FERTILIZING SWEET CORN WITH ANIMAL FEED! -- *ORGANIC NITROGEN*
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- In an attempt to reduce the amount of salts in our garden soils, we're trying a new nitrogen source for our sweet corn this year. Join us to see what it is and how we hill our corn to suppress weeds.
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Kallstrom Sweet Corn here in Washington state . We are not organic growers BUT we use cattle manure . In parts of our field where we are able to use manure the plants are greener , taller , more ''lush '' thicker bigger plants . When we used manure on wheat the plants were the same, much better then non manured areas AND the yields were much HIGHER
Been Side dressing With chicken manure from my hen house for several years. Really works good for sweet corn.
I bet!
build a firewood brick oven your kids will love I promise, my kids do!!!
I think you’re going in the right direction with your move to more organic and long term fertilizers. Glad to see it. As for pesto, the best, in my opinion, is to use half basil and half spinach. It’s less bitter and more rounded flavor. Loving the channel 💗
We've got a little bit of spinach left that hasn't succumbed to the heat. Might have to try that.
The best pesto is made with stinging nettles. Absolutely love it not bitter at all and earthy tasting. 🍀
@@OldWaysGardeningandPrepping just got stinging nettle seeds and found out good friend knows places where it grows wild.
It's my first time trying sweet corn. I pray that something survives. I am glad that I found you again, I wondered. You all have made this first time gardener more knowledgeable. I truly thank you. My garden, looks amazing. May GOD Bless You and Yours.
May God bless your family as well. Glad you found us!
Glad I found you. Can’t wait to see more now that you are working on your and your families dreams.
Welcome aboard!
So glad to see that you are going more to organics. It really works and it is healthier for you.
It's going to be a bit of a slow transition, but we'll get there. Thanks for watching.
Watch out for varmints who want to eat it.
Enjoyed the video Travis. Nice to see the whole family in the garden. Great tips on side dressing and hilling the corn. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks Terry!
Also if you catch the nasturtium buds before they bloom out you can pickle them like capers. 🍀
Neat. Did not know that!
I Love the white corn ..tried to grown a little patch and wow was it good...omg..wish we were not in this heat..and drought. I broke down and used up my salt based fertilizer..cause my dogs go destructo nuts when i use natural occuring ones....even when i put up temporary fences.
Thank you for taking the time to explain the reasons and the methods. I had a question on one video and sure enough you answered it in the next video. Thanks for making my life easier, researching chemicals and processes gets overwhelming and frustrating..
Love seeing little kids in the garden. God Bless.
Yes, thank you
Love seeing the fam together in the garden! 💚
Thanks Robin!
I've tilled in chicken manure before I planted my corn and the corn grew like crazy.. chicken manure mixed in with red clay .
Fish powder provides 12-1-1 in water soluble form. Its organic and works as quick as salt-based fertilizers. You can probably inject it too.
Might need to try some of that.
Garden is looking great...I’ve got mine going here in southern AR...I need to side dress my corn soon! Thanks for sharing
The stuff we used in this video has ours "greened-up" nicely.
Hey Brooklyn! I bought some new canning jars! Can't wait for my tomatoes and Cucumbers to come on so I can watch your video again!
Wonderful!
I love the transition to organic fertilizer! I’ve learned a lot about chemicals in our food and it’s changed the way I grow and purchase things. It’s made a huge difference for me. I’m excited to see what you do next!
If this goes well, we'll likely be using a lot more of the Nature Safe products in the future.
@@LazyDogFarm down to earth fertilizer works well in my experience as well...they also have a line of water soluble products you could run through the drip tape
Looking Good ! We hoping to have fresh corn Soon... They are Tasseling Now.
Love Your Video here in Chackbay, La
Wow! Hope y'all have a bumper harvest!
Great video! I agree with the other comments that this is a great thing you're doing to transition a bit to organic. We bought a bag of alfalfa pellets and sprinkled it over the beds right before the rain yesterday. It fluffed up then dissolved and looks nice and green. Let's see if it helps! Your family is lovely!
Let us know how it works for you.
Alfalfa pellets are supposedly fantastic.
My zinnias get about 6-7’ tall in my garden. Glad to know that I can cut them early so they don’t get so tall.
That pitcher has been around in your vlogs for quite a while! I think you got your money’s worth out of that purchase Travis , LOL !! Great information thanks once again!
It's a good one. Most of the plastic ones end up chipping over time, but this one is tough.
Sweetcorn is so flippin good. I love growing them.
Can't beat it!
Another great video I saw the new fertilizer and it’s ok to me it’s cheap 50 lbs for $34.00 plus shipping all in all like $50 bucks and will last a long time. Love seeing the whole family in the gardens thanks for quality time with you guys
I thought it was very affordable too. Looking forward to trying more of the Nature Safe products in the future if this goes well.
Travis, enjoyed the video and the new approach.
Thanks Matthew!
Love to see the family in the videos with you 😉
Thanks Andrew!
i did not know you had this channel..i'm following..good luck with the corn.
Glad you found us!
I have a new plot this year that I only tilled once to break up the bahia grass( it will be no till from now on) with nothing but cover crops for this summer. Instead of tarping it, I scattered about 20lbs. of iron clay peas and every leftover seed I had from past years in it. So far I have iron clay, English and snow peas, kale, turnips, radish, borage, several types of lettuce, kholrabi, watermelon, seminole pumpkin, butternut, 3 or 4 types of corn, crimson and dutch clover( which volunteered as I have tons on the property), a bunch of different flowers and who knows what else. All on overhead water. Not for production...just soil building. It will be fun to watch it and see what happens. This fall I'll sow it with berseem and rye and move my okra patch up there next spring. I'm really curious about how your corn turns out as I have never grown it organically(or no till for that matter). The less synthetics the better I say...good luck :)
Sounds like a plan. I'll be interesting to see how the rye does with the berseem clover. That clover is some amazing stuff.
nice video , i need to plant more flowers, i love to plant sunflowers for my bee hives , they go crazy for them in late summer,
For sure. We like to plant sunflowers as a cover crop when it gets hot and we can't grow much else.
Try planting the nasturtium Around your squash. It helps throw off the squash bugs 💕
It's pretty close to our squash, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to plant some right beside it.
I planted them right next to my squash plants this year for the first time.... hoping for good results fingers crossed!
We have bugs in epic proportions! Where did I put the nasturtium seeds?
Hi Travis. If you still have Old Troy in the shed you can get a hilling atchment for it quiet reasonable off the web.
Use your Grillo for tilling and Troy for a dedicated billing tool.
Just a thought. John S.
I don't have it anymore. Just the Grillo.
Grinding dry beans to replace bone (?) Meal is my. Favorite new thing to try. Lol but didn't finish your video first.
Travis, are there any fig updates? I don't know how deep you got into figs, but if you are still growing different fig varieties, that might be an interesting show to talk about the different types and flavor profiles. I only recently discovered how diverse figs could be, and it's really fascinating. The Malta Black you had last year is on my wish list.
Yes, I have quite a few different varieties growing. We'll definitely make some videos on those when they start producing.
Look at them GROWceries! You may already be familiar with Steve Soloman but he has pretty good info and resources for mineral balancing and growing nutrient dense food... keep up the great work, love the videos!
I am not familiar, but will check him out!
Travis, I have taken your advise on trying to minimize the amount of salt being put into my garden. Unfortunately up here in Canada it is hard finding large bags of organic fertilizer. Of what I have used so far, my plants seem to have taken to it well. My corn is nice and green. Tomatoes, peppers are flourishing.
Thank you.
Interesting alternative with the fertilizer. Look forward to your results. You might have to shoot some water to it and get the fertilizer where the roots can take it up better and quicker??? Also a thought was with the organic fertilizers, was from my past experience, you might have to give it another treatment sooner than you would have with the nitrate you normally use. I have not planted my corn yet (this weekend) but will adjust my fertilizer application on the late crop in June based upon how you do with your trials. Thanks Travis. Good luck on it.
We'll be getting rain all day tomorrow, so that should soak it pretty well. Definitely might need to add another round. We'll just keep an eye on the corn and see.
Your Yellowstone corn looks terrific! The variety I’m growing this year is Cherokee White Eagle. Our growing zone is behind yours. My corn is only up about about two inches.
Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 5/3/2021.
I'm a little envious of all these cool heirloom varieties that you're always trying. Let me know how you like that one.
Will do!
Yes, the rare, heirloom, varieties intrigue the daylights out of me! More often than not, they have better flavor! Kate
Love 7 springs live just a few hours from them great products great folks
Used to run into them on the trade show circuit years ago. Good folks indeed.
You can pinch cosmos at that size just like zinnias! Also I’m so jealous of how much basil you guys have already
Probably need to do that!
I agree on the basil front. I had some great basil plants started from seed. Best looking I'd grown. I had transplanted some and was going to transplant the rest but a frost came in and wiped them out. Some of the tomato plants and pepper plants got nipped, too, but have recovered. I sure was looking forward to the basil.
Cool to see you focusing more on soil health...those slow release fertilizers would start releasing sooner and release over a shorter time in your no till plot...alfalfa pellets are another good thing to use this way and it has a lot of trace minerals in it
True. The more biology (and heat), the faster they convert.
I will be trying alfalfa pellets this year. The corn won't go in the ground until May 15th so it will be a while before I can say how well it works. I put some alfalfa pellets down a week ago so it can begin breaking down before the corn goes in.
In hindsight, this would have worked better if I would have applied prior to planting. But oh well, we'll see what happens.
Your corn looks real good!
I’m curious to see how the organic fertilizer turns out I bet if I keep watching your videos in chronological order I soon will!
God bless
It's working well so far. Grew popcorn with only organic fertilizer and had an amazing harvest.
Just reminds me of a big bag of blood meal.... I'm leaning towards blood meal myself after planting and using it on my romain lettuce
It's a good nitrogen source, just slow.
@@LazyDogFarm I’m in no hurries
Great informative video 👍
Thanks William!
Priceless!
Thanks Lerone!
The leaves of the nasturtiums are great in salads as well.
Oh yes!
@@LazyDogFarm and if you like a little horseradish kick then throw a couple of the green seed pods in some stir fry. :-)
I know you have a Grillo,, as I’ve seen it in other videos in the background. You can use the Aldo Biagioli Adjustable Ridger for the Grillo between the rows to hill. I have one, and it works nice. 😀
I will check it out
I wish you would have done half rows with the nitrate and other half with the other fertilizer, I would have loved to see the difference in how it grows!
I love your videos I learn so much from them!
I also have auto immune disease would love to hear more about that too!!
That would have been a good comparison. I'm not sure of all the details on the diet, but it's basically no gluten and no processed foods.
Alfalfa pellets are very cheap and great fertilizer.
Snip the tops off of the basil and they will get bushy by forming more side branches.
Noted.
I like to harvest all my basil and make pesto sauce and freeze it in ice trays. After it freezes, I’ll remove from trays and put in a zip lock in the freezer. For a quick meal, I’ll cook chicken breast. Then cook a pound of pasta and throw in 4 pesto cubes and they sliced up grilled chicken. Quick, easy and good.
Great idea!
I do the same thing with pesto.
Purslane (pigweed) is a summer green we boil and eat regularly. It is much lower in oxalic acid than spinach and kale.
We must be talking about a different kind of pigweed. Around here, pigweed is slang for wild amaranth. We have purslane too, but doesn't look anything like what we call pigweed.
@@LazyDogFarm Ohhhh. Right. pigweed can mean that horribly prickly wild amaranth. Nasty stuff. Portulaca - purslane is also called pigweed by some. Growing up in Tifton we had a hairy kind of purslane. Where I live now it is smooth and a great food. All the best in your new ventures.
Enjoying the videos. Pinch your heads off the basil like your zinnias instead of plucking the leaves. It makes a full, bushy plant.
Thanks for the tip!
Hello, your baby boy doesn't care to eat nor taste a flower. I haven't tried to eat one as yet either. I can't get past the mental part. Thank you for sharing your family.
He usually will eat anything, but that day didn't want to try the flower.
Hi Travis, I'm no expert on growing corn, but have you thought about using a mix of bio-char, feather meal, azomite, alfalfa meal, kelp meal ? A cup of bio-char has the surface area of a tennis court..mix with other fert supplements and it will give you a longer window in your fertilization needs...I use this method for my brussel sprouts, brocholi,( long term crops), wet your biochar and other ingredents
I have not ever used biochar, but am making an attempt to be more organic with my fertilizations. Trying a lot of products and formulations that I haven't tried in the past.
Awesome i feel braver i want to eat flowers too lol 👍👍👍🤣
Go for it!
One of the things I've noticed (very subjective) is that with the 20-20-20 you can dang sure grow more, and turn something around quick, but I swear they don't seem to taste the same. I'm thinking I'm going to stock some of both, and try to use mostly natural fertilizers, and trying desperately to build my sand into soil (cover crops, amendments, etc), but if a crop seems to be struggling, I'm gonna hit that vein, with some quick juice, to hold it over till the slow release can kick in.
No doubt the 20-20-20 works. I haven't noticed the taste difference you mention. But I do think you have a solid plan -- use it sparingly only when necessary.
ive heard alot of good things about alfalfa feed,, comes in pallets or meal, and at about $15. for 50 lbs, def cheap enough, im planting sweet corn tomorrow as a matter of fact,, i have calcium nitrate for the corn and i'll use that as planed. but im gonna stop in at the feed store and try out the alfalfa for the rest of the garden. my beds are mostly home made compost, i do use fertalizer but not alot, if the alfalfa works like ive heard, that will maybe kick all the other fertalizers to the curb for me. i've heard you mention that you don't mulch as you don't wanna move the mulch out of the way, well if you can find a sorce for fall leaves, you can use half done leaf mould as a mulch and just leave it there when you replant. i save up all the leaves i can in the fall and use for mulch and leaf mold as well as in my compost piles.
I don't have a good source for leaves, but would be willing to give it a try if I did. Let us know how those alfalfa pellets work for you.
@@LazyDogFarm brother buy you a leaf vaccum and head to a forest in any national park or hell just on the side of an old country road somewhere. You can collect tons of leaves in a few hours and its the best free fertilizer and mulch in the world
Nasturtiums leaves and flowers can go into pesto.
Hey Travis, love seeing your family on this video. Not familiar with that kind of corn. Is it a one ear or two ear variety? What are we talking about 250-300 ears. Wow. I never thought about salts in the fertilizer. I am curious to see your harvest results and timing. Thanks for the info!
Any sweet corn we grow, regardless of variety, usually only makes 1-2 good ears per stalk. Sometimes the second ear isn't well developed.
No synthetic ferts in my corn. Some very well aged cow manure, or what I call, barn scrapin's, before planting, maybe a side dress if needed. Got 3 different corn plots, trying different things with them. The more you experiment with learning how it all fits together, the more possibilities. Ever see corn with 3 or 4 tillers and the tillers grow ears? Playing with alfalfa meal in one, maybe a little bone meal. Have another plot, no till deep mulch.... that's going to be some monster corn.
Our corn only seems to "sucker" or form "tillers" when our nutrient delivery or watering isn't timely. My perspective has always been that no suckers means I'm doing something right. Never seen the suckers form additional ears.
@@LazyDogFarm You just helped me connect some dots. My understanding of tillers is a bit different, but watching your other video on your no till garden also helped put it together for me. Now to grow out the season and observe. While I'm not ready to draw any conclusions just yet I may have a new hypothesis on this. I'm still learning a lot and I encourage you to keep exploring "no till" though I share your opinion on dogmatic gardening practices. It's all parts of a whole. Thanks much!
I use blood meal in my soil mix for my container garden because it is a slow release and provides a steady nitrogen source for the entire growing cycle. That being said, i still use 20-20-20 commercial fertilizer for all of my side dressings, using them in combination works amazingly well! The only drawback is the excessive cost of blood meal, there is no way i could use it in the row garden. I can buy a 40 pound bag of 20-20-20 for what three 15 pound bags of blood meal costs and 5 pounds of 20-20-20 will go much further than 5 pounds of blood meal which is another benefit.
This 13-0-0 I bought was surprisingly affordable for an organic nitrogen source. I put the link in the description.
Try ground up dry beans.
@@MissBetsyLu i'd rather eat my beans.
@@gregblanton9386 no no no. I mean very cheap organic dry beans (like, maybe outdated) from anywhere. Gotta try this for fertilizer.
Don't forget to give us an update. Thanks
For sure!
Sweet little children you have there.
Nasturtiums are a good source of lutein, an important nutrient in eye vitamins taken by people with history/family history of macular degeneration.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Just how long does typical slow release fertilizer like triple 10 or triple 19 keep feeding your crop in days?
This is a bit of a guess, but I'd say around a month or so.
Shows that organic corn going
You can see the sweet corn harvest in this video: ruclips.net/video/d1F0JNYkicM/видео.html
And an update on our organic popcorn in this video: ruclips.net/video/b7-7vJzLXEo/видео.html
At this point I’m usually starting my side dressing with urea. Cheap, natural and a ton of fast acting nitrogen. I’ll dress one more time with urea just prior to tassel when corn is about 4-5’ tall. Needs to be watered in well though
That's a good one too!
Alright alright alright
Yes indeed!
In the past I have watched you on your "other gardening channel" use the fertilizer injector tank to fertilize crops. I noticed that you put the hose bib connector directly on the spigot and then hooked the garden hose to the other end of the hose bib connector. I have tried this technique with minimal success. The research that I have done on this says to put the hose bib connector on after the filter regulator. So in other words the fertilizer tank is near the main line tubing of the drip irrigation system. Do you know anything about this? Didnt know if you were having the same problems or not. Thanks
I've never had any issues with having the hose bib at the spigot. Because I have 10 different plots, I don't want to have to move that hose bib connector each time I fertilize a different plot. So I put it at the spigot and am just moving the hose from plot to plot, not the injector itself.
Very interesting video! My biggest problem here is making myself not inject fertilizer - The only thing my soil needs is nitrogen, so this "animal feed" might be a good option for me this year.
I know. Injecting is so easy. But if you're going to be hilling, bout as well side-dress before you do it.
Did you hear about grinding up dry beans to replace meal fertilizer? Cool or what?
Gotter did !
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Was going to spray for bugs today. Noticed many ladybugs and bees. Do not want to disturb. What and when do I need to spray. Squash, cabbage in zone 9A.
Bt is a good start. Just be sure to spray late in the evenings.
BROTHER TRAVIS, WHAT A PRECIOUS FAMILY. GOD BLESS YOU ALL IN JESUS NAME.
Thanks Melinda!
Barilla makes a great GF pasta that we really like.
Not sure of the brand she's been using, but it's a chickpea-based pasta and it's really good!
I planted 1/3 of a 162 tray of basil because last year about 10 people asked me for some.... so this year those same folks don't want any lol
Haha. That's how it goes. At least you'll have plenty for yourself.
@@LazyDogFarm you want any? Lol
Good video
Thanks
You should do the same treatment on the basil as you did to the zinnias. Cut off the center stalk to make pesto and side branches will develop. Basil will get very bushy if you keep taking off the tops.
Good to know. Will do. Herbs are not my specialty, but I'm trying to get better at it and willing to learn.
@@LazyDogFarm I'm good with basil. You might find it starts to look bad with high heat and humidity, and is easily damaged by heavy rain. Once it starts to look bad it's not worth trying to save, just pick it down and replant a fall crop. Traditional basil, with the lush, green leaves, has a high water content. I raise mine in a Vertigro hydroponic system with a constant water and nutrient supply. You might find good results if you planted it in your tomato plot with drip irrigation and regular food injection.
My corn is about 12 inches tall. Is it okay to sprinkle alfalfa pellets in the soil with the corn. Thanks
Sure.
I just purchased some fertilizer for my corn for side dressing that is 34-0-0. It is not organic. Will that fertilizer be too hot for the corn?
Just be easy with it. It won't take much of that.
Top your cosmos the same way you top your zinnias.
Curious to see the results of this different fertilizer.
Thanks for the tip!
Mantap
Direct seeded some Peaches and Cream 4/18, no germination as of yet. In Zone 9A. Should I give up and replant?
I can usually get my corn germinated in 3-5 days with ample water. If it hasn't germinated yet, I don't believe it will.
Thanks, real hard time with germination of okra, peas, beans and watermelons. All planted on 4/18 and very little growth. Think I need to cut my losses and replant all.
The nasturtium leaves are good for pesto.
Good to know. We'll have to add some next time we make it.
@@LazyDogFarm that's where the peppery taste is.
I have terrible luck with growing corn so I’m interested to see how this turns out
Corn is pretty easy once you realize just how heavy a feeder it is. It has to have plenty of water and plenty of nutrients.
@@LazyDogFarm yeah I don’t think I feed it enough and pollination is weird for me. I have yet to get a full cob. I might just be growing the wrong types. Who knows. I’m in central Florida now but will be moving to northern Alabama this year so hopefully will have better luck
@@Root_and_Fleurish_Farm When you start seeing silks, shake the top of the stalks to help the pollen get from the top of the plant down to the silks.
@@LazyDogFarm awesome! Thanks so much! Will definitely try that 👍🏼
Travis can I use calcium nitrate to side dress my corn as I have 10lb bag leftover or should I just order some chillelan nitrate
Don’t see why not.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you you’re the best have learned a lot from watching and listening on both of the shows keep up the great work
I've heard people using alfalfa pellets. I'm wondering if powered milk could be used for plant's that need calcium. Just trying to think of more organic.
I've heard a lot about the alfalfa pellets as well, but have yet to try them.
I buy crushed oyster shells from my feed store. Cheap.
Travis, what is the difference between the Chilean Nitrate and the Calcium Nitrate?
Are their uses the same?
Sodium Nitrate (Chilean) vs Calcium Nitrate -- so the main difference is the ion (Na vs Ca) that the nitrate is attached. Calcium Nitrate is useful for crops that need extra calcium -- peppers, tomatoes, eggplant and even broccoli.
We need to find out where you got that fertilizer. I don't know if anyone up in this half of Georgia has good stuff like that
I put the link in the video description.
@@LazyDogFarm I'm an idiot
I use bat guano, urea, and feather meal.
Bat guano is some good stuff!
It sure is. I started looking at the nitrogen needs curve for corn. That guano fit right in the mix when I say it. I was just going to alternate calnite and urea.
Saw it*
Wish you would have fertilized one row the old way for comparison side by side.
That would have been a great comparison.
Good for those who have livestock like me free fertilizer 🤗
Yes indeed!
Could we wait till the zinnia blooms first before we prune it? I hate to miss that bloom.
You can, but it helps to keep the plant from getting too tall and leggy.
i think its great you are trying the organic slow release , you may not get good results yet because of a lack of soil biology right now but dont give up too soon, it is my understanding that synthetic fertilizer will cause harm to the soil microbes wich are necessary to make the organic fertilizer to a usable form for the plants to use, you might try running some fish hydrolisate thru your injector instead of the 20,20,20 in a future experiment
thanks for your videos
I agree. I do usually run at least one cycle of fish emulsion through the injector on every crop I grow.
@@LazyDogFarm if you get a chance research the difference between fish hydrolysate and emulsion, supposedly the emulsion is heat treated but the hydrolysate is not and so retains some biology as opossed to just n,p,k values, i am in the early learning stages also and find your videos very helpful as we deal with the hot and humid conditions here in north central fl, we also use your complete organic fertilizer and are having great results
thanks
@@bobkernahan6340 I've used both the "emulsion" and the "hydrolysate." I tend to call them both fish emulsion, although there are obvious differences in the processes to make each. Yes, the hydrolysate is supposed to have more biological activity.
In your fertilizer calculation, you decided that since the organic has a similar concentration as the inorganic you have been using, you'll just put them on at the same rate. Shouldn't you also be considering the period of time over which that nitrogen will be released? In a very simplified example, consider fertilizers A and B, which contain the same amount of nitrogen, but B releases at half the rate of A. Then to have the same amount of nitrogen available to the plants you need to initially use twice as much fertilizer B as you would fertilizer A, but on the second application you can use less than the initial application because there will still be some fertilizer B remaining in the ground.
Very true. We'll probably need to adjust based on some experimentation.
Does chilean nitrate have salt in it?
"Chilean nitrate" is sodium nitrate -- so it is a "salt" by chemical classifications.
Did the pelleted stuff end up working?
Yes it works very well. We've been using it ever since.
Thanks Travis!
You bet!
How to treat for the worms?
This stuff right here: www.amazon.com/Monterey-LG6150-Garden-Spinosad-Concentrate/dp/B000BWY3OQ/ref=asc_df_B000BWY3OQ/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198107334619&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15170391175176905606&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9011392&hvtargid=pla-343191223834&psc=1
Spray the silks every week (late in the evenings) when they develop.