New Grower Can we talk foliar feeding?

[JAYAR]

great info here thanks guys

 

[Panic]

I would quote everyone. This is the best site for people who truly care about cannabis. Glad to see people on the same source. i know this is a random thread. Also i love superthrive why would you not take a drop a gallon for what a like 10,000 bet about growing since agent orange existed. prove it wrong you get money. U know what AF.net heres my garden

 

[Panic]

thanks for the smack brother Panic! A big yes! to silica as a foliar (LOL! think fo' liar )... I too apply 3-4 times each grow a micronute (Fe-Mn-Zn-Cu) + silica foliar spray, just to be sure,... our rescue secret sauce at the orchid nursery was a blend of Superthrive, Si (Pro-Tekt brand), a little molasses and water spreader,... excellent results on traumatized plants of any stripe! .... And yeah, no multi-bottles of shit laying around! FUBAR city waiting to happen there,.. beside, many of these things don't have much shelf life, especially with Superthrive and molasses in it-- that can go bad in a day! As a rule, mix fresh and use it up within a day....

Yea perfect, you guys are sic.... I am in the middle of (GSCxROGK)Cookie Kush, Jack Herer Auto,

 

[Panic]

Thank you yea dead right in my opinion, you guys are killing these grows. A4 and Waira The foilar for the micro is pretty easy. I wish there was a cool lightsabre induction. I love this site it is the most helpful site of its kind. During this reply ive been training a 1 month cookie kush, while i do royal queen seeds Jack Herer Automatic. I love House and Garden Aqua flakes even though I am running its coco re-circ, the plants, exhibit a sky reaching

 

[NRKgrw]

Good topic NRK! Foliar spraying is a very good method to learn, for feeding, treating defc.'s, and pest control... Foliar feeding is a common practice across agriculture; done generally at lower dosage conc. that you would for soil feeding,... the beauty behind it is that it gets things very quickly into the plant, which is why it's so great for treating many defc.'s (not all-- K is not recommended for some reason).... for more immobile nutes, like Fe, Mn, Zn, Ca, etc., it's perfect for getting stuff right to the spots where it's needed most... while in liquid form, goodies get access via the stomata, the gas/moisture exchange portals found over the entire leaf surface top and especially bottom,... If there's trouble with the soil/res' solution/roots, foliar can bypass this and help feed the plant during the crisis and recovery,... Now, to make it vastly more effective, you need to use a water spreader/wetting agent, like Blue discussed... the principle behind this stuff is that it takes the surface tension out of the water or whatever solution that you're spraying with, so that it coats and sticks more evenly, instead of just beading up... more surface area covered=more absorbed! Also, when treating for pests, it helps penetrate the vermin's natural water repellancy, allowing the stuff to access their bodies better !!
Another use is for helping overly dry mediums like coco or soils regain their absorbancy,... particles tend to bind tightly sometimes, and so the water may just find narrow paths of least resistance and make for uneven wetting,... with a wetting agent the water will penetrate and moisten more evenly...
There's several brands out there for this, some "organic", usually yucca extract-- something you'll see commonly in ingredients of fert, supp's, etc.; other from synthetic formulations,... your dish detergent is loaded with surfactants, but it's also loaded with harsh detergents, so if in a pinch, use something milder,... uhhh,... Nutrilife SM-90, Coco wet, Earth Juice Assist, Humboldt Nutr. Sticky,.. forget AN's Wet Betty, a total rip-off in price for such a product!
...quiz Friday!!

Quiz! Oh shit! But the dog ate my homework!
I'm too far gone this time, although I've read of foliar feeding all the way through harvest, I'm not going to chance it.
Next time i will be utilizing it though. If i get it right, it should be beneficial.
I've read apply just before lights on and ice read just before lights out. Seems there's 2 or more camps on every issue.
Thanks again waira!

 

[NRKgrw]

Absolutely use silica as a foliar and many of them come with instructions on the container for mixing ratios.

I have done a lot of testing with foliars a couple of years ago, all the way through harvest and can tell anyone interested that foliars isn't just for nutrient correction. When used properly, they are the absolute best tool in the chest for beefing up plants. I have a mixture I created that is Calcium, Kelp, and Dextrose that I fed all the way through harvest and harvested 196 grams dry from one plant in organics. That grow was documented here at AFN. So, YES, lol, foliars are the bees knees for getting the most out of plants. One thing, when foliar feeding through the flower cycle, always do a bud wash when harvesting. It cleans all the nastys off the buds so you don't inhale them. It also makes the buds taste superific!

Hey a4!
Like i told waira, I'm going foliar next grow, i think it would be a great nutrient addition.

 

[A4]

I've read apply just before lights on and ice read just before lights out. Seems there's 2 or more camps on every issue.
Thanks again waira!

Yes, but my camp is right! Just kidding, sorta. Just as or before lights come on, in my opinion, is the best timing. That is when the stomata are going to open up the most to get the nutrients into the plant, it is also going to give any residual mixture that doesn't get absorbed a chance to evaporate off. In vegetative that isn't too important but if you spray into bloom then you don't want any excess moisture sitting in the flower crevices overnight, in the dark cooler air.