Fulvic Update:
Yesterday, I sprayed the clones n' veg. plants w/ 6mL/L (23mL/gallon) solution
of BioAg Ful-Power. I used a touch over the recommended limit, which for foliar
application is 20mL/gallon. It is very cost-effective, even for cheapskates like
myself, when applied as a foliar at the maximum recommended dose, weekly.
Here's the Island Sweet Skunk clone:
It darkened several shades of green overnight. I have a picture of this plant two
posts up, you can clearly see the difference. Leaf blotching disappeared. I'd have
thought it was a fluke if not for:
The foliage on my Purple Elephant clone did the same thing. Clearly, it improves,
at the very least, N and possibly Fe uptake. I had read about it's wondrous work on
delivering chelated/complexed nutrients but I had expected an improvement over a
week or two, not within 18 hours.
I'd swear it looks like the flowering plants had gotten 10% bigger overnight after
their fulvic root drench yesterday, but that's, like, half wishful thinking on my part.
I'm going to continue with 4mL/L root drench on the flowering plants and report
my findings. The flowering plants are probably too far along to spray (botrytis risk).
I don't want to say much more, lest I start sounding like a shill for BioAg. But:
I have liked most of GH's products, but their Fulvic line, Diamond Nectar, has a
concentration of 0.01% fulvics. Ful-Power was 0.06%.
Botanicare's
Fulvex doesn't
even list it's concentration, which is unacceptable. I'd rather buy the watered down
stuff, since it's a known quantity. Don't much care for unknown variables.
...which brings me to my next point: We as growers should demand more transparency
in our nutrients/supplements/additives. Yeah sure,
Roots Excelurator doesn't have any
PGR's and Snow Storm Ultra is just a K supplement...In fact, our whole fertilizer law
system seems woefully anachronistic, and I'm just a hobbyist, man. I'm sure someone more
educated on fertilizer jurisprudence can chime in here...
I'm rarely the person who says "there ought to be a law" but here, I'd love to see a guaranteed
analysis on every agricultural/horticultural product listing EVERY ingredient. I'd never have
thought in a million years that the USDA should be involved in my Cannabis garden, but here
we are, post legalization in CO.