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i have been feeding my plants with canna vega straight in to the soil and heard that leaf feeding with a spray gun type bottle is ment to be better could anyone please help me on this as i am in 2 minds wether to start leaf feeding or not what i need to know is can you leaf feed with the lights on if you have a fan blowing towards the plant and how many times i should leaf feed the plant
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I do not folair feed as leaves are not roots and ferts can burn them. If you choose to spray them remember droplets of water intensify light and water alone can burn the leaf. I would not use over 2ppm but thats just me. Neem oil is straight.
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karma... did you mean 200ppm?
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I would not put 200ppm on my leaves. I ment 2.
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2 ppm?
water out of the tap has higher than 2ppm..
is that your way of saying that you would not spray anything..
NO foilage feeding!!
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O sorry I meant two ppm of added ions. Since leafs do not take in nutes the same as roots I do not beleive in folair myself. Ya my tap water is 110 microsiemens.
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The leaves are like our skin if you go swimming you dont soak in the water or nutes in the water. The only opening is the stoma on the underside of the leaf. The stoma spit out water via transperation and take in CO2. You could kind of put a slight oil on them if you know what your doing but I dont want ions burning my leaves. I just dont see how it would benefit the plant if the leaves can not absorb it. Besides nutes such as organic nitrogen has to be converted into inorganic form by micro-organisms to be absorbed by the roots. The rhizoshpere plays a vital role in nutrient uptake.
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karma..
my monkey friend...
you may have to define 3-6 words from everyone of your posts...
i suspect there are others beside myself that could learn a lot from you.. if you brought us along slowly.. you are dropping many new words and concepts into each of your answers... maybe just drop 1 new word or concept per post and then define it for us...
I am making the presuppostion that you know that you are doing this.. thus I have not pointed out any specific examples....
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Back in the day when overgrow was around, we didn't have to ask these questions... we just looked it up in the FAQ
A easy way that I look up defintions is go to google and type define: (word)
and it gives you the top 10 definitions. I will try to explain myself better in the future.
Ion: salt molecule
folair: spraying of the leaves with nutes
microsemiens: a more acurate way to mearsure tds or ion content then ppm (parts per millionth) that most of the world outside of the United States uses.
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stoma: mouth like opening on the bottom of the leaves that disperse moisture and intake CO2. The final stage of transperation
Transpiration : The loss of water into the atmosphere through the stomata of plants as an essential physiological process.
Physiological: Characteristic of an organism's health or normal function.
Rhizosphere: The soil zone immediately surrounding plant roots, which is modified by the increased number of microorganisms (eg Rhizobia) that live there, in association with plant roots.
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iow, he's saying it's more effective to feed through the roots rather than foliar feed...which i agree. i never foliar feed either and know of no serious growers who do...especially under larger lights. i might spray em down once in a while when they get dusty but otherwise save the sprayer for clones.
ah nice one judging by what you have all said i will stick to soil feeding cheers for taking the time to help me on this one and thanks for taking the time to define some of the words in ya posts karmaxul i must say i dident understand what some of them terms ment so thanks for that
cheers guys :) :) :) :)
Glad to help my friend.
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