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Foliage Pro 9-3-6 / 5-1-1 Mix
Comments (7)I read the link and I feel so liberated with knowledge. I am now out of the "you don't know what you don't know category" and into the "I know what I don't know and I don't know a lot category" Follow-up. 1. Is this a valid Watering Strategy? Use soaker hose until the water flushes through the bottom holes. I can then mix up a diluted gallon of foliage pro 9-3-6 and water my plants with a watering can after the soaker hoses have done their job? If this is valid, I have to figure out how much of the diluted foliage pro water to use per plant. 2. Using a wick. I did a search but didn't find it. A piece of cloth out of one of the drainage holes. Correct? How far up the container does the wick go? Can you provide a link for that info? 3. Any issues with these smart pots? http://www.hydroponics.net/i/134702 thx Eric...See MoreDyna Gro Foliage Pro & Pro Tekt feedback
Comments (21)There are very few plants that satisfy a significant % of their nutritive needs via nutrients dissolved in water that contacts their foliage. The primary pathway for nutrient movement into almost all terrestrial plant material is through the roots. Foliar feeding is used in agricultural situations where a scarcity of one or more nutrients has been identified, and the plant is growing so rapidly that nutritive (plant) demand is greater than the plant's ability to supply (take up) isolated nutrients. Rarely is a complete fertilizer sprayed on foliage; rather, it might be a solution containing Fe, Z, Mn, or any of the other nutrients in attempt to alleviate a deficiency of an already identified nutrient, or sometimes more than one. In containers, plants almost never grow at rates that find the plant's ability to absorb insufficient to support it's growth rate, so if you do see significant improvement in your plants growth rate or appearance, it's a fairly good indicator that something is acting to inhibit the primary pathway or the grower isn't providing all the essential nutrients at a favorable rate and ratio. If you DO provide nutrients in a favorable rate/ratio, and root function isn't inhibited by poor conditions in the rhizosphere, you should see virtually NO difference in growth rate or appearance after foliar feeding. Also, when applying fertilizer via foliar application, it doesn't necessarily correct deficiencies. Nutrients that are immobile in the plant cannot effectively be moved throughout the entire organism, so you really are only providing a stopgap remedy. Any foliage that grows after application of immobile nutrients is still going to be deficient unless that nutrient is taken up so it enters the nutrient stream. An excess of any one nutrient can be as limiting as a deficiency, so make it your goal to ensure all the nutrients plants normally get from the soil and that are essential to normal growth are in the soil at all times, in a ratio that closely mimics that at which the plant actually uses the nutrients, and at a concentration high enough to ensure no deficiencies yet low enough that it doesn't inhibit the plant's ability to take up water and the nutrients dissolved in water. Conceptually, that would be the perfect way to fertilize, and it's not difficult for the hobby grower to get very, very close to getting it just right, using only one fertilizer, if some consideration is given to its selection. Al...See MoreFoliage Pro question
Comments (1)Precipitates sometimes form and fall out of solution when the product is allowed to get too cold. You can get them to go back into solution by warming it or by adding some distilled water and agitating the solution, then making allowance for the fact you diluted the fertilizer by using slightly more than you normally would. I don't mix FP and Pro-TeKt and store because a precipitate forms that doesn't want to go back into solution. I do add Pro-TeKt to fertilizer solution, but I keep it agitated with a wood stirrer and use it all during the current fertigation op. Al...See MoreFoliage Pro gritty mix fertilizer question
Comments (1)I've been wondering myself. I have a Peace Lily in a gritty mix, and have to water it almost every day. I got precise measuring spoons, and have been using 1/8 of a teaspoon per gallon of water, but I worry that it might be too much...See Morejerry_d
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