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01-24-2008, 01:08 AM #16
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Foliar Feeding & Liquid Light, Miracle Food or Hoax?
I promise you will not be disappointed, unless of course your plants are already in perfect condition and nothing more could help. I wouldn't be surprised, but as for my plants and I, we both need help.
WH, Rock and other folks, please listen or read carefully: Be sure to use a surfactant AKA wetting agent. If you don't, please do not use Liquid Light as you very well might burn your plants and burn them good. A wetting agent makes the liquid much less likely to form pools on the foliage, which is what causes the magnifying glass effect that will toast the leaves. I have tried Wet Betty and Penetrator. Wet Betty works and is slightly less expensive. Even less expensive is 1/2 teaspoon liquid dish detergent per gallon of water. I imagine that works to a certain degree since I see people everywhere saying that it will work. However, this Liquid Light is unlike anything else you may have foliar fed with. It is some weird, strong, (and expensive) stuff, and I highly recommend using the best surfactant you kind find. I firmly believe that this is Penetrator by Dutch Master, which also makes the Liquid Light. From my own personal experience it covers much better and makes a nice thin film on nearly 100% of the leaf, with very little, if any pooling. Wet Betty did not do this for me; seems like she covered maybe 50-80%. I believe this becomes especially important since directions call for the plants to be wet during lights on, while having the light as close as possible until the plants are dry, unlike other foliar feeds that say to spray just before the lights go out. For more independent studies about Penetrator vs other stuff visit the Dutch Master web site.
Furthermore: This stuff does some weird stuff to your plants. It makes them completely stand up straight and tall and with all their fan leaves stretching up and out, just like when you see the pictures that have captions like "Here's what a happy plant looks like." You can see the plant get shocked from this sudden transformation slightly, in the leaves as a few of them twist and curl for a couple days. This is nothing to be alarmed at since they straighten out later. The whole point is that I want you people to start at half strength. I have not used any other ratio at this point, and I'm thinking it's pretty much enough. Besides that stuff is damn expensive. If you like you can always increase the dose next time, and you can do this up to every other day.
Also don't be surprised if there is a slight bit of coloring or brown spots in a very few places. Just like a few dots where the combination of the light and chemicals did burn the leaf. This is only on a very small percentage of leaf surface area, like less than 0.01% or something. At least that's been my experience.
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