ALOE VERA

[umbralindigo]

http://www.aloeria.co.uk/html/aloe_vera_history.html

I don't know this company, just thought the quick historical run down was fun.
The true and false is cool as well as the conclusion.

 

[mohammed romney]

i grab huge leaves at the asian market and use the fresh gel.at first i blended it wih RO water and used it as foliar.but i could never get it to mist properly so now i just blend it into my waterings/drenches.

how do you guys get it to mix completely?

Hey all, I posted this elsewhere here at IC and just thought I'd share it where it belongs.
Anybody ever here of David Wolfe?
I'm listening to a podcast recently of him and a fellow on the One Radio Network, and they bring up aloe vera juice. For growing plants.
They go in to saying that all the food they grow gets foliar sprayed with aloe and that it is all the most outstanding food they ever grew.
Why? Apparently they associate the high content of polysaccharides in aloe with high levels of "ormus". So essentially polysaccharides=ormus, or "the" life force.
Wilhelm Reich was founder of this concept of ormus I believe and did extensive studying on the ultimate life force.

Just a thought, but aloe by itself in a foliar helps me, could this be a serious consideration?

Juice, I believe you are fine to drench bro. I re-wet peat bales with it. Hasnt stung me... ever.

LOL : David Wolfe

 

[Team.Lift]

http://www.aloeverafertilizer.com/

Umbral here, just found this ^^^ cruising the web, pretty interesting...

Fucking david wolfe, lol.....

Dude is kinda suspect on his health practices, but most of his food source knowledge is spot on. Check out youtube for a video called "what do i eat" or something like that.. commence with loling!

Maybe a food processor would blend better for you? Are you cutting too much from the inside? I have drenched with blended in watering can, but not foliared through an atomizing sprayer.. except with store bought bottles. I did wonder how they got their consistencies so consistent. Maybe blend to hell and strain through cloth or spaghetti strainer? Ima give it a go tonight or tomorrow, let ya know!

 

[mohammed romney]

dude, I have carefully sliced out the gel, placed it in a high sided SS bowl with RO water and used an immersion blender. It turns into a micro bubbly bath. I pour that mixture through a fine chinois and it will spray but it's not misty at all. Ive tried it in diff sprayers and get same results. Once i ran it through an unbleached coffee filter. The experiment exceeded the 20 min limit on using the fresh gel...abandoned that practice.

When i spray the amaze/pgr/dextrose mix it is as fine as can be. Same with the ful-power. But the aloe gunks up the works and results in big old water droplets. I think it's better to forgo that application and stick with products that mist properly. I use the aloe in the drench by blending it the same way with the RO water and then dumping it into the soil drench solution at the last minute.

 

[45th]

Learned something new AND I have Aloe plants.

cool deal

 

[Team.Lift]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wk_ByS8VRQ

mohammed, here is a video I just found, might be of service to you, I am going to try this one today myself. See how this goes. Soory, you have been having so much trouble. this video doesn't use any blending at all, just soaking of the inner filet.

Lots of love. TL

 

[Team.Lift]

What is this amaze/pgr/dextrose? Just curious

 

[mohammed romney]

tl thanks for the vid. i like the concept. i might try using it 50/50. the infusion part can go in the mister and the gel part ill blend and use for the soil. nice vid, makes me long for summer.

one concern is: why is it often stated that the raw gel should be used within 20 mins of exposure to oxidation? in the vid this aspect is not addressed.

amaze/pgr/dextrose is a blend of fertilizer, adjuvant and sugar used for foliar application in highbrix gardening. info about those products can easily be found on the interwebs.

 

[Team.Lift]

i can only make conjecture, but it appears that after oxidation, the filet is placed immediately in a sealed jar in water in the freezer. This may preserve it well enough to avoid any problems or spoilage.

 

[Bueno Time]

I have a very small grow and a large amount of aloe growing. I might have to give this stuff a try mixed in my water as a soil drench.

 

[Smoking Lamp]

I have been freezing my aloe fillets. They grow so big fairly quickly more than I can use per week.

Lately I just snap a piece off of the whole fillet [no more scooping, waste of time] and put in a sealed jug and keep it cold 10C or so. It would probably last longer than a week, but I usually dump it the compost pile and make a new weekly batch. I shake a few times each day and pour it in my sprayer this way. Seems to never clog up this way.

Clones love it too. I pull off a frozen piece and let it thaw for 10-20 minutes or so and dip stems into the little goop pouch and then throw the clone into the medium. With soil 100% so far, with bubble cloner, 50% success.

 

[Team.Lift]

Ya ever drink it yourself smoking lamp?

 

[Smoking Lamp]

Nah....never drank it, probably taste better than coco water though....

Malt Barley Extract is pretty good tasting, kind of like a Coor cutter or something, lol.

 

[Mikell]

Started selling aloe to the local natural foods store. I found out I was wrong. This stuff is magic and well worth the expense. At least to me. Buy lots of it.

I can't tell if he's being sarcastic or not I admit this thread does little to support the use of aloe, beyond a few obvious benefits. Not to say I don't use it ie. salicylic acid.

 

[mohammed romney]

i use it all the time. it def helps with rooting cuttings and shows positive effects as a foliar and drench. i grab a hefty blade from the produce market and use it up over a few weeks. aloe,dextrose,fulvic seems like an elixr when used as a foliar.

 

[Peton]

Does anyone sit on a good article or thread about using Aloe? And have some of you experience of different strains of Aloe?

 

[Bueno Time]

I did a 3 way test on clones just recently 2 clones with each dip. I prepared the cuts all the same way and they all had the same amount of nodes, etc.

I took 6 clones off the mother plant and did 2 in EZ CLONE gel, 2 with AZOS, and two with Aloe Vera freshly picked.

Both EZ CLONE cuts rooted the fastest with the most vigourous root growth of the 3 dips, one of the AZOS cut showed roots equally as fast and one was a straggler that started rooting much slower, one of the Aloe cuts rooted almost as fast and pretty vigorously and the other was a straggler rooting much slower. I culled the stragglers and they had small roots when I pulled them out of the medium and tossed them out, so all 3 methods had 100% success in developing roots out of 2 cuts each (not really enough cuts to be a scientific study).

Oh yeah the EZ CLONE cuts and 1 AZOS cut showed roots on the sides of the plastic cups of 50/50 FFOF/Coco mix in 8 days from cutting off mother plant, dipping, and placing in medium. I kept the two EZ CLONE cuts, one AZOS, and one Aloe Vera they were all vigorous rooters and started developing new healthy growth very quickly after starting rooting.

Long story short:

My conclusion is Aloe Vera is effective in promoting faster and more vigorous rooting of cuttings taken for clones. It is free if it is growing in your yard or even in a small pot in your home. Also good for cuts and burns on human skin. Versatile plant she is.

 

[OGsus]

I've been using act tea in my ez cloner with success. I think I'm going to add aloe to the mix and see what happens.

 

[Folate]

At what rate is the 200x Aloe powder to be added to a gallon of h2o? It would be used for a coco drench.
In cooking measurements please.
And could one assume that would be a typical amount for an adult human /day?

 

[intotheunknown]

Mix 1/2 teaspoon 200x aloe to 3/4 cup clean water to make aloe juice.
Then mix aloe juice at 1/4 cup per gallon clean water.