Seaweed extracts
ok I have seen results first hand with kelp in my growing.Here is an exerpt from A well known hydroponic expert:
“Seaweed extracts also have a positive effect on brix. Seaweed extracts include mannitol, a natural sugar that chelates micronutrients and makes them more available to the plant. Seaweed extracts are also loaded with natural plant growth hormones that stimulate cell division. When used at the root zone, seaweed extracts stimulate cell division of root cells, resulting in more lateral root growth and greater root mass. Improved root growth creates more surface area for the uptake of water and minerals, further improving the brix of the plant. Seaweed extracts are synergistic with other organic biostimulants, so using a combination of additives is better than using any single additive alone.”
Kelp is good for
EVERYTHING !!
Everyone has heard of it,but its benefits have become overlooked.
Besides increasing Brix and aiding photosynthesis and making micro nutrients available and making ATP & SOD in much higher quantites,I have noticed EXTREME side bud and backbudding in most plants I used it on aside from gingko or hwthorne which are notoriously hard to side branch.
On zelkova,Elm ,JBP it works wonders for early backbudding. It is a lot of the majic to get my pine seedling cuttings to have up to 8 leaders right on top of roots or 17 shoots extending fairly equalized on a 4 mnth old JBP( aside from co2 fertilization).
The science is the kelp has cytokonins that are transported into leaf and soft stem cells( especially effective when aided with fulvic acid) then the cytokonins trigger an auxin break signal beoing produced in the meristem leader and this makes plant use is ancient genetic responce to branchbreak survival and it throws buds back along the branch.
The good thing is this happens without having to prune your leader prematurely to get this effect.
So,yes!! Backbudding on 1 inch branches and seedlings is the result...quite useful!!!!
It also works wonders at making natural plant hormones from foliar application to seedlings or cutting where rooting is in the future...whether motherplants seedling cuttings or cuttings,air-layers.
NEVER FOLIAR FEED KELP MORE THAN ONCE A WEEK IT WILL CREATE SO MUCH ENERGY IN LEAF IT WILL BURN THEM.......IN THE ROOT MEDIA DRENCH IS FINE THOUGH AS MUCH AS DESIRED.
Use the 5:2 ratio of fulvic acid powder/kelp powder
Or 1/8th tsp fulvic : 1/16tsp kelp.
This ratio is only useful for kelp application along with humic or fulvic.
Fulvic is foliar since it is smaller molecular weight and you want to transport growth promoting elements into cells( happens in like 4 hrs!!!)
Also add tiny amount of yucca powder 1/16th per 5 gallons!!!I ise an atomizing hair sprayer on plants that are waxy...the tucca surfectant helps alot and spreads like dew.
Humic better for roots as it chelates and holds in the rootzone.
Humic is good as a leaf wash that I use every day.I mix with tiny amount of yucca...a surfectant that also makes a slight film on plants and is a mild fungicide.Yucca also adds strengthening chemistry of desert surviving plants directly to your plants( the science is evolving).
RAW Yucca is made from 100% natural yucca extract from the plant Yucca Schidigera. It can be used as wetting agent for nutrient solutions and foliar sprays and is great for flushing excess salts from the root Zone.
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RAW Kelp is 99% Kelp extract from seaweed (Ascophyllum Nodosum). This product is water Soluble and contains only 1% soluble potash which is a direct reflection of its purity.
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RAW Full Up (uptake) is water Soluble and contains 10% soluble Humic Acids which are derived from Peat. The amber color of RAW Full Up reflects this particular form of Humic Acid.
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