Aloe Vera

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mattwright

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Hey guys, ive recently bought an aloe vera plant and have found out that it is a great patch up for cuts and salve for burns. I was wondering if i could use this stuff to assist the marijuana stem healing process in pruning, LST and SCROG. Any one have any experience with this or good reasons to believe in why or why it wouldnt work?
I look forward to your answers,there always good. ;-)
 
hyroot

hyroot

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I don't know about healing plant wounds. But you can use the aloe for clones. Instead of buying cloning gel. You can puree a fillet and add it to tea or make a foliar spray with it. Speeds up metabolism / growth.
 
Sincerely420

Sincerely420

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Cheers bossman. We just went out and got a few aloe plants to using during the next run so I was wondering how some ppl might use it.
I've read so many different ways in the bast few days how to use it, that it seems I'll just have to go trial and error huh?!
Read to use 1tbsp per gallon but also read to use a cup and a half per gallon(for a foliar spray solution). Then I read that it'd be ok to rub out plant leaves with straight filleted aloe! Jesus I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do lol.
Also read that I could make it into aloe juice then dilute it! Guess I'll have to try it a few ways and get it down.

But I want to use the aloe to coat the leaves and get them nice a protected from nature and the elements lol.
I'll keep diggin for sure tho bro, and let you know what I find.
Gonna try a few different botanical sprays during veg, and see how goes it

Thanks for the response bro :joint:
And ps, I really just wanna use it to coat the leaves and keep them protect from the elements(wind and intense light mostly), not for healing plants stems lol.
Was gonna make a thread but then I found this one here. I'll post some of the things I've found tho, so that it's all in on place
 
hyroot

hyroot

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I was at a restaurant last night with the fam. They have aloe plants outfront. I snagged a few leaves. Keeping them in a cup of water for now. Going to root them when I get home. That's how you save loot. Lol. I don't know the dilution rate of the top of my head. But it is in the rols thread or cann's thread.
 
Sincerely420

Sincerely420

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Cool boss, gonna def. check em out!
And hell yeah man. About to get some worms, comfrey, nettle, and barely seed this week too.
And hell yeah in saving money bro. You self sustained in the garden yet? I'm hoping to be there by year end with a small bin for compost and a small bin for vermicompost :joint:
 
hyroot

hyroot

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Where the hell do you get comfrey? Ive been looking for it for so long. All the nurseries and shops and feed stores in Cal have not heard of it.... ive only found one place online in north Carolina . But I don't know how reputable they are
 
Sincerely420

Sincerely420

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You're in NC or Socal? and Craigslist bro?! There are organic gardens everywhere around me lol like 5 of them in 5 miles maybe!
But if you can't find any, hit Amazon bossman :leaf:
 
Sincerely420

Sincerely420

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Okok. I think Amazon might be your best bet after craiglist boss. Most little mom and shop places, or even garden business around me, you can't even find on the internet. I.e, the regional worm supplie is in my city lol, but I can't find ANYTHING about them online other than a phone number and a kinda outadated website(updated last maybe 2 weeks ago).

http://www.amazon.com/Starwest-Botanicals-Organic-Nettle-Sifted/dp/B001A1RS58/ref=sr_1_7?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1368456741&sr=1-7&keywords=stinging+nettle

http://www.amazon.com/Starwest-Botanicals-Organic-Comfrey-1-pound/dp/B003AYEHGG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1368456678&sr=8-2&keywords=comfrey


 
hyroot

hyroot

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Ok cool. Ive actually been looking for seeds or the plant itself. That will work for now. Thanks
 
trotsky

trotsky

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here a nice mans selling the comfrey roots of bocking 14. please take your times in reading, trotsky has thinking this is something you would enjoy, take cares.
 
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waktoo

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hyroot said:
Where the hell do you get comfrey? Ive been looking for it for so long. All the nurseries and shops and feed stores in Cal have not heard of it.... ive only found one place online in north Carolina . But I don't know how reputable they are
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If you're talking about Coe's, they come highly recommended from a lot of the organic gardeners on other forums that I frequent. They only sell the Bocking #4 cultivar, which is better suited for drier climates, and is STERILE. You don't want this stuff going to seed. It will take over your yard! While I love Horizon Herbs (just put in a huge order for seeds!), they sell the Bocking #14 cultivar, which will come back from seed (and the root, of course). Which is fine, or course, especially if you have a whole yard to dedicate to comfrey. I will actually be ordering some two-year plants here really soon, as soon as spring comes to my neck of the woods (mountains, SW Colorado). Sorry for keeping things off topic, OP.
 
hyroot

hyroot

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^^^^My yard is all cement. So either be using fabric pots or build a soil bed.. Does.concert stop growing in pots when they reach a certain point or do they keep on growing regardless?
 
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waktoo

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hyroot said:
^^^^My yard is all cement. So either be using fabric pots or build a soil bed.. Does.concert stop growing in pots when they reach a certain point or do they keep on growing regardless?
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Comfrey is a dynamic accumulator. They send down deep roots and are not really suited for growing in pots.
 
Sincerely420

Sincerely420

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I know lol.
In looking for the answer for how to use it, I've come to the conclusion that its safe to use 2oz/gal or 4tbsp/gal and use it as a foliar spray a few times during veg.
Also learned that you can use it to the tune of 1tbsp/gal as a soil drench.

Everything I'm finding is in regards to using aloe juice rather than the gel directly from the plants.
It's SUPER nutritional tho, so I guess it's something that you could use to your advantage in a GREAT deal.
I'll find out in a few weeks for sure tho :joint:
 
Cann

Cann

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up to 1/4cup per gallon soil drench...i know folks who have used 2x that amount w/ no ill effects

2tbs/gal is what i use for foliar, 2x per week


hyroot - horizon herbs is great for comfrey - follow the link a few posts back. bocking 14 root cuttings is what you are looking for, if I remember right they were about $5 each?

maybe we should start a comfrey thread...
 
dl290485

dl290485

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This is not growing related but I can swear by it's burn treating properties. Believe me i'm not one to ordinary give glowing reviews of things- I know that just because you use something and then you observe a desirable result it's no proof at all that the remedy did anything at all. But here's why I say everyone needs one in the garden ready for burns;

I was going to grill something in my oven. My electric oven appliance has heating elements in the top, which are the 'grill' and a shelf immediately below it. There is also a heating spot on the back wall which is the regular oven. Anyway this top shelf just immediately below the grill for some unknown reason didn't get hot on the handle bit when the grill was on. It has a looped bit that comes out so i was used to just grabbing it with a bare finger and pulling it out. One day though I forgot that only just moments before I went to use the grill my wife had been using the oven on a high temperature- so yeah when i put the whole side of my pointing finger curled along this super hot piece of metal it burnt the F'ing-F out of me instantly. First thing I did was go to the tap and run some water on it for 30 seconds or what ever but then I went straight down stairs and picked some whole aloe leaves, slit the spines off the sides and peeled off one half of the skin to reveal the jelly inside. First i folded one leaf in half to ooze out the gel onto the burn and smother it and then I got another new leaf and gently massaged it in/held it on as a bandage. What I noticed straight away was that when the gel was up against my skin it was soothing. When I took it away the soothing effect lingered but felt like it was drying out- maybe because the gel itself was literally drying out (or disappearing somewhere somehow) and I had to keep re-applying more gel/a leaf bandage. I did this continuously at first for maybe half an hour and then on and off (as the burning feeling came back) for maybe another hour or 2.
Anyway this might seem like a big rant for nothing- but let me detail the results; 1) I had a low amount of pain as soon as 10 minutes after start of treatment. 2) Although the next day my skin was white and sagged like a big loose blister where it was burned- to touch it I felt no pain. Not just no pain, it actually felt numb! The skin was dead but under 24 hours after burning myself I had a blister with no pain to touch.
There is no way that I just was healthy or what ever and burned the first layer of my skin to death and barely felt it- it can only be the aloe because the only other intervention was tap water which i barely did and have done for every other burn I can compare this to.

...but if you don't like the possible bias of a personal testimony you can read the National Institute of Health's clinical research that says it's effective for 1st and 2nd degree burns. :P
 
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