The Lost Art of Foliar Feeding

Originally Posted by Uncle Ben

We can both cherry pick to suit our agenda. Guess you could take it up with the good doctor. Give her a call. I'm gonna call her about her reluctance to use phosphates.

For starts, if a plant was meant to be fertilized via its leaves, God would have put some form of the essential elements in an airborne form, on a continous basis. If sugar was so wonderful, it would be sold as fertilizer....and the band plays on. The only airborne elements a plant might receive in the form of nitrates is via rain. Plants have developed their plant parts which serves specific functions over millions of years, root uptake of elements is the way it's done.

You can do all the book reading you want and with each ditty, you'll find caveats. I just haven't found it very effective nor do I believe it's required for good cannabis growth, witness my avatar which not only never received foliar applications (because they were not required) but grew from a seedling to full term exclusively under HPS lighting. It's just another forum ditty to push your plants and like all the other cannabis drills can have bad results.

You can get a quick greenup with products like Ferromec AC which contain a low biuret form of N and iron, but again I don't see much value unless there's a problem at the root zone, i.e. chlorosis caused by calcareous soils.

Foliar feeding is a short term fix or tool, it is not a miracle.

UB

Agreed, I foliar feed after transplant or if the plant looks stressed/ hungry, but is it's not necessarily time to give it a full root drench. In my experience it will help bounce a plant back or hold it over until a full feed. You will notice a lush green in hours and perky leaves But, it seems to be short term. In my experience it clearly has an affect on the plant and has been helpful. You don't want to over do it, its easy to burn your leaves and it leaves a film if your not coming back through with pHed water to "wash" the leaf. If your feeding properly you shouldn't have to foliar feed, problem solved.

Originally Posted by shotnva777

Bunch of monkeys squawking at each other.... "Do this, no that, YOU SUCK, fuck u .... Blah blah blah!"

Google Grasscity! Get the REAL FACTS.

Real facts? You mean like this? http://forum.grasscity.com/indoor-ma...flowering.html

Well.. I try to look at it from natures point of view.. In the 'wild' the nutes are in the ground. You might get some N from rain but very little. Billions of years of evolution with the roots getting the food and the leaves transpiring and gathering light.

But, now you're telling me that mother nature is stupid and has it all wrong.. The leaves are do everything??

Any of you stop to think about where the nutes that run off the plant go? Hmmm? Gravity.. down to the what? Roots.. Are you sure it's not the run off that's helping your plants?

Originally Posted by eDude

Well.. I try to look at it from natures point of view..

Well you are not looking near hard enough, they get dripping from bigger plants above insects/birds shit on the leaves, insects carries other goodies, splashes from other sources e.g. plant material/extract ...need i go on?

Come on, that doesn't pass the laugh test. If it's on the leaf of the tree above it and it's soo good then why didn't the tree absorb it? If it's being washed off the leaf then why is it sticking to the plant below? Wouldn't it wash off that too.. into the SOIL. You guys are weird with your (what about this) stuff.

The idiots have taken control.

They don't call them "dopers" for nothing.....where hearsay trumps science.

It gets worse, roadside plants/weeds absorb some of the carbon minoxide from car exhauste fumes but you just keep your head in the sand....