BK, Your entering the 'try it you may like it zone'.
The "high solution" you speak of may not be desirable.
Less, more often has served top notch people for many moons now.
Test Grow Lights do not need to be expensive or complicated.
We can discuss it if anyone has an interest.
Plants can tell you a lot when they are young and results are
apparent in a hurry. You can also get some super healthy greens
to eat out of the deal.
It may be best to try some new things in between all the pages of study and=
waiting for warm weather. You can stumble onto things.
That super rock dust I mentioned was a total stumble job.
There are effective things going on out there that people are not talking a=
bout very much.
Sometimes there is a lot of untold story when a buck gets involved.
I don't have to agree with someone to list a link.
These people brush on some interesting stuff including the
"Polarity" that I mentioned.
They have a tough crop to foliar spray
and they are in a hurry.
http://turf.unl.edu/extpresentationspdf/GISFoliarSeminar2010.pdf
Ingredients going into your Magic CT / Foliar Feed sprays do not
have to be whipped up in a hurry or nose dive in pH to work properly.
There are a tremendous amount of things to try out if you have
the time and a little budget.
Bill
--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "Burkhard Kiehne" <burkhardkiehne_at_...> =
wrote:
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> Microbeorganics.com describes the mechanisms in the soil and how the plan=
t could control the switch from the vegetative to the generative stage in o=
rder to produce flowers. In specific I am interested what will happen with =
a pepper plant. Assuming you feed the plant well N enriched to create a goo=
d base. To induce flowers you could increase the P-K content in the soil. T=
im Wilson states that in an organic system the plant will not take any nutr=
ients from the soil unless they are broken down into inorganic molecules, b=
ut instead live on the byproducts of microbes alone. I am not sure whether =
this is entirely the case. In my opinion there will be still a certain perc=
entage of molecules passing the rhyzodermis,which are even larger and more =
complex than just simple ions. My first question is whether you still can c=
ontrol the growth of the plant directly by applying certain macro nutrients=
, like high N or high P. What will happen to the microbe-plant symbiosis? W=
ill it be disturbed? If it turns out that it might be better to leave the s=
oil alone in order not to interrupt the symbiotic activities, I would like =
to concentrate on the feeding over the leaves. I read encouraging comments =
to this subject. There are even claims that relatively large molecules are =
able to pass the epidermis and other outer layers. In case of the pepper pl=
ant most tissue of it is above the soil and therefore exposed for treatment=
s. My second question is whether it is not a good idea to spray with vermi =
tea as a base and enhance it with high P-K solution. Does anybody have a go=
od recipe for a fermented P-K solution? How about bonemeal, potash and fine=
ly ground horns and hooves fermented and added to the tea?
>
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