Organic Fanatics - Australia

[wilbur]

Good morning All

Silver, I need to know about rejuvenating stressed plants.

I 've stressed one of mine by feeding it when the soil was dry. It's leaves are 'clawing' and a number of growing tips are droopy, especially but not exclusively on the lower branches.

Probably by the time you read this I will have flushed the pot and I intend to stimulate the plant with a foliar spray of kelp and fulvic acid.

later on and after some thought. if the stress is showing on the lower branches the damage is to the oldest roots, right? they'll also be closest to the surface, right? so maybe I should water on the kelp and fulvic acid instead of foliar feeding?

Bearing in mind serious flowering is about to begin and that I don't want lots of new green …

Thanks in anticipation ...

PS. nice heads, Silver

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Yeah cheers.

I reckon i would do exactly what you said. A bit of a flush with water and a nice wee foliar.

You are ahead of me on the roots thing. I quite often use the kelp and fulvic acid on dry plants no probs. One of my books recommends kelp as a natural soil wetter that helps to penetrate a very dry soil.

 

[wilbur]

Yeah cheers.


You are ahead of me on the roots thing.

Oh, this is some more of my logic ... I 'm reasoning that the bottom stems are the first ones grown so the roots that feed them must be closest to the surface. can't be scientific about that tho'.

I flushed yesterday and the plant is looking much better this morning. it has regained the gold look to it's growing parts. gave them another flush this morning.

most of the droopy tips have recovered and I think I 'll leave out the K/F because I 'm starting to think the stress is due to overfeeding ... that the last feed I gave it was just too much and the plant reacted negatively. need to review my feeding/watering regime, I think.

still, no harm done and lessons learned! cheers ...

 

[wilbur]

good morning All

Silver, I 've written more about my plant problem and my idea that there is a spatial relationship between roots and branches here:

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=231139

and for all of you who make aqueous brews and tinctures, have you seen this interesting post?

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=230790

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Very interesting Wilbur.

I love going into my garden and picking some fresh leaves for a herball tea. Lemonbalm and sage is my current fave

Super refreshing

 

[wilbur]

ingredients: turkeys nest, charlie carp, foliar weekly with kelp/molasses. At onset of flowering soil/foliar nutritech's 'boost' and nutritech's 'bloom' alternate weeks. And lots of water.

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Green, lush and shining with health.

Just the way we like it!

Check out these beauties - Purple Rhino and Swiss Browns

 

[luvaduck]

Swiss browns? Yum! What are they still in the pot for?

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Well most of em are gone now

 

[luvaduck]

MMMMMMM..... of course you know the body of the fungus lives underground so you can pick all not just most? Do you recon the EM1 would work for unused banana? Like you use with the thistle etc, but with bananas? Enjoy the swiss browns, one of the best to eat IMHO.

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Yeah i think banana peel would be good not sure about the fruit. Worth a go if thats what you have around. Certainly full of potassium.

Yes they are yummo indeed!!

 

[_Ina_]

http://thehealingfrequency.com/zeolite/
look,may be it will be interesting for u. do u have this zeolit there? Here in Bulgaria,in Rodopi mountain we have the biggest field in the world Holland gets 5000 tons for year. i think this stone is great,allways use it insted of perlite.

 

[wilbur]

http://thehealingfrequency.com/zeolite/
look,may be it will be interesting for u. do u have this zeolit there? Here in Bulgaria,in Rodopi mountain we have the biggest field in the world Holland gets 5000 tons for year. i think this stone is great,allways use it insted of perlite.

Duh. I wonder why such a small country as holland would use so much zeolite?

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Hmmm i wonder?

Yeah zeolite is great stuff. Its sold here as bbq fat absorber all over the place. Also available from a very few good landscaping places in bulk. But perlite is half the price.

Alls looking good over here. Went around collecting wallaby and possum poo (not too smelly) and chucking it around my plants to green them up a bit as they move into flower. 100% free, 100% organic, !00% awesome baby!

 

[_Ina_]

hey,ive never seen possum or possum poo here Is it good for flower or for veg? wilbur:ups, may be it was 5 tons,not 5000:/ i saw the oldest Zeolit is in Australia so u have it yes ,the perlite here is twice cheaper too,but i dont give money for anything else so i,ll buy it again to check it

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Sorry i was actually thinking of diamatecous earth from the landscaping place (also excellent) but not zeolite! It is the bbq stuff. Perhaps available in bulk but not down my way.

The possum poo is for a nice nitrogen hit before they flower. This way it should take them all the way to harvest. I like to feed up my girls as the strongest ones always resist the bud mould (botrytis) the best.

 

[wilbur]

hey,ive never seen possum or possum poo here Is it good for flower or for veg? wilbur:ups, may be it was 5 tons,not 5000:/ i saw the oldest Zeolit is in Australia so u have it yes ,the perlite here is twice cheaper too,but i dont give money for anything else so i,ll buy it again to check it

we will have to put up some images of possums and their poo for you. will see what I can find around the place.

I 'm not surprised australian zeolite is the oldest. australia is the oldest continent! remains of the indigenous people here have been found that are 40,000 years old.

probably the newest thing about australia is white man!

 

[_Ina_]

o,i know what possum is i,m interested of possum,s poo. sounds very exotic for nutrient Yes,really,Australia is the oldest continent and probably the newest and WORST thing everywhere is white man

 

[High Country]

Possum poo hey...I don't get possums where I live...just the usual suspects... roos, wombats, snakes and a shit load of rabbits this year...little shits.

But up in the high contry these little possums struggle for existance.

MOUNTAIN PIGMY POSSUM....burramys parvus

They live above the snowline and rely on the snow to keep them warm in winter. At that time they go into a state called torpor...kind of like hibernation. But they can awake occasionally to feed. Under the snow they can feed on berries of Mountain Plum Pines collected over summer.

But they are threatened by us, feral cats and foxes. They are an extremely endangered species.

That's why I shoot feral animals....with extreme prejudice.

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Thats a lot cuter than the buggers round here!

One has snapped some branched trying to climb one big plant.