these little douche bags :)

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bigmikeyg

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sound like you know DE.. when you say use it anyways .. how do you find it helps on soil level after adding nutes .. or as a liquid mix spray on leaves and stems and stuff .. never used it before but got 10 pounds :)
 
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sound like you know DE.. when you say use it anyways .. how do you find it helps on soil level after adding nutes .. or as a liquid mix spray on leaves and stems and stuff .. never used it before but got 10 pounds :)

It's a natural source of Silica, which greatly increases cell wall thickness as well as preventing diseases from stress, plus a natural pest control. It's great stuff, used sparingly.

I've only used it as a top dressing. No experience as foliar, but I would guess the effects are similar for cell wall growth.
 
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cool yeah have seen stuff w/regards to both .. just not overly confident .. when you top dress you doing it every week or two or something ?
 
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It's a natural source of Silica, which greatly increases cell wall thickness as well as preventing diseases from stress, plus a natural pest control. It's great stuff, used sparingly.

I've only used it as a top dressing. No experience as foliar, but I would guess the effects are similar for cell wall growth.
Not going to get much plant growth from a spray of DE. Pretty good article on silica foliar sprays and need for stabilized silicic acid if you're using silica as a spray: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6027496/ (you can skip all the individual test shown in section 4 as they're kind of tedious.)
 
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BTK is specific to caterpillars, bacillus thurengiensis kurstacki
I have yet to try BTK. How effective is it for you? I need to spray my peach tree again if it ever quits raining lol
 

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