What foliar fertilizer do you use?

[mdvpc]

I am always changing my foliar fert.

I am going to use espoma 5-3-3 organic with micronutrients as my pelleted fert in my containers. Probably about 60ccs to start and then a tablespoon every 2-3 weeks.

I supplement with foliars. I have used bio-grow and bio-bloom. I have used kelp, years ago when I started I used miracle gro 15-30-15. I have used the fox farm trio of big bloom etc. I have used Monty's Joy Juice-their trio also.

I have used compost tea with organic molasses-I will surely do that again some. I used several different kinds of fish which was great but my wife forbid me to use it again, and I always do what she says so I haven't.

I used algoflash, which was good, but expensive.

I want a foliar that has all the macro and micronutrients.

What foliars have you used that you like, and why do you like them?

[amideutch]

Foliars; T&J Enterprises Microbe Tea periodically spiked with Actinovate, molasses. A new product I'm looking at this year is Mayan MicroZyme which would compliment my Microbe tea regemen.

http://www.humboldtnutrients.com/mayan.html

And some products from Roots Organics (Aurora Innovations) out of the PNW. For foliar, Extreme Serene and Ancient Amber look interesting. There OregonismXL for soil inoculation also looks interesting.

http://www.planetnatural.com/site/xd...%20Innovations

Ami

[dice]

There are some issues with aerated compost tea as a foliar
feed or foliar disease treatment:

(I think these are in reverse order of publication.)
http://www.puyallup.wsu.edu/~Linda%2...3rd%20time.pdf
http://www.puyallup.wsu.edu/~Linda%2...ea%20again.pdf
http://king.wsu.edu/gardening/MGCD/Q...and%20Quiz.pdf

When I used it last year as a soil drench, however, the plants
that received it seemed to perk right up and put on a growth
spurt. I speculated that the inoculation of beneficial bacteria
and fungi in it (I used molasses and earthworm castings with
the compost when brewing it) accelerated the rate that the
nutrients in solid organic fertilizers in the soil around the roots
were becoming available to the plant.

[amideutch]

I can see problems with compost tea especially when the compost is of questionable quality or origin. This is why I use the T&J microbe tea. Here's a little info on it. Ami
The ingredients in Natures Own Growing System Soil Life Tea Brewers consist of high performing Aerobic and faculative soil bacteria which fix nitrogen from the air, solublize minerals, and reduce organic material into plant food. Trichoderma fungi are also present in our Tea Brewing Kits. Weekly applications of Natures Own Growing System Soil Life Tea (after brewing for 24 hours) to your plants and soils helps sustain the production of nutrients for your plants at high levels.

[creister]

I have used Garrett Juice, both homemade and prepared. It is a mixture of compost tea, seaweed, molasses, and apple cider vinegar. I have also used Neptune's harvest fish and seaweed, and aerated compost tea. They all have worked well for me. I can get compost from a good source, so will make my own aerated tea, and will also use garrett juice and maybe Neptune's harvest fish & seaweed and rotate them weekly.

[ReaverG]

I've always used fish emulsion; I'm sure there are better treatments... but it's what I've been able to find at the yard sales often enough to keep a supply available. Seems to me that every once in a while someone doesn't realize fish emulsion smells like... well, like fish when they buy it. I like it because it's affordable.

[tjg911]

i only have used neptune's harvest fish and seaweed emulsion. last fall there was no f&s emulsion so i bought a gallon of fish emulsion but yet to use any.

tom

[robin303]

It's great two table spoons per gallon and splash a little on yourself and your cat will love you.

[amideutch]

Fish and kelp make a very good mix for foliar applications and don't forget the molasses as a spreader sticker and nutrient sup as well. You can also add Actinovate to the mix and you have a nutrient/fungicide being applied in one application and it's completely organic! Ami

[kygreg]

Read a post some time back where someone had put actual fishhead in their tomato holes; said the buzzards had a field day digging them up.

[Polar_Lace]

Originally Posted by robin303

splash a little on yourself and your cat will love you.

Ya, Robin; I found that out in 2002; my cats (all 3) used to come running, even out of the barn and fields whenever I opened the bottle. Thankfully they never tried to dig up the ground around my tomatoes and other plants! But then again they used to love chasing and catching the other critters that were attracted by it. I used to buy 2 gallons a year, the one with the kelp already mixed into it. I always seemed to lose nutrients in the ground cause we were on a lot of rocks plus the mountain rains used to wash away everything we put in the soil; sometimes we used both and sometimes we used only one.

Liquid Fish & Kelp #3. Plastic Jug 1 gallon $ 25.25

~* Robin

[mdvpc]

My wife wont let me use fish-the one time I used it worked great. Nasty odor.

[Polar_Lace]

Originally Posted by mdvpc

My wife wont let me use fish-the one time I used it worked great. Nasty odor.

Michael, Have you ever tried this one?

LILLY MILLER BRANDS 09301200 GAL FishEmul Fertilizer - Product Description: Gallon, 5-1-1, Alaska Fish Emulsion Fertilizer, Omri Listed Approved For Use In Production Of Organic Food, All Purpose Deodorized Fish Emulsion, Use On All Indoor & Outdoor Plants, Will Not Burn, Stimulates Soils Micro Organisms To Help Build Soil Content.

• Manufacturer: LILLY MILLER BRANDS
• Model Number: 09301200
• UPC code: 22671600006
• SKU: 565416

Other sites have smaller bottles that you can buy. I bought this product once (locally,) in a smaller bottle to test the smell, yes it didn't have barely an odor to it.

~* Robin

[sfmathews]

Ami, thanks for mentioning to use the Actinovate mixed with the foliar ferts. Makes sense, and saves time to boot!

[mdvpc]

Robin-I have not used it-maybe I could slip it in if I disguised the container. Will take a look at it. Thanks.