Good Day DGC,
I have a great Silicon supplement for plants, Horsetail. It is high in Silicon, Selenium, Calcium, magnesium, Iron, Phosphorus and Potassium. Horsetail tea is also good as a foliar spray for powdery mildew and many other things.
Horsetail tea can also be consumed for its health benefits. Osteoporosis, eczemas, Macular Degeneration, and many intestinal issues, plus many more.
1 cup fresh horsetail, 3 cups of water, bring to boil and let sit overnight, strain threw peas pudding bag (maybe a little to newfie lol) or pillow cast and squeeze. Bottle it up and use 20ml per gallon.
Dank day to all
Here’s some more info I found on Horsetail.
“Our results for the silicon concentration in horsetail reached from 2.64% to 4.80% of the dry matter. The lowest amount of silicon was in the range between 1.52% and 2.51%”
http://file.scirp.org/pdf/FNS_2013050814523966.pdf
Do people buy horsetail to use. I remember horsetail being one of the most invasive weeds I have ever seen. It could be my climate because blackberries are a huge weed problem in the Pacific Northwest also but in Texas I couldn’t get them to grow.
Just a warning if people don’t know. I personally would not plant any horsetail and if you have free access to it then I hope it is in the neighbors yard.
Good info thanks!
I know there are some KNF people making fermented plant extract from horsetail for silica and I’ve been meaning to try making it. I’ll have to try that tea recipe too as that looks a lot easier.
Thanks Jmystro,
Great respect for ya man,
I have found that the levels of silicon found in horsetail, in studies have levels ranging from around 2% up to 25% depending on the area samples were taken from and or controlled. I believe the studies show that the levels of silicon available in soil and to the plant greatly affects the uptake. Horsetail seems to really like up-taking silicon. We have very high levels of silicon in my area, you see it almost everywhere. The highest level of silicon can be found in the new young shoots as uptake levels decrease with maturity.
We only harvest wild and away from roads and developed lands for best quality. This can be bit hard depending on your location. Fields and water ways are the best places to harvest. Horsetail can also be found at some health food stores in many forms.
Just a couple more studies
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5790184_Insights_into_chemical_composition_of_Equisetum_hyamale_by_high_resolution_Raman_imaging
http://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2229-11-112
I don’t know where I’d find fresh horsetail here.
How many grams of dried horsetail should we use per liter water in that recipe?
Thanks