How do I foliage feed my plants in Veg?
First, remember when it rains outdoors, BEFORE it rains, it gets dark and cloudy and cooler too. There is always a wind or cool breeze first, too. So before you foilage spray and foilage feed your plants, (or just mist them with plain pH water) you should raise the lights up so they dont get wet and don't take a chance of them exploding when the cool water hits the hot glass. Also allow the grow area to cool some for a while, using an oscilating fan on High.
You can use any VEG nutrient to foliage feed your plants. I use 1/4 or 25% strenght for foilage feeding on plants with over 3 nodes and on clones. I use 1/8 strenght on baby seedlings or sprouts.
The best temperature is about 70 to 80 degrees when the stomata on the underside of the leaves are open. At over 80 degrees, they may not be open.
Let me repreat, raise those lights up high, out of the way.
Use a high quaility spray bottle, one that sprays a mist and not large drops.
Make sure the PH of your foilage spray is between 5.6 and 6.5.
To thin out the solution, and to make it stick to the leaves better, use 1/4 teaspoon of mild soap (IVORY) or dish detergent to each quart of water.
You should spray the tops of the leaves, and spray the undersides too, until the leaf is wet enough that the solution drips off.
Use distilled or filtered water to make your solution.
Only foilage feed in VEG, never in Flowering.
Why do you do it?
To provide fast and instant feeding through the leaves, which reduces stress on the plant.
To provide a quick fix for root-zone nutrient problems or for deficiencies; this allows more time to solve the problem.
To prevent excess yellowing on clones. They can't eat through the roots if they dont have any roots.
Because they love it.
How often do you do it?
I foilage spray them once a week, but I mist with plain pH balanced water as often as every other day if possible.
What do you do AFTER you spray them?
I again put the oscilating fan on High.
I leave the lights raised up high for 15 mintues, then I turn them back on. Then an half hour later, I lower them back to where they were.
First, remember when it rains outdoors, BEFORE it rains, it gets dark and cloudy and cooler too. There is always a wind or cool breeze first, too. So before you foilage spray and foilage feed your plants, (or just mist them with plain pH water) you should raise the lights up so they dont get wet and don't take a chance of them exploding when the cool water hits the hot glass. Also allow the grow area to cool some for a while, using an oscilating fan on High.
You can use any VEG nutrient to foliage feed your plants. I use 1/4 or 25% strenght for foilage feeding on plants with over 3 nodes and on clones. I use 1/8 strenght on baby seedlings or sprouts.
The best temperature is about 70 to 80 degrees when the stomata on the underside of the leaves are open. At over 80 degrees, they may not be open.
Let me repreat, raise those lights up high, out of the way.
Use a high quaility spray bottle, one that sprays a mist and not large drops.
Make sure the PH of your foilage spray is between 5.6 and 6.5.
To thin out the solution, and to make it stick to the leaves better, use 1/4 teaspoon of mild soap (IVORY) or dish detergent to each quart of water.
You should spray the tops of the leaves, and spray the undersides too, until the leaf is wet enough that the solution drips off.
Use distilled or filtered water to make your solution.
Only foilage feed in VEG, never in Flowering.
Why do you do it?
To provide fast and instant feeding through the leaves, which reduces stress on the plant.
To provide a quick fix for root-zone nutrient problems or for deficiencies; this allows more time to solve the problem.
To prevent excess yellowing on clones. They can't eat through the roots if they dont have any roots.
Because they love it.
How often do you do it?
I foilage spray them once a week, but I mist with plain pH balanced water as often as every other day if possible.
What do you do AFTER you spray them?
I again put the oscilating fan on High.
I leave the lights raised up high for 15 mintues, then I turn them back on. Then an half hour later, I lower them back to where they were.
