Just two weeks of Growth and...!

Here's the Golden Hops on April 17, in her new 2007 Spring colours, looking 'sharp' ..!

This is the normal colour, so I wonder if it takes warm temperature as well to make it go green again, as it did last July; not just my using Advanced Nutrients and fulvic acid twice a week..?

I started to read about plants and silicates, and was considering adding this stuff to my feeding regimen:

https://www.advancednutrients.com/advancepedia/product.php?productID=3&catID=23

It's liquid potassium silicate, and you just need to use a few drops per litre every time you fertigate the soil.

This hops plant is covered in glassy-sharp cystolith hairs that are perfect for gripping things when climbing, and act like razors to insects ! These sharp hairs are made of silicates and carbonates. Some types of plants are called "silica accumulators" since when they are fed SiO2 like in Advanced Nutrients' Barricade, they pack-on up to 10% more dry weight, all in silicates !

I was going to pre-treat all my soil beds with a generous spray of Barricade, before planting, thinking that if I just packed some into the soil, it would last a while before needing to supplement the roots again with SiO2. Advanced Nutrients does not recommend foliar feeding with SiO2.