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Isnt Nitrate N chemical form Nitrogen? Wouldnt that kill the microbial life in the soil? I'm not 100% that why i'm asking.
How do you do this?
Nitrates are found all over the place, including in food as a preservative. Calcium Nitrate is an unusual fertilizer, because of the ++ charge on the Calcium. It acts like a cation (++) and a nitrate (anion -). So it's not skewed way over to the growth side.....which is the anionic side.
Cationic forms of nitrogen stimulate reproductive growth. This is your Ammonium stuff; ammonium sulfate, ammonium phosphate, etc. So, this one soil drench has AS and AP, as well as fishy ferts/beneficials, etc. It's basically an organic product with the AS and AP added in to stimulate seed crops to reproduction.
I watered once with that right when I put them in bloom. Yesterday, I gave them their next energy boost and I used Calcium Nitrate and fishy ferts, along with humic acid and a microbial boost. I want to see some swelling.