Foliage Feeding Question

I'm just about to begin blooming on my plants and got myself some all organic bhudda bloom, hopefully it serves me well, this however has nothing to do with what I'm posting about. When I bought the bloom food the dude at the hydroponics store hooked me up with a sweet free sample. It's called Humboldt County's Own "SNOW STORM ULTRA(0-0-3)". The guy at the store and the label on the container both suggested foliar feeding as the best use of the product. So here is finally my question... When buds start to appear (haven't yet) do i want to avoid spraying any of this food on the buds and try to only get it on the foliage? Or is it okay to just completely cover the plant, buds and all?

PEACE AND LOVE

Cover the plant, buds and all. Be sure to raise or shut off HID lights until the plant dries. Be sure to have excellent air flow so the buds do not mold. Be sure to mix the solution correctly, it only takes a tiny amount. I spray every third day up until 2 weeks before harvest. I normally see increased crystal production after the second spraying. I mix mine in with liquid light + saturator from dutch master.

If your plant's genetics have not decided to produce crystals yet, this product will not help. (in other words, dont use in veg or early flower) If you have a strain that already produces a carpet of crystals, you wont see much more from using this product. If I use it on cheese it does nothing because cheese is dripping with crystals anyway. If I use it on my LSD it works wonders and makes it look like my cheese in terms of trichs.

thanks for your help

I'm going to start snow storm ultra and liquid light + sat. this grow for the first time. I'm pretty inexperienced with foliar feeding other than reverse once a grow. My question is when you spray the whole plant buds and all where do the chemicals go? Are you smoking/eating those chemicals?

prizm23a said:

I'm going to start snow storm ultra and liquid light + sat. this grow for the first time. I'm pretty inexperienced with foliar feeding other than reverse once a grow. My question is when you spray the whole plant buds and all where do the chemicals go? Are you smoking/eating those chemicals?

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the plan absorbs those "chemicals" uses them to help produce the ultamate prize in the end

cool....like i said i don't know much about foliar...didn't know if 100% is absorbed or how that worked...ive read about people rinsing their buds at harvest because they foliar sprayed and figured that was why..+rep

its still very early then, so still with a good fush before harvest will help ensure they will taste fine

brendanb said:

I'm just about to begin blooming on my plants and got myself some all organic bhudda bloom, hopefully it serves me well, this however has nothing to do with what I'm posting about. When I bought the bloom food the dude at the hydroponics store hooked me up with a sweet free sample. It's called Humboldt County's Own "SNOW STORM ULTRA(0-0-3)". The guy at the store and the label on the container both suggested foliar feeding as the best use of the product. So here is finally my question... When buds start to appear (haven't yet) do i want to avoid spraying any of this food on the buds and try to only get it on the foliage? Or is it okay to just completely cover the plant, buds and all?

PEACE AND LOVE

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Well, I'm not a huge fan of foliar feeding, but I think that if the bottle says to do somethign that you should do it.

We recommend applying your foliar feeds no more than twice a week (usually rotating between a couple of different products).

Try to avoid drenching your flowers. Mist or slight over-spray on your fruit or flowers is OK, but the plants leaves and stems are where the foliar feed is most valuable.

They don't need to be dripping when you're done applying, but just a nice light misting is all that's really necessary to gain all of the foliar benefits.

Just like with insecticide treatments, turn off your HID lights, or back them away from the plants to decrease the intensity of light until the application slowly dries as this will allow for better absorption.

Keep good circulation moving around your plants after a foliar application to prevent mold issues from developing in a stagnant wet environment.

If the product that you're going to apply has foliar feeding instructions, just follow the instructions very carefully.

If the product doesn't have foliar instructions, you can still usually apply it in a foliar application, but apply the product at a rate of 10 to 15% of the maximum root application instructions (especially if the product has any respectable N-P-K, like "grow" or "bloom" nutrients- again, if you're not sure, please ask us).

It's probably best to avoid the really high N-P-K chemical nutrients which are best left for root application.