I need to stay out of this I don't have enough knowledge to be involved ill help when I can!
I was looking for help with the most basic of the practice because despite my years growing, I've always been intimidated with foliar spraying, and because of that, have stayed far away. Now my ambitions have left me with no choice but to embrace that which I fear, lol. This is me grabbing the bull by the horns and yelling out to you guys, "what do I do next?"
All those Doc Bud high brix guys do a lot of foliars. Not something I’ve done before personally. Whether or not they pay much attention to the science behind it - it shouldn’t be too hard to find some info at least on how they go about it. Graytail grows the way and has a bunch of high brixers on his journal. Lots of organic growers doing foliars but they’ll usually say something like spray every morning at dawn and twice on the full moon with a mix of wood ash, nettles, glacial dust, and tea made with composted newt and ginkgo extract. But they won’t necessarily be able to tell you why.
You make it sound like Harry Potter and sorcery, lol. But I am subbed to most of their journals as well as the main one, and when I presented my hypothesis, I was first warmly embraced until I wasn't, lol. People I think fear change and to have some hydro nut preaching that he intends to accomplish their result in hydro, and enjoying the speed and enhanced yields of hydro I believe has left a shitty taste in quite a few mouths. Or maybe they just think of me as a nut, which is fine with me as well. I don't take any offense from people online, even if it is intended to be as such. I just want to do what I want to do and if I fail along the way, that was my choice to do, but as is now, I have already succeeded, so I am just now trying to be more successful with it. Lots of new ideas, lots of avenues and new things to learn and try out and observe. Aside from te pro mix and worm castings, I have at least 90% of the high brix ingredients, so now I just add water and get to experimenting and playing around. My goal is perfect hydro nutes, but high brix is just validation of that to a certain degree.
I just got back from the hydro shop that was a whopping 7 minutes driving, and the owner who worked at the previous hydro shop I used to get stuff from is my only other source of information outside of the internet. He sort of set me straight about foliar feeding. He suggested putting temp lenses on my COBs while spraying, spray from the underside, once weekly (or less) from late veg to early bloom. I'll have to think about how to make a lens for my fixture. Maybe I'll mount some hangers and slide in a piece of plexi for when I spray, then remove the plexi. All I know is that I do not want to risk accidentally spraying them which will quickly become catastrophic. Also, getting in their at a certain time is not practical for me. I think the happy medium for me is to turn the amps way down to 10%, put the lens on, spray and turn the intensity back to to 50-60% an hour later, or something along those lines.
Now I gotta figure out how many different sprays I'll need/want to make, or can I cram all the goodness into one? In a few days I will be ordering
Triacontanol which is widely believed to be an extreme yield enhancer. I wonder how such a product would jive with high brix, or if it would conflict with it? IDK a whole lot about it, but I think of it like a testosterone steroid that causes cells to attract and retain much more water. But that's just a spitball impression.
