Foliage Feeding? What Nutes? is it worth it? All opinions appreciated

I have a 4 week old baby doing great apparently, now i am curious about foliage feeding. I have Fox Farm Trio pack - Big Bloom, Big Grow, and Xtra Strength Fertilizer. Are these nutes okay to do foliage feeding with? Or do i need to buy a specific brand or type of nutes?

Also, with me using the FF TrioPack - can i buy any more and use those? Any recommendations if i do so? / if it's okay?
 

RedCarpetMatches

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All you need is aloe vera filet (inner jizz), DynaGrow Protekt, coconut water, enzyme teas, etc. Makes a big difference and the ladies...and guys love it.
 

vostok

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All you need is a teaspoon, a pint hand spray bottle, and patience, pour 1/2 teaspoon to your pint hand spray fill with warm tepid water....Shake and spray your plants leaves don't soak, best done at early lights on, so the lights may evaporate the residue, and not burn the leaves, this is great for noobies and oldies alike, as you can't overdo anything, like when you have smoked to many and can't remember if you put nutes in the water or not ....lol
 

RedCarpetMatches

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Remember to spray under the leaves too. Before lights and when lights go off are when stomata are prime. Don't be a noob and spray with fans on and hit the bulb. Good luck.
 

bseeds

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imo you dont need to feed that way if your feeding good in your medum you could easly add more problems then helping your plant
 

cannaculturalist

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I tend to avoid foliar feeding on healthy plants. If you are providing sufficient nutrition to the root zone and all other factors being OK, then your plant will grow great. Foliar feeding I believe is best done when needing to correct problems (deficiency). As for what you might use should you decide to go ahead? As for normal fertilising application, I'm not sure what is best (as I don't do it on Cannabis - sometimes use a low dilution of a general purpose liquid fert/fish emulsion on my vegies). Otherwise for specific applications to treat deficiency it would depend on what you were treating, but you'd be looking for a soluble powder of the specific nutrient (Mg, N, trace elements etc).
 

AimAim

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Don't be afraid to foliar feed, but don't expect to see measurable results. It's kind of a feel-good thing overall. If you have and can identify specific deficiencies it's sometimes the quickest way to work toward a correction. But this is pretty uncommon in weed, i.e. correctly identifying a problem and addressing it with foliar spry.
 

RedCarpetMatches

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OP, please don't listen to anyone saying don't do it. They're correct when saying you can effe up your plants...but that's with anything. It's a huge benefit when done correctly. Just look up what happens when you foliar spray and the plethora of benefits when using aloe, kelp, ProTekt, Agsil, neem, etc. I would never grow without foliar feeding at least twice a week. You'll need an emulsifier ie aloe, ProTekt, Agsil, etc. and something to emulsify...like kelp, seed sprout teas, alfalfa, compost teas, neem, etc. If your into bottles I'd go with the DynaGro Protekt and whatever you have at 1/4 strength depending on stage of growth. Plants like a shower so make it rain.
 

thetallguy

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I've been using a new product on the market called Organic Rescue Mist. It's a fulvic acid + trace mineral foliar spray (I love using fulvic as a foliar to supplement nutrient intake through roots). They make a flowering and veg spray (the shinny aluminum bottles). At first I thought it was clever marketing, but it turns out this stuff works great. I just picked up the concentrate formula from my local htg for $30 bucks. Seems like it will last me a few months, definitely worth the price. I used it after a friend recommended it because it cut a week off his veg time and as he said, "I've never seen a foliar actually work like this stuff..." After using it for the past few months, I'm a proud supporter of foliar feeding and plan on using it for the foreseeable future!
 

Doer

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Most things can be sprayed. But, what concentration? And are you set up to measure concentrations, PPM or EC?

Nothing can be sprayed, all by itself. It all needs a wetting agent, to get past the waxy exterior of the leaf.

And then you can overfeed if you are not careful. Feeding in the roots and on the leaves both, is advanced and you really need to be able to read the plant.

I use regular lawn food. UAN-28 w/Iron and I add Cal/Mag early on to support the clones by not watering and forcing roots.

I spray, Liquid Light every few days.

I have a spray with Rizomtonic and B1, no wetting agent. I spray the transplant root ball and hole it goes in., with that.

I spray once a week with Snow Storm Ultra, a hormone based, plant oil stimulate.

And in Bloom, I spray a flower hardener at 3 and 5 weeks. Very powerful.

And for all this, I cannot take the food concentration above 350 ppm.
 

RedCarpetMatches

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As long as you're within a reasonable range of temp and PH spray em. Before lights on or after lights off. I like showers...plants like rain. Protekt and whatever twice a week just to KIS. Foliar is a huge part of my regimen...and I came from the Walmart nutes...like MG and Pete's. Leaves absorb the goods.
 
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