Foliar feeding

Uncle Dunkel · March 7, 2014

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

feldon30 · March 7, 2014

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

pdxwindjammer · March 7, 2014

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

aconite · March 8, 2014

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.

ginger2778 · March 8, 2014

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Originally Posted by feldon30

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

He foliar feeds with his own manufactured foliar feed fert., and posts often about foliar feeding. See this thread: http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=28854

Marsha

epsilon · March 8, 2014

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.

Cole_Robbie · March 8, 2014

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.

Doug9345 · March 10, 2014

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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

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.

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?

Cole_Robbie · March 10, 2014

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

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

Doug9345 · March 10, 2014

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

Got Worms? · March 10, 2014

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

heirloomtomaguy · April 6, 2014

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.

MrBig46 · April 6, 2014

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Originally Posted by Got Worms?

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

What is compost tea?
Vladimír

Axixic · April 6, 2014

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

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

https://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/depu...e/Tea/tea1.htm

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.

ginger2778 · April 6, 2014

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Originally Posted by heirloomtomaguy

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.

Insect frass? How do you get that? I never have heard of that before.

Marsha

March 7, 2014	#1
Uncle Dunkel Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Corbin, KY Posts: 74	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

March 7, 2014	#2
feldon30 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 5,346	What do you foliar feed with? Maxicrop? Alaska? Hasta-Gro? Compost Tea? __________________ [SIZE="3"]I've relaunched my gardening website -- [B]TheUnconventionalTomato.com[/B][/SIZE] * [I][SIZE="1"]*I'm not allowed to post weblinks so you'll have to copy-paste it manually.[/SIZE][/I]

March 8, 2014	#6
epsilon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Desert CA Posts: 400	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. Last edited by epsilon; March 8, 2014 at 10:54 AM. Reason: using not suing XD

March 10, 2014	#9
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	I was talking about this thread, which you probably remember: tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=31011 (sorry the link doesn't work to click. If you copy and paste it, then it works) Last edited by Cole_Robbie; March 10, 2014 at 01:44 PM.

April 6, 2014	#14
Axixic Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: https://t.me/pump_upp Posts: 70	[QUOTE=MrBig46;403126]What is compost tea? Vladimír[/QUOTE Read this link. You can also make manure tea and other varieties. https://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/depu...e/Tea/tea1.htm 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. Last edited by Axixic; April 6, 2014 at 07:21 AM.

March 7, 2014	#3
pdxwindjammer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 625	Yes, I do. With tomatoes, too! I use fish emulsion and some other organic thing but can't think of what the name is.

March 8, 2014	#4
aconite Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Croatia Posts: 42	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.

March 10, 2014	#10
Doug9345 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Durhamville,NY Posts: 2,706	I remember it now. I wonder what spraying will willow branch tea would do.

March 10, 2014	#11
Got Worms? Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: NY Zone 5b/6a Posts: 546	Fish emulsion and compost tea. Separately. Monday fish emulsion and Thursday compost tea ... or is it Monday compost tea...

April 6, 2014	#12
heirloomtomaguy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: glendora ca Posts: 2,560	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.