LinkBack URL
About LinkBacks
Reply With Quoteya man i have tried it but i usually dont see an improvement and then i use more and they get pissed lol
5Likes
Foliar Feeding. I call bullshit!
I was writing in another thread, but I wonder what other people think about foliar feeding? Here was my post, and yeah this guy was having a problem caused by his foliar feeding;
Foliar feeding is like Voo Doo magic with very little data to constitute it's usage. It basically just generates income for the shops, and manufacturers.
Mari Jane isn't really designed to absorb nutes, or minerals through it's leaves. It can do so in a very limited capacity, but in a grow room you'd never need it, and think about the possible negatives? The way foliar feeding works is you are allowing the stomata to absorb nutrients. That's not really what they are there for, they are to exchange Co2 to oxygen, and just breathe. The system the plant uses to draw nutes, and water through the roots depend on the stomata as well! I think the risk of clogging the stomata, burning the leaves, uncontrolled moisture, and a myriad of other negative possibilities (look at your example!) far outweigh any perceived benefits. Plants just don't eat like that, and there is no reason to mess with it. You should have no problem delivering all your plants needs through the root system. Just look at the way the thing was designed by nature! Your time would be much better spent trying to deliver MAX air exchange, >75 degree temps, 5000 lumens a sq foot, proper PH for your medium, and a great root system. If you nail those five things you can deliver a tremendous amount of nutes to your plant. I feed very heavy, but I've got plants that can actually utilize it.
I have used foliars before, but just for a few specific reasons when I had to deliver something to the plant in a pinch.
ya man i have tried it but i usually dont see an improvement and then i use more and they get pissed lol
Pictures posted are stolen/used from various other sites Stories told are that of my imagination, pure fiction, if not copied from other sites for humor only purposes.
Part of the trouble is that foliar feeding was originally developed for plants with slow transpiration, like trees in orchards. Cannabis has a fast-acting circulation, and foliar feeding simply isn't necessary. Add to this that foliar nutes are usually ionic in nature, and you get a narrow-to-nonexistent window between "no effect" and "leaf burn". Jmo. cn
"My god ... it's full of stars!" - David BowmanneerGreen 2: Soilless growOriginally Posted by Heisenberg
I get the same benefit from foliar feeding as I do molasses, unnoticeable.
It makes me chuckle.Let the roots do the work.
The Cult of Skaro shall live on in the temporal ether.
http://forum.grasscity.com/pandoras-...-out-here.html
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...-zpdgn05Ej90Dc
This makes a lot of sense. Was looking at the Optic Foliar line but will likely rethink that now.
Foliar feeding never made any noticeable difference for me so I stop doing it + Leafs are the lungs of your plant not their stomach.
“Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see.” -Thomas Jefferson
“You are what you eat so I really need to eat a skinny person." -Geronimo420
I foliar my outdoor with kelp during veg and the plants look prime. You can also foliar with sulfur or copper sulfate as a fungicide. It can also be a fast acting method to correct deficiencies.
Foliar feeding, while not the most practical, is the most efficient method of delivering nutrients to a plant when done correctly. The nutrients can go straight to the leaves via the stomata and not have to travel through the root and xylem. Im not just blowing this out of my ass, either. I took a lot of horticulture classes in college
I think people run into problems when they foliar feed with solutions that are too strong, or they spray while the suns up/HID lights are on and get leaf burn.
I do believe that it's beneficial when done correctly and in moderation.
powdered donuts make me go nuts
Want to use PGRs? Give this a read: http://www.manicbotanix.com/index.ph...d=27&Itemid=14
Look into Dutch masters liquid light an saturator. I just stop after a week to 2 weeks into flower depending on size of buds
http://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growi...ti-strain.htmlI heard if your roots look like chow mien you can eat em
everything i have read says that foliar feeding is where it's at.. i once started a thread on another forum asking about it, and plenty of people chimed in, and the general consensus was that it really makes a positive difference to plants..
the stomata can indeed intake nutrients, which are quickly distributed to the rest of the leaf.. of course one could always clog the stomata if too much nutrient mix is used..
it's also true that some nutrients aren't able to translocate, or move from one part of the plant to another.. phosphurus and iron are two such chemicals that don't translocate well..
[/CENTER]
Posting Permissions
Bookmarks