just because you are growing in soil dont mean you have to use shit with "organic" sounding names, there is nothing wrong with chemicals, humic acid is a chemical, the plants eat chemicals from these organic substances, they like the nitrogen in shit, but i dont think they can absorb sweetcorn?
Ok, technically
everything is a chemical. But that's not the direction some people are headed when they work with 'organics'. They/we are trying to get something that is as close to its natural, unadulterated form as possible. Humic acid is mined from leonardite and is ground down, that's fairly unadulterated (as a for instance). Since it's actually fossilized plant and animal matter, it is quite technically organic, no?
GOD I love me my humic & fulvic acids!
with molasses the plants dont eat the carbo, it feeds the soil bacteria that give off chemicals that the plant can use, so why fuck about with things that just carry or create the chemicals that plants need, just cut out the middle man and use strait chem's.
Actually, that is not entirely true. The plants actually *do* use the carbohydrates/sugars, they just need to be small enough molecules. So, those sugars, assuming one has mycos and other soil microbes that they're propagating, do feed the microbes, but they can also be directly taken up by plants. I used to believe as you did and then a botany major taught me differently.
a good foliar feed is mono potassium phosphate, it feeds the plants p&k (no nitro) and it kills or prevents powdery mildew, check out Haifa chemicals on the net MKP.
Good tip! Is this a foliar you'd use on a regular basis, or if you see problems?
The BMO line is fantastic, if you want an easy foliar then those are great products and a great line and I love all those hippies making it.
My tip is to use your most expensive products as foliars. I would never foliar anything sugary such as molasses for the simple fear it would become sticky and attract pests. I learned the hard way about foliaring fish emulsion--it can be done, don't do it near a living area such as your bedroom.
Epsom salts, if your girls are experiencing a deficiency or imbalance of calcium to magnesium, delivered via a nice, warm, pH'd foliar feed can do wonders in less than a week.
My foliar recipes are determined solely by what the girls are telling me.
Hungry for nitrogen? Ok honey, we'll get ya some nitrogen in a nice, soft form, no blue stuff.
Cal-Mg imbalance or deficiency? Those Epsom salts I mentioned can be helpful, as can a good quality
Cal-Mag product.
Girls not growing as well as you'd like? Make a tea of alfalfa, steeped in warm water for an hour or so and apply as a root drench or foliar, it's chock full of
triacontanol and that just makes them go crazy!
I cannot adequately talk up good kelp products, be they extracts (perfectly suitable as foliar feeds) or meals. They be good shit.
