Foliar feeding
 

Do any of you all foliar feed your peppers. I have been doing this for the past couple years. It really makes the plants look and grow great. Also yeld and size of fruit have incresed.

Tim

What do you foliar feed with? Maxicrop? Alaska? Hasta-Gro? Compost Tea?

Yes, I do. With tomatoes, too! I use fish emulsion and some other organic thing but can't think of what the name is.

Yes i foliar feed peppers and sometimes tomatoes. Peppers react incredibly to foliar feeding, they don't care much for pot size if properly foliar fed either.

[QUOTE=feldon30;396411]What do you foliar feed with? Maxicrop? Alaska? Hasta-Gro? Compost Tea?[/QUOTE]
He foliar feeds with his own manufactured foliar feed fert., and posts often about foliar feeding. See this thread: [url]http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=28854[/url]

Marsha

This was a big thing in the orchid world for a while. Though I recall there being a study done by Texas A&M saying there was no additional benefits to foliar feeding as compared to traditional root based approaches. Of course they based this off of some basic feed like MG original. At the time I was using Algamic and a mix of dutch pot fertilizers. I thought they were doing better than average. But that might have also been part of my brain trying to avid buyers remorse.

I was always against the concept of foliar feeding in principle, but there was a very detailed discussion on here recently about kelp's real effect being from its natural growth hormones rather than from the micronutrients. A plant should be able to get everything it needs from its roots, and the only place of foliar feeding in large-scale agriculture is the correction of micronutrient deficiencies. Spraying is just an easier way to deliver the micro to a large field.

BUT...there are legions of home gardeners who swear by foliar feeding and have great results with it. The growth hormone theory would explain everything.

[QUOTE=Cole_Robbie;396699]I was always against the concept of foliar feeding in principle, but there was a very detailed discussion on here recently about kelp's real effect being from its natural growth hormones rather than from the micronutrients. A plant should be able to get everything it needs from its roots, and the only place of foliar feeding in large-scale agriculture is the correction of micronutrient deficiencies. Spraying is just an easier way to deliver the micro to a large field.

BUT...there are legions of home gardeners who swear by foliar feeding and have great results with it. The growth hormone theory would explain everything.[/QUOTE]

That's about where I've been with the whole thing. My thought is that is may also be foliar feeding may be changing the balance of the microorganisms around the plant. That easily could change the growth regulators around in the plant.

Do you happen to have a link to the study?

I was talking about this thread, which you probably remember:
[URL="http://tomatoville.com/tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=31011"]tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=31011[/URL]

(sorry the link doesn't work to click. If you copy and paste it, then it works)

I remember it now. I wonder what spraying will willow branch tea would do.

Fish emulsion and compost tea. Separately. Monday fish emulsion and Thursday compost tea ... or is it Monday compost tea...

My pepper plants get extreme compost tea once a week. It makes them look and grow amazing. Also i add a little insect frass to the mix when the plants are flowering. It tricks the plant into thinking it is being infested so it pumps out peppers like crazy.

[QUOTE=Got Worms?;397177]Fish emulsion and compost tea. Separately. Monday fish emulsion and Thursday compost tea ... or is it Monday compost tea...[/QUOTE]

What is compost tea?
Vladimír

[QUOTE=MrBig46;403126]What is compost tea?
Vladimír[/QUOTE

Read this link. You can also make manure tea and other varieties.

[url]https://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/wm/recycle/Tea/tea1.htm[/url]

I never used a pump. I soaked the compost in a large plastic garbage can for a couple of weeks, used the water and refilled the can.

[QUOTE=heirloomtomaguy;403119]My pepper plants get extreme compost tea once a week. It makes them look and grow amazing. Also i add a little insect frass to the mix when the plants are flowering. It tricks the plant into thinking it is being infested so it pumps out peppers like crazy.[/QUOTE]
Insect frass? How do you get that? I never have heard of that before.:shock:

Marsha