Specific questions regarding seed treatment, foliar feeding and advanced soil prep

Hello, It's my first time here :) :peace:

I have some very specific questions regarding advanced nutrition fertilization of cannabis and I hope some of you can help me.

First thing is about seed treatment. I have about 10 kg of molybdenum trioxide that I can react with potassium or ammonium hydroxide to obtain its respective salts. It's known that molybdenum seed treatment helps the plant to fix nitrogen over it's life. I would like to know you guys opinion on treating cannabis seeds with amino acids and potassium or ammonium molybdate.

Regarding foliar feeding, is it recommended? I have access to any plant micronutrient.

And last thing, I would like to know if it's a good idea to treat my soil with algae extracts, amino acids, humic and fulvic acids and hormones?

Thank you very much. I really hope I can find the answer to my question here.
 

Apomixis

Active Member
Really? That's your first post?
Its unusual that you should have to go through such trouble to produce a micronutrient that most people don't even care enough to know about, no? Why the concern with it? It seems the research done into the subject is agricultural, so probably no one here has any experience with it. In fact, you can easily see this forum still has a healthy "defoliation debate". Now take a guess if someone has useful information lol.
A quick google scholar search shows that its use is for fields deficient in Mo... Are you concerned your plants will be somehow deficient? Well, lucky for you, Mo is easily applied by a foliar spray. Aaaaaaaannnnddddd.......
It is generally regarded that foliar sprays can enhance lots of plants, MJ is no different.
As for the rest, again, why the concern? Just feed the plants with your favorite plant food and they will grow. why fuss about with fulvic acids, etc....

In all honesty, this seems to me to be a lame attempt to make someone look uneducated and foolish.
 
Sorry if the questions are too specific and looks like a way to make people look "uneducated and foolish". I have little agricultural knowledge and I found some posts here with formulas for good cannabis fertilizers so that's really why I posted this. I want to experiment all this stuff on my cannabis as an attempt of making it as healthy and strong as possible, since I have this resources. Most of this stuff is very expensive (like the molybdenum trioxide) but I have free access to all of them and most of it is used in the agricultural field all around the world and not in a home growing cannabis. Sorry again Apomixis and whoever feels the same. That is not my intention.

But still my question remains. If somebody can answer me I'd really appreciate it.
 

Apomixis

Active Member
Have at it! You are in a prime position to pave the way for the Mo revolution! Let us know the results anyhow, it seems you've got a handle on the material and it's application.
No need to apologize. And obviously, I've never worked with foliar Mo sprays. Lol good luck.
 

PurpleBuz

Well-Known Member
Hello, It's my first time here :) :peace:

I have some very specific questions regarding advanced nutrition fertilization of cannabis and I hope some of you can help me.

First thing is about seed treatment. I have about 10 kg of molybdenum trioxide that I can react with potassium or ammonium hydroxide to obtain its respective salts. It's known that molybdenum seed treatment helps the plant to fix nitrogen over it's life. I would like to know you guys opinion on treating cannabis seeds with amino acids and potassium or ammonium molybdate.
Waste of time and $$. These plants do not "fix N" its not a legume. In fact Cannabis will eagerly gobble up any available Nitrogen. It grows like a weed. What I recommend is to ensure that you have a complete water soluble fert. ie One which has every micronutrient and in appropriate balances. Dynagrow is an example. Use a weak solution every time you water. Foliar feeding does work, but if your irrigation water has nutrients in it there shouldn't be any need.
 

cannawizard

Well-Known Member
Hello, It's my first time here :) :peace:

Regarding foliar feeding, is it recommended? I have access to any plant micronutrient.

And last thing, I would like to know if it's a good idea to treat my soil with algae extracts, amino acids, humic and fulvic acids and hormones?
Foliar feeding works. And your soil treatment should depend on what your trying to accomplish, humic/fulvic help promote bac/fung (but is the results worth the effort in-regards to its use with "cannabis cultivation"? debatable), algae extracts? you mean seaweed?? well some ppl use it for compost teas & soil amendments. (http://compostwerks.wordpress.com/tag/ascophyllum-nodosum/)
 

Apomixis

Active Member
Good genetics is really the best way to get strong, full plants. Just like the garden, nutrition is key, but the variety is what gets you yields or quality.
 
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