Homemade flowering foliar spray?

Poe Kerbuddons · Jan 11, 2013

I'm thinking boil a pinch or two of bonemeal in a gallon of water for twenty to thirty minutes, strain, let cool and then apply. I don't rightly know how it could be bad in any way. I might even add a dab of honey.

Any thoughts suggestions or objections?

Slipon · Jan 11, 2013

dont

not in flowering and not bone meal to high in Nitrogen and not fast enough release any way

in flowering use some high P/K maybe a booster of some kind and Molasses .. all go in to the soil .. dont want mold/mildew/Bud rot

mr2shim · Jan 11, 2013

Don't spray in flower unless you like moldy bud.

Poe Kerbuddons · Jan 11, 2013

mr2shim said:
Don't spray in flower unless you like moldy bud.

Even with good airflow to ensure they properly dry?

mr2shim · Jan 11, 2013

Poe Kerbuddons said:
Even with good airflow to ensure they properly dry?

There is no reason to spray the leaves in flower. It does absolutely nothing but cause your plants to be more apt to mold. It's a bad idea, don't do it. The end.

Poe Kerbuddons · Jan 11, 2013

mr2shim said:
There is no reason to spray the leaves in flower. It does absolutely nothing but cause your plants to be more apt to mold. It's a bad idea, don't do it. The end.

Well, okay then.

Although I will admit your dictatorial fashion of speaking makes my stubborn streak want to prove you all kinds of wrong on this. So godsdamned badly it's not gonna be funny til later.

But I reckon wisdom is knowing when to listen to other wisdom, even when it comes in a disagreeable fashion.

What exactly does spraying the leaves during veg do, then? And what changes between veg and flower?

mr2shim · Jan 11, 2013

Poe Kerbuddons said:
Well, okay then.

Although I will admit your dictatorial fashion of speaking makes my stubborn streak want to prove you all kinds of wrong on this. So godsdamned badly it's not gonna be funny til later.

But I reckon wisdom is knowing when to listen to other wisdom, even when it comes in a disagreeable fashion.

What exactly does spraying the leaves during veg do, then? And what changes between veg and flower?

lol, I apologize for my way of replying. In veg, IMO I don't think it really does a ton of good to be honest because the roots uptake the vast majority of nutrients/water required for photosynthesis. In flower. Well, you have flowers(pistils and calyxes) They tend to mold when the humidity is too high or when they are wet for elongated periods of time.

Slipon · Jan 11, 2013

only reason to mist your plants (under neat the leaf`s as their pores is located there) is when they are small and don't have much of a root net to uptake water fast enough and/or have a low humidity (less then 30%IMO) and small plants in the vegetive stages where they thrive the best with a high RH (50-70%)

once in flowering you want to aim for a RH around 40% some even go as low as 30% to ensure mold and mildew cant get a "foothold" big plants have a hugh root net and flowering plants do best with a relative RH compared to plants in the vegetive stages

and water on Buds is never a good idea and actually why my fist post might come of a bit short as I just used 5 minutes in my grow room after all the watering to blow of a bit of water that have dripped on the top of one of my flowering plants and then to come in here and read you post .. lol

and why Mr2shim might snap at you aswell .. do some research please (no offend) but Im actually a bit surprised that you know about making tea`s and have bone meal aso but don't know not to mist the plants in flowering .. instead keep a good air flow

Slipon · Jan 11, 2013

p.s.

a 3th reason to mist in Veg could be if you spot a deficiency and want to correct it fast with some nutrients etc. but I like my nuts in the soil/coco but thats just me I guess

I do mist my small seedlings at week 0-2 once a day as my RH often is around 40% I use bottle water or rain water as my tap keeps a lot of lime (don't like that on my Leaf`s) if bottle water I correct it to 6,5 and I make sure its room temperated and I also add a water agent, I use yucca but wet betty is common and works as well

Poe Kerbuddons · Jan 11, 2013

Slipon said:
only reason to mist your plants (under neat the leaf`s as their pores is located there) is when they are small and don't have much of a root net to uptake water fast enough and/or have a low humidity (less then 30%IMO) and small plants in the vegetive stages where they thrive the best with a high RH (50-70%)

once in flowering you want to aim for a RH around 40% some even go as low as 30% to ensure mold and mildew cant get a "foothold" big plants have a hugh root net and flowering plants do best with a relative RH compared to plants in the vegetive stages

and water on Buds is never a good idea and actually why my fist post might come of a bit short as I just used 5 minutes in my grow room after all the watering to blow of a bit of water that have dripped on the top of one of my flowering plants and then to come in here and read you post .. lol

and why Mr2shim might snap at you aswell .. do some research please (no offend) but Im actually a bit surprised that you know about making tea`s and have bone meal aso but don't know not to mist the plants in flowering .. instead keep a good air flow

mr2shim said:
lol, I apologize for my way of replying. In veg, IMO I don't think it really does a ton of good to be honest because the roots uptake the vast majority of nutrients/water required for photosynthesis. In flower. Well, you have flowers(pistils and calyxes) They tend to mold when the humidity is too high or when they are wet for elongated periods of time.

I generally ask questions after researching my literature, and I reckon a man is allowed a few glaring ignorances.

From what I'm hearing, it seems like foliar sprays are mostly a loaday horse shite. Excepting of course the instances outline above and homemade pesticides.

No worries, Shim. It's funny by now.

Slipon · Jan 11, 2013

good, on a side note, I use Bone meal, as well as blood meal and other stuff like Bat guano, Maerl, Epsom salt Etc.

but all of it I mix in my soil a few weeks before I intent to use it, to make a SS (super soil) so all I need to do most grow is water, only in flowering I might add stuff like Molasses and tea`s

Poe Kerbuddons · Jan 11, 2013

Slipon said:
good, on a side note, I use Bone meal, as well as blood meal and other stuff like Bat guano, Maerl, Epsom salt Etc.

but all of it I mix in my soil a few weeks before I intent to use it, to make a SS (super soil) so all I need to do most grow is water, only in flowering I might add stuff like Molasses and tea`s

Super soils look fascinating, and I'm planning mine for the future. The only issue is funds and space.

For my next grow I'm going to try a few things different for sure; you know, actual planning and whatnot, plus a working knowledge of basic botanical process and soil mechanics.

I'm definitely staying organic. Only way to go, for sure, seeing as how teas are the shit.

I prefer honey as my sugar product. It just seems more natural to me.

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