?
is there any teas i can just buy and not have to brew?
Kelp extract alone is a fantastic foliar, if you just want a little something to start with. Products I don't recommend are fish emulsion and molasses--both applied as foliar can be a little problematic depending on the situation. I did it once with some girls outside our bedroom and I could not sleep that whole night for the stink. Molasses applied as a foliar seems to attract more bugs and dirt.
Whatever I have on hand. Right now it's Liquid Kelp extract from PVFS, I think it's a bull kelp extract. Before I was using Maxicrop, I think it was. Smelled delicious, kind of like a super-rich soyu sauce. I can't remember what kelp they use, I think they just call it "Norwegian kelp", as though there is only one specie of kelp in Norway. Getting ready to order up both types of kelp (the liquid), this time also gonna get some Algamin liquid.... or dry, I haven't decided. I like the solubility of liquid, but it weighs more, ya know?what kind of seaweed do you use?
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