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I use aspirin as well to boost the immune system of my young sprouts.Salicylic acid is good stuff. A homie uses aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) instead of the overpriced hydro store stuff. I think willow is what you're looking for if looking for the organic source.
I use agsil as a foliar and root drench. Are you saying when I add water to it I made monosilicic acid?Silicic acid is very reactive, so in order to have a bottled product with relatively concentrated silicic acid you have to stabilize it. That is you have to make it less reactive. If I remember correctly Fasillito and Silliforce use PEG formulations to stabilize it and Yara ActiSil uses Choline Chloride to stabilize it.
How do you suppose they derive this silicic acid?
It says on the label "Derived from: potassium silicate, boric acid and sodium molybdate".
So they take potassium silicate, dilute it in water to hydrolyze the silicate into silicic acid, then because silicic acid is not stable in solution they have to stabilize it so their product that is mostly water has a useful shelf life.
Doesn't it make more sense to have a supply of potassium silicate, so that you can make your own dilute silicic acid solution on an 'as needed' basis. Thus circumventing the need for fancy stabilized silicic acid in a bottle products?
just thinking out loud.
Once in aqueous solution,
all soluble silicates are subject to the same molecular speciation resulting in a mixture of monomeric tetrahedral
ions, oligomeric linear or cyclic silicate ions and polysilicate ions. At environmental pH values the soluble
silicates are present as poorly soluble amorphous silica and monomeric silicic acid.
No. Dont know anything about it. Is it water soluble? The agsil product is what I will be using. Need to go read Quantrill's link and see what the ph needs to be.Anyone using Sodium Silicate?
Fatman recommended a long time ago, it comes as Water Glass in stores but supposedly makes a clean silicic acid. Never tried it.No. Dont know anything about it. Is it water soluble? The agsil product is what I will be using. Need to go read Quantrill's link and see what the ph needs to be.
old thread i know but i figured this might be of use. i also heard that the scientist that made fasilitor left aptus and went to mills. check this link and they give samples to. http://plantscienceconcepts.com/osa28/
I use aspirin as well to boost the immune system of my young sprouts.
I use it at a rate of (1) 325mg tablet per gallon of water at week 3 of veg , crushed well. And I've used it in veg when thrips did damage, to help in case of infection at the same rate. I can't say directly that it helps, but research and the fact that I've always had successful harvests is enough proof for me.
Great thread.
Peace
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