shades
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Hey Guys,
I'm spraying on a foliar mix of 2:5 kelp to humic acid with a little bit of yucca to help act as a wetting agent. I put it in my sprayer which worked for about 2 seconds then started spurting out instead of spraying a fine mist as it does with clean water. It's a little 0.75L electric hand sprayer. When I loosen the tip on it it will just stream a jet but when it clogs up it doesn't really do that, it just kind of dribbles. I mixed just a liter of solution, so roughly 0.30 grams of kelp and 0.75 grams of humic acid with 0.15~grams of yucca extract. I put the remainder of the contents of the sprayer bottle through a coffee filter and it looks like a lot of that 0.75 of a gram of humic acid is just sitting in the filter. Before putting it in the filter I brought the temperature of the solution to 25 centigrade hoping that extra heat would get it to dissolve into the water. I got 5 lbs of this bullshit here hopefully that's water soluble like I thought it was. Didn't think 30 fucking micron sized particles would clog a damn sprayer. I didn't get any fulvic acid because it seems to be way more than the humic acid and I'm broke right now. I'm waiting for the rest of the contents of the coffee filter to finish straining so I can tare out my scale with a blank filter and drop that one on to see how much humic acid didn't get into my plants. Maybe 2:2 or 2:3 instead of 2:5 like the target ratio I'm shooting for.
What can I do to remedy the situation and make use of my remaining humic acid? Just soil feed it instead? Does it get absorbed that way?
I'm spraying on a foliar mix of 2:5 kelp to humic acid with a little bit of yucca to help act as a wetting agent. I put it in my sprayer which worked for about 2 seconds then started spurting out instead of spraying a fine mist as it does with clean water. It's a little 0.75L electric hand sprayer. When I loosen the tip on it it will just stream a jet but when it clogs up it doesn't really do that, it just kind of dribbles. I mixed just a liter of solution, so roughly 0.30 grams of kelp and 0.75 grams of humic acid with 0.15~grams of yucca extract. I put the remainder of the contents of the sprayer bottle through a coffee filter and it looks like a lot of that 0.75 of a gram of humic acid is just sitting in the filter. Before putting it in the filter I brought the temperature of the solution to 25 centigrade hoping that extra heat would get it to dissolve into the water. I got 5 lbs of this bullshit here hopefully that's water soluble like I thought it was. Didn't think 30 fucking micron sized particles would clog a damn sprayer. I didn't get any fulvic acid because it seems to be way more than the humic acid and I'm broke right now. I'm waiting for the rest of the contents of the coffee filter to finish straining so I can tare out my scale with a blank filter and drop that one on to see how much humic acid didn't get into my plants. Maybe 2:2 or 2:3 instead of 2:5 like the target ratio I'm shooting for.
What can I do to remedy the situation and make use of my remaining humic acid? Just soil feed it instead? Does it get absorbed that way?