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It's a staple in my garden, also is organically derived(I got it in my teas). It's a naturally occuring chemical/hormone.
hey ttystik, you can make a tea from seaweed/alfalfa. making organic teas helps the plants so much.
I'm a complete noob to the idea of making teas or fermented plant extracts. I also harbor some doubts- not about their efficacy, but rather about how well they'd work in an RDWC environment. Of course, for foliar applications that wouldn't matter, but what about adding it to my water? My fear is twofold; one, that it won't remain in solution and therefore the plants can't take it up, or two that it will provide food or other encouragement to pathogens.
Pursuant to the present invention, the above problems have been eliminated by providing a chemical formulation which can be used with water for application to plant life. According to the present invention, 1-triacontanol is dissolved in a polar organic solvent in an amount sufficient to form a water-soluble concentrate. Typically, a concentrate can be formed by mixing together one part by weight (grams) of 1-triacontanol with up to about 5,000,000 parts by volume (ml) of the polar organic solvent, preferably between 1 and 500,000 ml of polar organic solvent to one gram of 1-triacontanol, more preferably one part by weight of 1-triacontanol to about 1000 parts by volume of the polar organic solvent and most preferably about one part of 1-triacontanol to about 40 to 140 parts of solvent. The polar organic solvent can be any water-soluble solvent or solvent mixture containing one or more functional groups which renders the 1-triacontanol solution soluble in water. This solution is then dissolved in a large quantity of water which contains metal salts and other plant growth substances with stirring and/or shaking. Alternately, other plant growth substances may be dissolved in the concentrate, the purpose of which will become clear in the following discussion.
As usual, Squiggly, you're stretching my knowlege of chemistry to the very edge and a little beyond- keep doing that!
Then I'm accomplishing what my goal is on this forum, and in life.
I just happen to be the type of dude who thinks chemistry is so cool and interesting that everyone should know more about it. It's one of those things that as your understanding of it furthers--it changes you and your perspective. For lack of a better way to say it--there are things that once you know, you cannot un-know. The world works in some pretty fucking crazy ways and the combination of those two things can lead to some interesting thoughts.
A trillion trillion trillion trillion molecules are going into this communication we're having, for example. For ever mole of substance between us involved in this message, there are 6.022x10^23 molecules of that substance. Trying to wrap your head around the numbers for something as simple as a small building is absolutely dizzying. Imagining the whole world and universe is something else entirely. That's just something about life that I don't think I'll ever get out of my head. It's like ever since I took a film class ( a good one ) in my early college years--I can't watch a movie without picking apart the cinematography, the camera angles, the cuts, the lighting. In some ways the story loses its glamour, but in other directions completely new and strange doors are opened.
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