Panaroma

Hi, bananaloveski u all,


I was wondering; anybody has experience in using seeweed solution, on bananabreeding?
It's been said that it's the richest mineral, hormonal feeding you can give to a plant. There is a small amount of NPK(mostly P) but its extremely diverse amount of minerals(mostly Fe, Zn) and natural growth hormoons, makes a plant grow stronger, faster, and whithout any difficiencies. I've read once that a minor mineral difficiencie of one kind, is sometimes not seen, but the influence on growth, health, hardyness, flowerproduce and fruitgrowth is surely there.

I personally, have good experience on citrus with this mineral foliar spray. This plant shows clearly and fast, a mineral difficiency, in the shapes and patterns on the leaves. Citrus is difficult because they have a hungry appetite for Fe, Zn, Mn, Mg. Pro's know these patterns and spray the citrus with zn-mn sulphate.
On citrus i see deffinately the difference when using seaweedfoliar on them. Greener, bigger leaeves, more gloss on the leaves, more flowerproduce, and now, good ripening of the many fruits. It's all in there!

This year i'm surely going to use the seawead foliar on some of my bananas, to see if there's any difference. On citrus i spray it 4-6 times a growing season. The night temperatures have to be warm for good results, there will be no foliar uptake when the nights are cold, cool.
Spraying the plant on full moon also has a positive impact on the uptake of the leaves, i read.
If it rains off within tree days, then spray it again. In the evening, when it's still light, is the best period.

Anyone of you bananalovers cares to join in on a foliarspray-experiment, shearing data on previous experiences?

Gunther, Brussels

Chironex

Gunther,
I am trying it on my bananas. I also included beneficial bacteria and endomycorrhizal fungi (a repetitive term in my view, since mycorrhiza means fungus roots in Greek) in the sprayer. There are naturally occurring plant hormones (gibberellins for one) in seaweed extract, so this cocktail should do some good for my bananas, too.

We will see what develops. I should have established a control plant, but I did not do so.

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Richard

Seaweed extract is a good way to provide your plants with micronutrients and various organic compounds, but with a few caveats:

• Kelp extract can react with several compounds commonly found in soil and composting material. With reasonable dosages of extract, this is not a problem and sometimes actually beneficial. However, too much seaweed extract can produce reactants that are very acidic and your soil pH will drop below 5.
• Some manufacturers of seaweed extract (mostly small-time operators) do not balance the chemistry of the extract for plants. This can cause many undesired side effects. For more details: Micronutrients

Grow More has a product line of chelated (liquified) micronutrients called "Fert-All". There are many formulas of Fert-All, but one of them is called GP, short for General-Purpose. The chelating agent is natural Ligno-sulfate extracted from wood, and the micronutrients are all extracted from sea kelp. The ligno-sulfate is immediately absorbed by plants along with the micronutrients -- hence the product is very efficient. Since it is completely produced from natural materials without synthetics it is approved for certified organic farming in California. Strangely enough, it is also less expensive than seaweed extract.

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damaclese

iv been uesing it for a year now and have had good results mostly if i have a plant that looks stresed i ues it they seem to bounce back with in hr's perticulerly on young Bananas i sprad all the new littil guys i got last week with them some of them looked a bit stressed and with in 3 or 4 hr they all perked up and started to turn a nice dark green with an marked increas in leaf diamiter within 3 days

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Worm_Farmer

I use it all the time and Love it!
I tried it on one of my potted bananas and I noticed yellow spots on the leafs. I thought that it might be burning the plant. I use it on Toms at 2nd leaf, and again right when flower pods start then no more. Same with all my veggies, but the flowers all seem like they can take a dose once a week and keep on going.

Chironex

Richard, do you sell this stuff?

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Richard

Well yes, its currently at the bottom of this page: http://www.plantsthatproduce.com/pro...nourished.html

I know at least some of the members here live near a Grow More factory (e.g., in Florida) so you can probably save yourself some postage and buy it direct from there.

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turtile

I've had the same experience. I had a few that were yellow from lack of water so I used some liquid kelp (once a day isn't enough in full sun and 80+ days). The next day they were green!

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