exactly, i read so much about nutrients and other companies that i didn't know which nutrient to pick for my first time grow so i wanted something easy, saw a journal of someone using it and i ended up just buying Grow/Bloom and PK and Seaweed extract.
I sometimes use a soy plant protein hydrolysate (amino acids) in dry powder from kelp4less in a weekly foliar spray in veg. With kelp..fulvic acid and yucca. I buy in bulk powders and mix a pinch of each in a quart spray bottle and hose my ladies down. Once a week in veg and first 2 weeks of 12 - 12. Aminos...fulvic...and kelps are most effective as a foliar spray but can be used at the root level (rhizosphere) as well. I was told this by Harley Smith and backed that up by a team of plant biologists at Michigan State University. I visit these dudes once in a awhile to see what they are up to if the timing permits. One thing i was told is to add aminos and fulvics to a hard (0.4 or higher EC) tap water. If the hardness is mostly calcium and magnesium carbonates and iron.... the aminos and humic/fulvic acid makes the carbonates/iron much more available to the plant. You just made a hard tap water into a calmag basically. Especially useful for a calmag and iron hungry substrate like coco coir. At anyrate...these foliar biostimulants make for a dramatic difference compared to control plants under same conditions. Your lanky sativas and og based hybrids will be more compact. Shorter. A lush deep green ( you need far less minerals in the base feed at the roots - especially nitrogen - they just use it so much more effectively and efficiently) with side branch nodes everywhere. A plant topped once or twice looks topped 10 times. Iam not kidding. What people dont realize is that plants in nature get nitrogen more in the ammoniacal version. With nitrate based feeds in a more artificial environment - a plant expends alot of its useful energy to assimilate the nitrates and other minerals. Energy that can be used for other duties. Like producing fat budding flowers. With the above biostimulants in a foliar spray...they act as a catalyst of sorts to steer the plant into what you want it to do. It frees up energy the plant can use for other things. Even outdoors if its practical...a kelp/fulvic/amino foliar spray every so often makes plants take right off. In the early days of the nor cal scene in the eighties...growers called these sprays " California Rocket Fuel". I talked to Ed Rosenthal at a Hash Bash back in 1989 before I really started seriously growing about this subject. The conversation was enlightening to say the least. Good shit.
I go back and forth between Canna and Ionic. Depending on what mood iam in at the hydro store..what strains in my stable really get off on what iam prepared to buy. But basically I follow the Canna light feed chart on thier website. The Canna calculator. For Ionic/HDI products I follow that feed chart pretty much to the letter as well. Its spot on. For foliar feeding I still use Nitrozime as my kelp. One tsp per quart spray bottle but for aminos yucca and fulvic acid i use the dry powders from kelp4less. Just a small pinch of each in the same quart spray bottle. Shake it up teal good..spray the canopy really well...trying to hit top and underside of leaf sets as best i can. Once a week. I use Canna brick coco for medium. I also use from time to time Botanicare Readygro Moisture Formula coco coir. Its good stuff. I go from rooted cutting in plugs (root riots..peat pucks...rockwool starts - all the same) to a 4" nursery pot or red dixie solo cup with holes...to a one gallon gorw bag...and final pot is a 3 gallon root pruning fabric pot. Smartpots and Geopots work well for me.
Have you noticed any difference with the dry Fulvic vs. Fossil Fuel Humic in your foliar? The plants do seem to respond very well to those foliar sprays
Not really. Its all humic/fulvic acid. The only difference is source. Most use leonardite shale. The good ones..with a high amount of plant soluble fulvic acid (the more yellow/golden in color the better) come from ancient peat. BioAg makes probably the best in liquid form called FulPower. Its golden piss yellow. And good shit. Excellent when paired with Nitrozime and yucca as a foliar. But to be honest...Between Fossil Fuel..Fulpower..and dry fulvic I havent noticed a difference except the leonardite black coffee colored ones like F. Fuel and all the rest leave spots on the leaves and a sediment that coats a reservoir..plumbing and pumps.Have you noticed any difference with the dry Fulvic vs. Fossil Fuel Humic in your foliar? The plants do seem to respond very well to those foliar sprays
