Growin' Crazy

Diggin for a livin' ! on Earth Day !

2007-04-24T15:09:00.000-07:00

A "Before" shot of the garden... On April 22' 2007, which was Earth Day !

This year I have five beds to till, inocculate, plant and then love and eat from ... ! One more than last year !

Sunflowers, Phlox, Honeysuckle - Get a head start !

2007-04-24T14:52:00.000-07:00

The first nutrients I used this year were to feed the background of beneficial microbes that were gearing up in the soil.

In addition to the Iguana Juice, I sprayed the soil with fulvic acid and vitamins from B52 and Grandma Enggy's F1.

The sunflowers (left of the F1 bottle) were just above the soil, and, as you can see, some spring perennials got a good shot of nutrients too ! I hope we're frost free too, now ...

Iguana Juice - my choice for a one-part organic-based fertilizer

2007-04-24T14:42:00.000-07:00

I decided to try this product to reduce my labour for foliar feeding and fertilizing. Iguana Juice is a complete fertilizer, with many biostimulants added. It's not too nasty-smelling for having fish-emulsion in it, plus it has an exotic compost-tea type make up, I read here;

https://www.advancednutrients.com/advancepedia/product.php?productID=32&catID=23

It feeds through my hose-sprayer well, and it saves me handling three bottles (Grow, Micro and Bloom) each time I want to fertilize fully. I can always resort to spot-use of Grow, Micro or Bloom. I've only just primed my vegetable beds with it, along with my sprouting sunflowers.

Empress Trees move slowly at First !

2007-04-24T14:37:00.000-07:00

... But apparently they are the fastest growing trees in the world...

Here is a close up of the same bud as shown below, on April 17 2007. This is all that's happened in three weeks...

Grapes too ! Back with huge potential !

2007-04-24T14:28:00.000-07:00

On April 22 2007 my grape plant was looking like it was awake too, finally !

Last year I got about 200 pounds of grapes from my medium sized grape plant. It was luxuriously fed the same fertilizers and biostimulants from Advanced Nutrients, and this start looks awesome !

Just two weeks of Growth and...!

2007-04-24T14:09:00.000-07:00

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.

Return of The Golden Hops !

2007-04-24T13:54:00.000-07:00

On April 1, here is the extent of the growth on my Golden Hops.

Notice that it's 'golden' coloured again. Last season it had been so well nourished by my foliar feeding with Advanced Nutrients' Grow, Micro and Bloom along with Collosal Bud Blast, B52, Voodoo Juice, Piranha and Tarantula, that it became almost all green ! The cone crop was huge too, so if I keep that up, this year will be even better ! !.

And here it is; spiny stemmed, 'golden' leaved and purple, back with a vengance, ready to take it out on the grape plant, growing around it. The grape is still dromant at the time of this photo.

March 25 2007 It's Spring Again !

2007-04-24T13:47:00.000-07:00

My Empress Trees are starting to grow; look at that tiny nub go !

Tis' The Season !

2006-11-30T16:10:00.000-08:00

On Nov. 27 2006 we had a huge snow fall !

Funny to see the pepper, potato and tomato gardens like this; snowed over and dormant.

Washed the Loot !

2006-11-30T16:02:00.000-08:00

Here is the final result, On Nov 19 we had harvested and washed all remaining potatoes.

I peeled and sliced the Yukon Gold and froze them. Now I eat blue mashed potatoes many times weekly !

Note the remnant hot peppers that endured the frosts, and the totally spent tomato garden in teh background.

Crops of Worms and Blue Russian Potatoes.

2006-11-30T15:56:00.000-08:00

Here is the range of sizes of potatoes we found. In excavating this crop There were 100's of monster worms we tossed over into the tomato bed. Not all potatoes were huge, but many were heavier than one pound in weight ! Notice the Monster worm my son is showing against the size of the potato.

I wasn't expecting the worm crop, what a Bonus ! But I'm happy with the Blue Russian Yield !

Worms are picky eaters !

2006-11-30T15:50:00.000-08:00

Here is a shot showing the stratified layers of soil and the area in which all the huge earthworms were congregating. The worms all preferred the rotting stem tissue of the potato plants that was just below the (original ) soil line. There were dozens in that patch of soil where you can see them, in here !

Monster Earthworms and Monster Blue Potatoes !

2006-11-30T13:35:00.000-08:00

Here is a photo from the same harvest, about 1/4 the way through the excavation of the heavily buried crop.

We found dozens of worms as long as the one my son is handling; stretching to 6inches or longer !

A pattern had become apparent; worms as big my finger, monster worms, were always having a feast, living at the base of the plants. Right beneath the old soil-line.

The Purple Poundage !

2006-11-24T10:16:00.000-08:00

Look at this potato's colour ! Amazing ! ... And the yield was high ! over 40 pounds of awesome coloured potatoes from a 5 pound bag of seed potatoes. !

This bed was in the sunniest part of the yard; it got the best of everything. I foliarly fed this crop regularly and used all of Advanced Nutrients' beneficial microbes on it.

While I still had some microbes, I was always liberal with my dial-a-spray loaded up with a solution of symbiotes, hosing all foliage in the garden with the beneficial microbes in Piranha, Tarantula and Voodoo Juice.

I was mostly itrigued by the Trichoderma species in Piranha; I was reading here;
http://www.advancednutrients.com/advancepedia/product.php?productID=44&catID=18

apparently these species of mycorrhizal fungi will grow into plant tissue in a "controlled infection" and thereby protect the root tissue from other fungal invasions. So I just sprayed the foliage too.

It seems ironic; which ever nutrient solution I was using, I was foliar feeding a root crop !

The Blue Russian Potato Crop !

2006-11-24T09:57:00.000-08:00

This is a 'before' photo taken Nov. 19 2006 ... of 'before all the hard work' of starting to dig out the Russian Blue Potatoes began.

In late August, I had put 10 wheel barrow loads of composted manure, 3 wheelbarrows of sandy soil and 7 expanded coir-bricks onto the lanky shoot growth of the potato plants. I dumped alot of soil ontop of the potato crop, and now it all had to be excavated..!

This extra soil was to build up the bed for next year's crops and to see if this would encourage more potatoes to grow from the buried shoots. It did not make any more potatoes, but at the original depth, loads of potatoes were found, see above in the next photos.

How Green Makes Gold !

2006-11-24T09:07:00.000-08:00

Here's a Flashback to August 8 2006; the same area shown below being harvested was amazingly green 11 weeks earlier! What a joy to see this again after having harvested all the great food from the same spot !

Look at this foliar feeding frenzy ! And since this photo was from early August, there were 6 weeks of lush green growth still to 'put ontop' of this crop of green seen here.

Colossal Bud Blast and B52 are amazingly potent products. This green lushness made about 50 pounds of Yukon Gold appear underground ! I am a sworn believer in applying nutrients foliarly, and a convert to Advanced Nutrients' line of products for this.

I found information about Colossal Bud Blast here: http://www.advancednutrients.com/advancepedia/product.php?productID=16&catID=3

In my garden shown here in early August, there was more than twice the folaige you see here by the end of August ! There was more than than twice this festoon of foliage to foliarly feed 2 or 3 times a week ! That's 12 - 18 foliar feedings still to go ! I was obsessed with using my dial-a-spray, but for good reason !

I took a few more photos of this area all season, trying to capture the stupefyingly green lushness that resulted when I foliarly fed with these two products. But I'll save them for later .... we have still to finish harvesting potatoes !

Diggin' For Yukon Gold !

2006-11-24T08:56:00.000-08:00

Lucky Me ! On Nov. 19 I had a helper again !

We discovered an interseting thing; the potato crop was spectacular in the first half of the bed where the sun shone longer each day, but only 'fair' in the rest of the bed. Here my son is digging up the shady section.

In the wetter soil which appeared in the shadow of the fence, the crop yielded only about half of the potatoes as the 'sunny' section. The first half of the bed we harvested in early October (shown below) had about twice the yield.

Before The Frost !

2006-11-24T08:45:00.000-08:00

This was Oct. 4 2006; the first potato harvest was done when the plants were spent. I had Help !

The powdery Mildew had set in everywhere in mypumpkins by the first week of October, but the fruit had ripened perfectly. We had a total of 11 pumpkins from 4 plants, not too many but plenty for Halloween !.

The yellow tomatoes in the background were still holding onto green fruit !

After The Frost !

2006-11-22T11:46:00.000-08:00

This picture was taken Oct. 30 2006 ! The day before Halloween and the day after the first killing frost !

All that's left to harvest is underground; I procrastinated for weeks before starting to dig.

I've left potatoes in the ground all winter or until the soil freezes, but this year I had keen helpers ! We dug up some on Oct 4, the rest on Nov 19 (next photo).

The Day's Harvest!

2006-11-22T11:30:00.000-08:00

Here's the results of the harvest-before-the-first-frost !

All that's left now are the potatoes !

Picked a Peck !

2006-11-21T20:14:00.000-08:00

There !.. the frost won't get at these !

Count the Jalapenos !

2006-11-21T19:24:00.000-08:00

If you click on the photo and enlarge to full size, you can see the pepper crop that's in there. There are reams of shiny fruit ! I had to prop up all the pepper plants ages ago, but this is it; it all comes down now !

I got a total of about 40 pounds of Jalapenos !

I have not used up all my nutrients, however all my beneficial microbes were used up halfway through this first season I used Advanced Nutrients products.

Posing Peppers and Pumpkins

2006-11-21T19:07:00.000-08:00

A Harvest set up; a freshly cut banana pepper plant posing in the sun.

Not a bad yield either, and this plant had not over-ripened. I procrastinated on harvesting the peppers until the frost season. Just the potatoes remain after this crop.

The Hot Ones !

2006-11-21T18:47:00.000-08:00

These are fantastically hot ! But I picked all the red ones before the first frost that night. The foliage covers over how dense the fruit-set is; there are peppers all over !

Except for 'over-ripe' fruit, there was no pestilence of any kind on all three pepper varieties; no bugs, no molds.

All my peppers were foliarly fed with the nutrient products I showed below, but I also used foliar sprays of all the Advanced Nutrients microbial products (Voodoo Juice, Piranha, Tarantula). My foliar feeding methods always had generous run-off, but I hosed the nutrients onto them covering their foliage first.

I wonder if microbes living in higher numbers in the above-ground plant tissues (stems, leaves, fruit and flowers) affects ripening..? Would they lengthen the ripening period of shorten it..? I will have 2 crops of hot peppers to pick, the first one is shown here on Oct. 29, 2006.

Hyper Ripe Banana Peppers

2006-11-21T18:34:00.000-08:00

These ought to have been picked weeks ago; there were some with splits and soft-rot.

Swollen nodes again ! An exaggerated caricature of growth in such pumped plants !

Splitting Open A Node

2006-11-21T12:37:00.000-08:00

Inside a swelling the growth was layered. I could not tell much more without a microscope.

No pigments other than some green, and I wonder if the puffy tissue is infected by symbiotic microbes..?

These ones are the ones I'm guessing might have made it into the roots, and flowed up the stem, lodging here to grow:

http://www.advancednutrients.com/advancepedia/product.php?productID=63&catID=18

Super Swollen Nodes !

2006-11-21T11:43:00.000-08:00

Time to dissect open one of these swollen nodes !

Here again is what had grown at the branch-points on my pepper crop; big, bulbous swellings that became pigmented. These swellings continued to increase in size all year.

Both my banana and jalapeno peppers had this kind of growth, and itstarted after I applied Piranha and Tarantula, the two beneficial microbe products made by Advanced Nutrients.

The Ripened Colours

2006-11-21T11:30:00.000-08:00

All season long this dark-purple pigmentation has been developing more and more in the upper nodes of the plants, and eventually into the fruit.

You can't see any in this photo, but all my pepper plants were still trying to make flowers, even on the last day of the season.

Loaded with Fruit !

2006-11-21T11:24:00.000-08:00

Here is a picture from October 29, 2006 showing what the jalapeno plants were bearing; absolutely loaded with peppers !

I decided to harvest this day since there was a frost warning for the next night.

Back to the Pepper Crop

2006-11-21T11:07:00.000-08:00

My crop of peppers was also very bountiful ! And my harvest of jalapenos and banana peppers yielded way more than I could use.

Here's a picture from October 29 2006; the day before the first frost. My son can barely hold up the two plants he's holding; they are totally loaded with fruit !

I posed my line of Advanced Nutrients here to give a perspective on how much growth has happened since July. I posted a similar picture way back.

Next Year's Growth.

2006-11-21T10:21:00.000-08:00

Yes; I'm obsessed with this tree !

On Nov. 18 2006 I took this close up of the main stem on my Empress Tree; it shows the details of the abscission layer where one of those elephant-ear-sized leaves was connected to the main stem/trunk. My finger points at this indentation.

Above the abscission layer you can see the tiny meristem; it has three 'bumps' inside the little raised 'chevron' shape. This will give rise to a huge new branch next spring.

All so Young ! !

2006-11-14T20:24:00.000-08:00

On July 5 2006 I took this shot ! My kids with my 'baby' Empress Tree. Can you believe it grew to over 8 feet in 12 weeks ..?!

I had been using Advanced Nutrients Grow, Micro and Bloom for just one week at this point. I also started with the B52 and Colossal Bud Blast in mid July. By the end of July I had started to inocculate with Piranha, Tarantula and Voodoo Juice.

My kids grew too during the 12 weeks, but not thanks to foliar feeding !

The Signal to Grow !

2006-11-14T17:40:00.000-08:00

Speaking of Lush Green ! This photo is also from late September 2006.

I had taken this photo under the canopy of my Empress Tree; I am holding the same pumpkin shoot my son was holding in the previous photo.

Notice the shape, the 'hook' in the end of the pumpkin plant's shoot...?

Still now, in the beginning of autumn, this pupmkin plant is signalling with it's 'downturned' growing tip, that it has all the intentions to keep growing; this must be some kind of geotropism, since the undisturbed shoot hangs the 'hook' down, towards the ground. And notice the fruit it's STILL setting !

When my other pumpkins, growing in another area, lost this 'hooked' growth in the tips of their shoots, they totally stopped growing. The shoot became 'straight', but still looked healthy. But growth ceased, and suddenly powdery mildew took over these plants.

A Reminder of The Lushness !

2006-11-14T17:30:00.000-08:00

Here is another shot from Late September 2006.
I wanted to look at some lush green again, since the last two photos from November are so bleak !
All this area was foliarly fed with my set of Advanced Nutrients products. Compare this shot to the ones I posted in the beginning of the season !

The pumpkin shoot my son is holding started in the corner where the fences meet. From there it snaked around the perimeter of 3 sides of the garden before 'escaping' into the morning glory and running towards the empress tree.

The Last Leaf....!

2006-11-14T16:51:00.000-08:00

Senescence ! ... Another shot from Nov 14 2006. After this one is gone, my Empress Tree is asleep until Spring.

This is such a lonely leaf... ! The last one grown, is the last one dropped !

I collected each leaf that fell; I had a stack of elephant-ears sized 'sheets' to lay on the compost pile! Like some kind of stack of laundry

... Funny how I am even feeling lonely 'for her', when I don't see her at all now. She used to dominate her zone and 'greet me', she'd becon me to feed her every day !

All That's Left !

2006-11-14T16:39:00.000-08:00

To contrast ... before and after ... the frost.

Here she is again; my Empress Tree, with no leaves left, on Nov 18 2006 ! The kids obliged another pose...

So I can't wait to see her come back next year..!

The Advantage of Foliar Feeding !

2006-11-14T16:15:00.000-08:00

Here is the comparison again: this Empress Tree was foliarly fed with my set of Advanced Nutrients products..!

This picture was taken in late September. Actually I hosed everything with regular foliar feedings, but the Empress Tree got it almost every day.

I used Grow, Micro, Bloom applying each separately. Then I used B52 and Colossal Bud Blast 1 - 2 times a week, as I applied these foliarly to the whole garden.

This Empress Tree also got root-fed; the 'left overs' that couldn't be siphoned out of the dial-a-spray reservoir thrown onto the soil at it's base. Voodoo Juice, Piranha and Tarantula too. So it got it good ! And you can tell !

Notice the pumpkin shoot in my son's hand ...! It has way-outgrown it's garden and reached a length of over 45 feet, and it is still setting friut !

An Empress Tree That Did Not Get Advanced Nutrients !

2006-11-13T22:07:00.000-08:00

Here is a comparison: I took this photo on Oct 6 2006 of another Empress Tree that was planted exactly the same time as I planted mine. This tree recieved waterings but no Advanced Nutrients fertilizers. Compare this tree with the one I have shown below..!

My Empress Tree was smaller than this when I planted it, but now after I foliarly fed it all season with my selection of Advanced Nutrients products, mine is taller than 8 feet !

This tree is as old as the one I have shown below, but it never recieved any Advanced Nutrients fertilizers during all of 2006. Poor thing ! ... But it's hanging in there..!

This to me is a stunning example of just how potent regular foliar feeding can be; I foliarly fed my Empress Tree at least twice a week, but usually more frequently if it was sunny. My tree's leaves were 16 inches long and 12 inches wide ! These are 3-4 inches across !

After the First Frost !

2006-11-13T21:58:00.000-08:00

Here we are on Oct 30 2006; just ten hours after the first frost.

The damage on my Empress Tree from the frost event covers 80% of the foliage. Lower leaves that did not have as much radiative heat loss and did not appear damaged.

It seemed as though having leaves above them 'protected' them from the frost, or perhaps the ground had a little residual heat, and protected the lower foliage.

By Nov. 7, almost all leaves had been dropped, and all that remains is a 8 foot stalk.

My Empress Tree Before The First Frost.

2006-11-13T21:47:00.000-08:00

Here is a photo from Oct 4 2006 showing how HUGE my Empress Tree has grown. In April, this tree was less than half the height of my daughter!

Compare this photo to the next one showing the damage that appeared just 10 hours after the first frost of the year.

In March of 2006 it was a bare twig, just 20 inches tall. Now look at it ! I foliarly fed it all summer with all my Advanced Nutrients products, and it sure responded with massive growth !

However I also gave these fertilizers to the root-zone as well, so it got an all-around Advanced Nutrients menu all year !

Imagine what it will become next year if it reached > 8 feet this year !

Perfectly Ripe Grapes !

2006-11-13T21:16:00.000-08:00

Here on Oct 29, 2006 is a picture of the grape crop I produced at it's ripest.

These are the two bunches I have been photographing all summer long.

Before this date I had picked off all but one last batch to juice. These last 20 pounds of grapes were the sweetest of all. The first frost of the season was the following night on Oct. 29.

Next year to see if it helps prevent the chlorosis I will foliarly feed later into September, and to finish off the fruit setting I'll also use Advanced Nutrients' Overdrive during the last month of ripening. I wonder if it's appropriate for foliar application as well?

Over-ripe Hops !

2006-11-13T19:48:00.000-08:00

Here we are on Oct 29 2006. My Golden Hops plant has become over-ripened, and still has a totally seedless crop of cones.

Had I only known what to do with the abundant crop of cones !

For 8 years I have been growing this same plant, but this year regenreating it from a root stock I transplanted, it grew grew into something different. It was green not "golden' and it made the stinkiest buds and 'cones' ever ! Plus it grew into a monster, whereas last year it was a pipsqueak of a perennial vine.

I attribute the unbridaled growth of my hops plant, the 'overcoming' of its genetic predisposition to be 'golden' and be green, and the incredible stench of the flower-cones to my coordinated use of the Advanced Nutrients products I mentioned below.

I foliarly fed this hops with B52 and Colossal Bud Blast on alternating days all summer long, twice a week at least. I used the suite of beneficial microbes made by Advanced Nutrients each week until mid August. My base-nutrients were Advanced Nutrients 3-part Grow-Micro-Bloom.

Next Year .. just imagine what he root stock will come out with ! ... !

Perfectly Ripe Hops !

2006-11-07T22:14:00.000-08:00

Here on Oct. 4 2006 is a picture of my Golden hops plant. This is the 'perfect ripeness for harvesting the cones.

I'm holding the same "leafy cone" I photographed earlier, and posted below.

At this stage the seedless, female flowers are at peak ripeness. The skunky aroma they had three weeks ago has become a strong smell of garlic ! Crushing a flower in your fingers makes a sticky and intensely fragrant blast !

There are no seeds in this crop as no male plants were anywhere close.

However, since I had no use for the flowers, I chose to just leave the crop to ripen further on the vine. Perhaps a seed or two just might form, I hoped.

Grapes Ahoy !

2006-11-07T22:02:00.000-08:00

On Oct. 4 2006 I began to harvest grapes from this side of the vine; 45 litres of juice are now in my freezer !

Back to the Grape

2006-11-07T21:36:00.000-08:00

Here we are on Oct. 4 2006.

These are the same two bunches of grapes I have been photographing all season, showing their increasing ripening. I'm leaving them on the vine for as long as possible.

I have a steam-juicer ready to go ! The next photo shows the ripest bunches to be picked

The Last Ripe Tomato Harvest

2006-11-07T20:33:00.000-08:00

On Oct.9 2006 this was the scene; only green ones left on the vine.

Mutant Tomato !

2006-11-07T20:12:00.000-08:00

I found a few weirdly-shaped fruit ..!

This one I nicknamed Quato from:

http://www.michaeldavy.com/gallery/2_quato.html

Sprawling Harvest !

2006-11-07T19:57:00.000-08:00

On Oct. 4 I had to pick again !

This left one more full picking to harvest before teh frosts arrive.

A four Pound Hand full !

2006-10-04T14:54:00.000-07:00

This close up shows the weight of the crop up close.

I am holding about 4 pounds of tomato-weight on this one branch !

I still see swelling too each day ! But I only water the soil, when it's dry. And the colour is changing fast too !

I imagine all residual nutrients and minerals in the soil is being scavenegd by the mycorrhizae I got growing using "Piranha". There is a surface "mesh' about one inch deep in all my soil beds where I used Piranha, Tarantula and Voodoo Juice. I can imagine how they are pumping a final surge of nutrition into these fat juicy red monster tomatoes...!

Big Colour and Size !

2006-10-04T14:13:00.000-07:00

On Oct 4 2006 over 50% of the fruit had turned red enough to pick.

And it's also gotten Huge ! This plant weights many pounds still, and I've taken almost 50% off already !

I'm leaving the rest of the fruit on the vine for now ! The weather is warm; 9 deg.C at night, 19 C in the day. I pick just those that will drop.

My First Picking !

2006-10-04T14:03:00.000-07:00

This is my first-pass pick from all the tomatoes I have been growing.

On Sept 16 2006 I had to start to pick big-time ! .. or "full Time" since picking and processing has not stopped for three weeks. And since I work during the day, I can only harvest and process in the evenings...

Cherry Tomato Gaspachio ... !

I made "orange" tomato sauce when the sweet yellows are mixed in ...!

I have enough bulk-frozen, blanched Beefsteaks to last a year !

My hot peppers, oregano, sage and basil are added to other boiled-down tomato stews...

The Poundage One Month Later !

2006-10-04T13:52:00.000-07:00

This photo taken Oct. 3 2006 should be compared to the one I posted below from Sep. 5. These are my beefsteak tomatoes, from which I've been picking fruit every week now since Sept 23.

Notice how the weight was so excessive that the plants collapsed back down their support-strings.

I have quit all foliar feeding for over a month, and hosed water to the roots only. A few days of heavy rain in September rinsed all the garden's foliage.

The colours are kicking in late, I feel, but Holey Moley is the yield high in terms of weight! I have picked at least 50 lbs of tomatoes already from in here ! I can't keep up with processing all this fruit !

I had to go get another freezer ! I boil up a batch to freeze everynight now... !

Cone-head..?

2006-09-27T13:48:00.000-07:00

This is a close up of a strange hops cone I found. It formed as the last outgrowth at the tip of the vine, and it's become a "leafy cone"..? Notice the leaves growing out of the cone..?!

There are no others I can see like this, like the growth was still comitted to vegetative tissue (leaves) as the cone 'set' in its growth around the leafy shoot tip..?

Growth gone Crazy..?

Normal cones are shown in the background

Golden Blonde and Green Hops !

2006-09-27T13:10:00.000-07:00

This shot was taken Sep. 13 2006. Again I was trying to show the range of colouration that was appearing in the huge hops plant that has grown this year using the Advanced Nutrients products I tried. I used foliar feeding allowing lots torun-off into the soil.

I posted a shot earlier from Aug. 30, just 2 weeks before this, and the plant has continued to go-green ! The cone crop is also heavy enough to 'dangle' with dense, weight.

I have grown this same plant for over 8 years and it has never looked like this; I might have "overdone" the fertilizer inputs, or used so many growth enhancing products that these things just happen; cell growth is turned on almost uninhibitedly.

Look at the velvety, deep green on the leaf I'm holding, and the paler yellow ones that have a bleach-blonde colour. All the leaves have healthy tissue, but usually they are mostly yellow, never "all green". The cones look a little greener than normal too, but are incredibly fragrant.

I think I have overcome the (genetic?) mechanism that keeps Golden Hops the predominantly "gold" and yellow colour that is has..! We had a warm, perfect summer and this plant had experienced just one season in it's current location. I understand that this Golden Hops strain makes lots of yellow pigments that mask the green chlorophyll present. How has my rich nutrient program undone, overcome or modifiedthis genetic trait of Golden Hops..?

I used lots of seaweed extract, vitamins and the full suite of beneficial microbes made by Advanced Nutrients, on top of the 3-part Grow-Micro-Bloom base nutrient program they make.
It seemed like another wave of greening swept up the plant in mid August after I did one last feeding with Piranha, Tarantula and Voodoo Juice. I imagine this happened since a background of soil-bound nutrients was suddenly being force-fed to the plant, but who knows.

I continued to foliarly feed with Colossal Bud Blast and B52 until early September.

Early Hops Crop !

2006-09-26T01:09:00.000-07:00

This is on September 10 2006.

My Golden hops plant has got a full crop of cones. But since I have no male hops plants around to pollenate this female has made seedless flowers. They just reek of strong German Beer when you crush one in your fingers !

Notice the way the foliage changes colours going from pale-golden to bluish-green ! That green colour keeps creeping up the plant; it's from from late season fertilizing with all my Advanced Nutrients fertilizers.

Still two weeks to go !

2006-09-26T00:57:00.000-07:00

This was also taken September 12 2006. These grapes are going to be ready by October for sure!

Nutrient shortage ?

2006-09-25T23:24:00.000-07:00

This is the nutrient defficiency I am seeing on my grapes. It's scattered throughout the plant but mostly on the leaves at the end of the longest vines. Leaves have green veins, and are pale overall.

I am wondering if the plant at this late-season stage is funnelling it's leaves' reserves into making fruit ?

Maybe this condition results before leaves fall off? If nutrients and reserves in the leaves and stems get directed into fruit production. So maybe this is normal ?

Advanced Nutrients makes that product called Overdrive specifically to feed the plant's high need for nutrition during the fruit bearing stage. I wonder if it prevents this from happening ? I found some reading about it here:

http://www.advancednutrients.com/advancepedia/product.php?productID=41&catID=18

Or, I wonder if this would have been avoided if I had carried on using Colossal Bud Blast and B52 for longer..?

However my fruit yield is almost insane !

Grape Explosion

2006-09-25T23:15:00.000-07:00

This shot was taken Sep. 13 2006, showing how the grape crop I have Grown has been ripening well !.

What you can see isn't all of what's there, under the foliage it's ridiculously laden, full of bunches of grapes ! Look up to the left, it just gets thicker and thicker !

The fruit is still sour, but in three weeks I'll have to plan to make wine or juice, !

I used all my Advanced Nutrient's products onthis crop, but I think it could have been still undernourished. I sprayed foliar feedings once a week and applied all my nutrients to the roots as well.

Still, some foliage on the ends of the vines appear lacking in some nutrient; perhaps I need to feed grape plants this big with a much richer regimen.? I didn't use enough beneficial microbes perhaps..?

Deep Purple Peppers !

2006-09-25T22:51:00.000-07:00

Sept 10 2006.

My jalapenos in close-up showing the spreading of pigments into the fruit.

It looks black almost, but this is the same purple that arose in the lowest branch points and nodes of the pepper plants after I applied Advanced Nutrients' mycorrhizae and beneficial bacteria.

Apparently beneficial bacteria will live in any part of the host-plant, not just the roots. They will move all the way up the plant, causing growth to increase around them and 'upstream' of where they settle down to live. Like in those swollen, purple nodes I showed a awhile back. This 'black' pepper is growing out of a purple coloured node too.

I am amazed by the yield from all my pepper varieties !

Riddled with Hot Peppers !

2006-09-25T22:25:00.000-07:00

Here is a photo from Sept 10 2006 of one of my hot pepper plants.

By pulling back the foliage I am trying to show the incredible load of fruit that's present; it's incredible !

This seems unusually dense with peppers, even for this variety. It appers like there was nothing that inhibited the formation and setting of flowers into fruit. Staring back in July every branch-point or node on the stem that could make a flower did, and continues to do so even in September ! This plant fell over with it's weight.

Wrestling Peppers ?!

2006-09-21T22:14:00.000-07:00

Sep. 5 2006; the same pepper crop photographed with a flash !

Notice the purple steaks and the purple, swollen branch nodes.

I had to clear away foliage to get this clear view, but the whole understory of the banana peppers is like this.! Then there's a second crop of fruit set above this early set.

I am so impressed by the overgrowth of fruit.. ! Like it's impossible to waste any space when flowering is so dense, and fruit has to fight for space .! I have never seen this before, maybe it's not that unusual.?

I am suspecting that this over-flowering is caused by the symbiotic microbes I used in July and August; all plant growth became 'denser' and more branched or covered in flowering points once I added generous amounts of Tarantula, Piranha and Voodoo Juice.

Knots of Peppers !

2006-09-21T22:01:00.000-07:00

This is a shot taken Sep. 5 of my banana peppers.! I have six plants like this, falling over themselves with the weight of their fruit !

Notice the purple streaking on some of them, this is showing up on all my peppers. I suspect it's the effects of beneficial microbes since this started in the nodes of stems much lower on the plant right after I used Voodoo Juice and the other Advanced microbial products (Tarantula and Piranha).

After using these products the stems got all swollen at branching points and then purple streaks formed 'upstream' of the swollen nodes. And then it seems as though the effects flowed all the way to the fruit... look at this yeild !

Curled Foliage

2006-09-14T22:36:00.000-07:00

Sep. 5 2006

Only the Beefsteak Tomatoes have this strange leaf shape, but colour is close to normal, and leaves are expanded to full size.

I wonder if the growth straightens out at some later time.>? Or are the ripening fruits sucking out one or two elements required to grow flat leaves..?

I saw that Advanced Nutrients has a few products to assist with the nutritional needs of plants during ripening. It seems like a good idea to boost plant metabolism with assorted nutrients since the load of ripening fruit suck up water, sugars, amino acids and minerals.

"Overdrive" still seems like the most interetsing to me and my outdoor, foliar fed gardens. I like the fact that it has select vitamins, fulvic acid and minerals to increase P and K. The store clerk was trying hard to sell me on it, but I have a little Colossal Bud Blast still to finish this crop with.

The Poundage !

2006-09-14T22:24:00.000-07:00

Sep. 5 2006... Look at the fruit ! inside the cover of leaves it's solid fruit in places ! Weighty !

I estimate I'll get 200 pounds of beefsteak tomatos by Oct 4.

But the strange leaf curl you can see has been increasing all week. Which nutrient is out of balance..? An overdose or lack of something..?

Sunset Showing Yield !

2006-09-14T22:10:00.000-07:00

Sep. 3 2006

Sometimes the light is just right. You can see the fruit even if it's green.

Sky Bound !

2006-09-11T19:06:00.000-07:00

Sep. 4 2006,

To contrast the buried potatoes growing underground, I have to show off my Paulonia, that now exceeds 7 feet !

I have decreased foliar feeding the whole garden, alternating with fresh water, but this huge surface area still get's it when I'm out with the dial-a-spray.

This tree makes massive fragrant flowers in the spring.

Potato Mound

2006-09-11T18:49:00.000-07:00

Like a sarcophagus is underthere !... This photo still shows the streaks of black Humic acid powder I applied.

After it plugged up my dial-a-spray I just made a slurry of it and tried to 'throw' it evenly around the mound.

I thought I had found a cheaper solution to using extracted, liquid Humic acid, like Advanced Nutrients makes (Grandma Enggy's "H2" it's called) but no... not worth the hassle, and mess, and uneven application the powder offers. This year I chose to spend my money on the fulvic acid, but next year I'll use both.

Potato Burial

2006-09-11T18:32:00.000-07:00

On August 30 2006 I layered peatmoss, some mineral soil, rich topsoil, and 7 bricks of Coir onto my Russian Blue Potato stems. I was hoping to induce a second crop of potatoes from the > 2foot long stems.

I built a "retaining wall" and covered the majority of the potato stems with this mix of media, and then tried to apply raw Leonardite I had picked up as a source of cheap Humic acids. I had a granular, dusty powder of "raw humates"; it was a mess to apply and plugged my dial-a-spray !

For next year, this area will be a turbo charged growing spot, as all the residual fertilizers and microbes from my foliar feeding will carry over. The soil gets warmed lot, and get's all my overspray from foliar feeding.

Photosynthesize me !

2006-09-11T18:16:00.000-07:00

Aug. 30 2006

If only I could capture with a camera the "true" green in here..>! Sitting here makes me feel like I'm turning green too..!

CO2 is being supplemented by the composter adjacent to this part of the garden; the garden has swamped the composter

I water my compost bin as well to promote the microbial activity that makes CO2. Temperature, moisture, nutrition and soil-type are all ideal, and any 'spare' CO2 will get sucked up into that green jungle !

I was reading that Advanced Nutrients makes a product called "Overdrive" can boost photosynthetic capture of energy..? ...something called the Ascorbate-Mehler reaction discovered in the 1990's?

This stuff called Overdrive is formulated to promote the Ascorbate-Mehler reaction. Anyone tried it..? It's a "finisher" too with N-P-K low in nitrogen.

Ahhh That's Better !

2006-09-08T13:41:00.000-07:00

Seeing this makes me feel better! Green and lush and loving it !

Apparently the male flowers of pumpkins are edible..?

This is the edge where the pumpkins escaped the battle with the potatoes, and can now free-range for foliar feeding !

Horrors !

2006-09-08T13:30:00.000-07:00

Augist 30 2006. Powdery Mildew From Hell !

I have sprayed milk diluted in water, baking soda ( burnt some leaf edges), and earlier I evencut off infested leaves. Now it's too late to bother.

Is there even a living, photosynthesizing organism left under that ! ..? can it transpire water to the fruits to swell them up >!? This is the same variety of pumpkin as the others I have planted.

The store rep' I spoke with showed me an Advanced Nutrients product called Scorpion Juice that could be used to prevent this, but I would have had to be using all along to really exploit how it works. It induces plant immunity when you foliarly apply it, before the disease sets in. ... One for next year !

Only this one plant has proven weak enough to do that..? why ? .. the new soil and what else..? What's out of balance..?

The Powdery Mildew Free Zone !

2006-09-08T13:24:00.000-07:00

Here is the comparison; this area is the old compost soil area. Growth is ridiculously lush and there's No powdery mildew as of August 30 2006 !

The Pumpkins have continued to grow leading out to the left of this photo, mildew free.

Imagine the joy of foliarly feeding all that !

Compare that to the next photo !

Powdery Mildew Sets in !

2006-09-08T13:17:00.000-07:00

What a Bummer !.. This is my only pumpkin plant to give up the ghost to Powdery Mildew.

Here on August 30, 2006 you can see it has spread to about half the way down the vine. The disease started on the lower leaves and moved up the plant.

I believe it happened to this plant since it lacked something in the "new soil" it was planted in. My other pumpkins have not yet succumber to any !

As long as the vine stays intact and teh disease just covers the leaves, I hope the pumpkins keep growing !

The "Ripening" Formula

2006-09-08T13:13:00.000-07:00

My watering and mixing station.

I was down to using just these fertilizers After August 28 , 2006.

I used the same rate, applying 1200 mS/cm EC maximum of just Bloom and Micro, plus all B52 and Colossal Bud Blast.

The Cherry Tomatoes had been ripening since August 15...

Yellow Tomato Yeild is Early !

2006-09-08T13:08:00.000-07:00

Here are my Super Sweet Yellow Tomatoes, August 28 2006.

This variety certainly sets fruit sooner, and makes an effort to ripen faster. I've been eating these for weeks now, and some were already picked before I photographed this day.

I counted ten ripe ones when I took this photo, with some potato leaves in the way.

Beefsteaks ripen Slowly

2006-09-08T13:03:00.000-07:00

August 28 2006; I can count 20 green tomatoes visible inthis photo, plus the one red one.

Under the foliage it looks like the previous two photos; over-burdened with ripening fruit !

I estimate September 25 before I need to start a big "harvest operation", and prepare a salsa-making-station !

In Earthly Light

2006-09-08T12:48:00.000-07:00

The same area under the canopy of my beefsteaks; Unreal yield, I try to capture with a camera, but Green on green is hard to get !

Notice my tie-up technique, it doesn't pinch, and the branches grip themselves as I wind growth around the string.

Alien Tomatoes !?

2006-09-08T12:44:00.000-07:00

I used the flash..! These are the fruit set on the "inside" of the plant's canopy. It's sick, massively over "hung' with fruits !!

I jumped back surprised at finding these ridiculous amounts of pale green tomatoes !

August 28 2006, and only one or two Beefsteak have turned to red; these look white with the flash !

Heavy Yield !

2006-09-08T12:39:00.000-07:00

August 28 2006, trying to capture the fruit set.. ! This is what the outside looks like, check out what the the "inside" looks like in my next picture !

Tomato Yield

2006-09-08T12:32:00.000-07:00

August 23 2006; my tomato patch in "new Soil".

Looking Good..! the fruit is starting to show, and those strings are taught ! When you open up the foliage and peek inside, it's amazing ! There's a frightening amount of ripening fruit !

I planted the cherry Tomatoes on the wrong side, as they cast a shadow in the afternoon onto the beefsteaks.

Pepper Yield

2006-09-08T12:24:00.000-07:00

August 23 2006. My pepper patch, in the "new soil" area.

For perspective, I 'posed' my watering station; I set this up when I take out the dial-a-spray refill the reservoir right by my hose. The Voodoo Juice bottle was empty after this irrigation seesion.

The bottles are the same size, but the plants have gotten huge ! .. the flowers of the THIRD ! setting are showing through as white dots. These plants are held up by multiple stakes.

The photo below about "swollen nodes" was taken in this patch.

Potato Flower

2006-09-07T20:22:00.000-07:00

August 14 2006

A picture of my Russian Blue potato flowers; these bloomed like crazy but I had hardly any blossoms on the yukon gold that grew in "old compost", it seemed strange.

But the Russian Blue potatoes are growing in "new soil" that likley has less background nutrients; maybe that's why they made a huge crop of flowers. I wonder if it is the variety difference of the nutrient difference that triggered lots of flower formation in the Russian Blues..?

POtato POwer !

2006-09-07T20:15:00.000-07:00

August 14 2006.

I have two types of potatoes; in the foreground are the Russian Blue, and in the far corner behind the black composter are the Yukon Gold.

I buried the stems of the Russian Blue at the end of August, but all of my potatoes have been inoculated by spraying with Tarantula, Piranha and Voodoo Juice. Apparently it is common practice for farmers to use mycorrhizae on potatoes, a root crop.

Still No Powdery Mildew

2006-09-07T20:11:00.000-07:00

August 14 2006; The pumpkin in the foreground is the only one I have that got infested with powdery mildew, but here it is still free of the disease.

Still dripping

2006-09-07T20:07:00.000-07:00

I had just foliarly fed ...This shot shows the early fruit set; it's hard to photograph green fruit on green foliage and have the fruit stand-out. Beefsteak in teh foreground cherry tomatoes in the back

Huge Coverage !

2006-09-07T19:20:00.000-07:00

I'm a chronic foliar feeder ! These are My gardens on August 12 2006; all the green you see was covered by one fill of my dial-a-spray.

One, 1 litre Jug of a dial-a-spray covers all this area; the "new soil" garden in the foreground, and all the background greenery, over in the "old Copmpost Pile" area near my cat.

I use 30 ml of these products in 1000 ml of the dial-a-spray, this is a 33.3 X dilution. Then I set the dial-a-spray to suck 60ml per litre of water passing through the nozzle; this is a further 16.6 dilution.

33.3 x 16.6 = 555.5 ! ... A 555 times dilution ! This is a high rate of dilution; these products I use are therefore very concentrated, as measured by EC or the look of my garden.

But I apply every 2 - 5 days depending on weather, and I use fulvic acid in most fertilizer sprays to help penetrate. There is humic acid in B52 and Colossal Bud Blast that will also act like fulvic acid, spreading, chelating, and promoting uptake.

The Smell of The Ocean

2006-09-07T19:03:00.000-07:00

I should explain what I mean by the smell of seaweed extract. ! I spray Colossal Bud Blast on everything.

Colossal Bud Blast has a real aroma of seaweed; it's part of the ingredients.

I used to try to use a product called "Seaspray" that was a boiled-down liquid extract of Ascophylum nodosum. I tried to inject this stuff, but it clogged everything with stringy seaweed gel. I got fond of the aroma of seaweed then, since when I could smell it I knew it was getting onto the crops. If I couldn't smell it, something had plugged up.

If you get a strong concentrate, seaweed extract is really potent at promoting plant growth (auxins and cytokinins) and stress resistance ("betaines") so I was keen on using some. I bought Colossal Bud Blast since I was told it had some in it. And after smelling my garden, I'm sure it is loaded with it !

The aroma lasts only while things are wet; I spray the foliage the next day with water to wash and re-dissolve the "left overs" of the foliar spray back into the leaves and soil.

The Program

2006-09-07T18:46:00.000-07:00

Here, on August 12 2006 the fruit is starting to show ! The strings are bearing some weight !

These tomatoes have been foliarly fed since planting June 12, using the ingredients shown here. I inoculated with Piranha, Tarantula and Voodoo Juice too.

This is the area I planted with "new soil"; I threw in peatmoss and worked it deep. All nutrition was delivered with a dial-a-spray using these products.

I used 30 ml of each product ( One Turkey baster full of each) in 1000 ml water, injected through my dial-a-spray set to 60 ml per litre.

My useage rates applied an EC of 1200 mS/cm, spraying just ONE product at a time. So for separately applying Grow, Micro, Bloom, B52 and Colossal Bud Blast, I had to spray five times... But it at 60ml/litre it goes by quick. I added 15 - 25 ml Fulvic acid to the Grow, Micro and Bloom sprays to help penetrate.

The "foliar feeding" runs off into the soil, so the plants get bathed in nutrition; the vitamins feed the soil microbes too. The seaweed extracts in Colossal Bud Balst makes it smell like the ocean!

See through Cells!

2006-09-06T16:38:00.000-07:00

I was fooling around with the camera, and found this was an interesting shot; the sun shining through my Paulonia Tomentosa up close. This leaf is 2 or 3 times the size of my head !

A massive photosynthetic flag; sucking up CO2... pouring out Oxygen...

Imagine being able to shrink down to the size of a stomata, so you could crawl inside and hang out in this fleshy leaf ! the walls be would dripping wet, see-through, translucent green. You might see me coming with the dial-a-spray!

Unreal Foliage !

2006-09-06T16:28:00.000-07:00

But No It's real .. ! It's so amazing to see this prehistoric size inmy backyard !

My Paulonia tree was just a 20 inch tall twig in the spring; by the time this photo was taken on August 14 2006, it was over six Feet tall !!

The pumpkin shoot "hook" that points downwards

2006-09-06T16:20:00.000-07:00

Here is what I meant about the "hook" of the growing pumpkin shoot. A photo from August 24 2006.

This pumpkin shoot is so vigorous that it feels like a snake, it's "meaty" and thick, flexible but so "pumped" with turgidity it might "burst" if I hit it against something..! A living cord or rope that stretches 6 inches or more a day !

I have taken this photo to show the shape of the growing tip; on healthy plants it always points downward. When ever I have found a pumpkin shoot-tip that is not doing this, the vine has stopped growing. It must be a plant-hormone signal that keeps this "hook" shape and growth continuing..?

Powdery Mildew Free Season !

2006-09-06T16:18:00.000-07:00

This photo of my backyard growing area called the "new soil" garden was taken on August 14 2006. This garden required continual feeding with my soluble fertilizers to keep well nourished. I also used my B52 and Colossal Bud Blast to supplement the basic Grow-Micro-Bloom fertilizers. All beneficial microbes were also used here.

There was a perfect point in mid August when all plants were lushly growing and not a stitch of powdery mildew was to be found, just liek you see here.

Then this one pumpkin plant succumbed to powdery mildew by August 24, and I noticed a tell tale sign showing this was happening. When the growing tip of the pumpkin shoot no longer "pointed down", it stopped growing and within 7 days the leaves were breaking out in white "dust". (see next photo)

Grapes Galore !

2006-09-06T16:02:00.000-07:00

I like the freshly sprayed look of this shot, taken August 26 2006. Vitamins and biostimulants containing humic acid, and all essential minerals were foliarly applied with a "shot" of fulvic acid to help penetrate.

I had run out of Voodoo Juice, Tarantula and Piranha by this point, but I had generously inoculated the soil and leaves with these beneficial microbes for a month before this.

Ripening Grapes !

2006-09-06T15:46:00.000-07:00

This photo was taken Aug 23 2006 showing my hops and grapes. The first colours of ripening are appearing in my Merlot grapes !

Notice the "greening up" of my Golden hops again !

This is an old grape plant, but I have only tended to it for two years. Last year the yield of fruit was not disappointing, but this season it has grape bunches that are at least twice the size as the ones I got last year !.. This doubling of fruit size and the abundance of bunches has me estimating about 200 pounds of grapes are going to be picked off this one plant!

Mature Hops Cones

2006-09-06T15:11:00.000-07:00

On August 30 most of my Hops' flowers had turned into cones. Sticky and fragrant "cones" develop from little tufty, "buds" of white hairs. Such a distinctive "skunky" or musky-cheese-and-beer aroma when you squeeze a cone and crush it !

I am amazed by how "greened up" this year's growth has been; I have been propagating this Hop's root stock for over eight years ! It has never looked so Green ! compare the background green to the colour of a leaf in the foreground !

I moved to this house two years ago bringing a piece of the Hops' root stock with me. Last year I did not apply the Advanced Nutrients products I used this year; I just watered.

Although it's an "uncontrolled experiment" I am attributing the overwhelming "greening up" of my "Golden " hops to the potency of the foliar feeding I gave it for six weeks using Grow-Micro-Bloom with fulvic acid, and regular use of B52 and the seaweed extracts in Colossal Bud Blast.

Half-ripe Hops Cones

2006-09-06T14:58:00.000-07:00

This is a picture taken August 18 2006 showing what female hops "buds" turn into when maturing. These are not fully ripe yet.

Golden Hops are typically all yellow, almost chlorotic looking; they make lots of yellow pigments that 'mask' the green chlorophyll that is also there. Look at the green shades in these leaves, the older ones are all green, hardly yellow at all.

I had been foliarly feeding this plant for weeks, and as a result the green colour began to overcome the yellow pigments. I watched the hops plant get a "wave" of greening sweep up the plant, begining from the oldest parts. This "greening up" then reached into the far ends of the vines, and if you can notice, it's just starting to happen in the leaves around these cones.

Battle of the Hops and Grapes

2006-09-06T14:42:00.000-07:00

Another wall of green to foliarly feed ! The Hops are on the right, with the more golden foliage colour, and the "buds" of white hairs (pistils).

On August 12, my hops were still blooming, and no cones had formed yet.

I had been foliarly feeding these two plants with B52, Colossal Bud Blast ( Seaweed extracts!) and Grow-Micro-Bloom.

I used a little Fulvic acid in every foliar application of Grow-Micro-Bloom, and also fed these to the roots.

My kit of fertilizers was always augmented by mycorrhizae and beneficial bacteria (Piranha, Tarantula and Voodoo Juice) which I fed to roots and sprayed onto shoots.

Hops on Grapes !

2006-09-06T14:10:00.000-07:00

I have another experiment growing along the front of my house; a Merlot Grape vine is competeing for space against a Golden Hops plant. This is a battle of two vigorous annual vines.

This picture was taken in early August 2006; I'm holding the blooming shoot of the hops plant. The background is a grape leaf.

Hops (Humulus spp.) is so strange when it blooms. It's one-sex-plant (dioecious), so I have a female hops plant. These tufts, or "buds" of white hairs are waiting to be pollenated. They will grow into "cones" when mature.

Fulvic Acid for Foliar Feeding

2006-09-06T01:00:00.000-07:00

Leaves the size of elephant ears love to be fed ! I foliarly feed with fulvic acid added to the sprayer.
I have ended up using 2 litres of this stuff in 6 weeks; I add 20 -30 ml to the 1000 ml volume in my dial-a-spray during every application of Grow, Micro or Bloom. Fulvic acid is a chelator /meatbolic-booster and helps cells to absorb the minerals I'm feeding.

Green Wrestling Match.. !

2006-09-06T00:40:00.000-07:00

Or is it a Mosh pit..? .. a foliar feeding frenzy every time I spray with B52 !