What’s up DGC
Curious on the time of day to foliar in veg and flower. Lights on? Lights off? Obviously has to be when lights are on if veg is 24/0 but what about 18/6?
Does it matter per nutrient? Are some nutrients better to foliar with at night rather than in the light?
And 1 final one not do with timing, do you guys foliar with an enzyme? Is it effective as a foliar? Isn’t the point of the enzyme to break down dead roots and turn them into something useful? How is this obtained by foliaring through the leaves? Or are we trying to obtain a different result when it comes to foliaring in an enzyme?
As always much appreciation.
MM
I personally foliar spray 30 min to an hour before lights come on. This give the benefitials time to soak into the leaf material while the lights are off and will evaporate in the cooler times when the lights come on so your not burning your girls. I learned this lesson when I started to try to outdo the other neighbors with my lawn. I would water at night because I thought it would soak into the ground and the grass would be more hydrated. All this did was allow pests and fungus to grow and damage my lawn. When I watered during the day/evening it was too hot and would burn my grass. Best thing to do is a side by side with two or three differant folair spray applications throughout the grow.
I like to foliar bio cozyme. A light mix. I can’t remember how much I used but I believe if you search it on here you should find the mix rate.. if you use transport from optic foliar it will help get through the waxy layer on the leaves. Don’t remember the scientific name lol… I like to spray them when lights just turn on. But I do know that there is certain hours of the day that the plants really thrive and that’s also a good time to do it.
Also something else to remember is that you don’t want to foliar when the girls are thirsty.
“help get through the waxy layer on the leaves’ – think the word you looking for is surfactant or wetting agent, think ive heard people from the states(im from sunny South Africa) refer to them as sticker spreaders..
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I use Biocozyme during the first two weeks of flower to slow down the stretch at 10ml per gal. I use this with coco wet or ez wet no more than an hour before the lights come on. I Like for the leaves to be somewhat dry when the lights come on, I have burnt leaves several time while spraying with the lights on.
Ok so I think what is trying to be said by soulessginger is Transports helps to get the nutrients through the outer epidermal layer of the leaf and will penetrate to the mesophyllic layer of the leaf so you can spray with the lights on if you use trasport. Or If you are spraying with the lights on then you need a “sticker spreader so break the surface tension of the water bubbles so they don’t become small magnifying glasses and burn the leaves. So smaller bubbles the better. Or as mentioned in previous post spray just before lights on so but long enough for the foliar to absorb a bit before lights come on. If you spray at lights out you risk the plants staying wet for the whole evening and stagnant water is never good not to mention the already increased humidty during lights out will be even worse.
Under multiple lights, if you rotate them off individually and foliar under the light that is off. Turn all fans off while misting and on when spraying is done to help move excess water off the leaves. When the leaves are dry cycle to the next. Works well for perpetual harvest setups where plants are in all phases of growth.
Good info guys. Much appreciated.
Let me add what I use: fasilitor (silica) calmag and transport.
So because I use transport I can spray with the lights on?
Thank you LongBottomLeaf that is the words I was looking for. I knew what it did tho lol.
Yes MichiganMatt, with Transport you can spray with the lights on like LongBottomLeaf mentioned. One thing to be careful with when using products like biocozyme is not necessarily because of the enzymes but the hormones in the kelp. Jake mentioned using it during the first two weeks of flower. Once a week, 2 sprays total. This is for certain hormones that limit nodal spacing and promote more lateral branching if that’s what you desire. Not necessarily for the enzymes. Fulvic acid in Recharge for example helps break down organic matter like kelp faster on the leaf surface unlike enzymes, which are long linear chains of amino acids that basically control every process in and around the plant like a key turning on and off functions. An enzyme does one thing. So an enzyme that breaks down cellulose (root matter) couldn’t also control cell division. Another type of enzyme does that. They all work together creating and destroying. Circle of life. 😉