Foliar Feeding and Fertilizing your plants - Benefits and the science
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Foliar Feeding is an excellent way for your vegetable and fruit plants, and trees, to absorb the maximum amount of nutrients as possible. In the video, I will explain to you the science of how leaves absorb nutrients, through foliar spraying your plants. In addition, I will explain how to do it, when to do it and how more effective foliar feeding can be compared to traditional fertilizing at the root level. I hope you enjoy this video and find foliar feeding useful in your garden.
I know this is a 6 year video, but stumbled upon it after realizing my plants leaves felt thicker and fuller after spraying them with nutrients and water on a whim. Absolutely crazy the difference! Will continue to do this from now on. My plants were thriving before, but now they're becoming almost weeds. Growing, and blooming more than ever. Spectacular!
I found feeding right before sunset is best. Feeding early in the day is fine but if you get to much sun you can burn the plants because water droplets act as little magnifiers. Iv seen growers miss diagnose the burn spots for pest also
I stumbled onto foliage feeding completely by accident last year. I used a garden hose and attached the feeder which released the product during normal watering. The result was an awesome array of snapdragons. Most of my contemporaries had rejected this plant long ago...but the bees, the bees did not. I was rewarded by a plethora of the little fertilizers. Remember, no fertilizers, no fruit. It was quite fascinating how the bees moved the pollen from flower to flower and from plant to plant. Of course, you can also do the beehive thing if you are so inclined.
I just started foliar fertilizing my petunias and this video is just what I needed. Thanks so much from Malaysia.
I just started a foliar feeding schedule on a sun damaged and neglected Carmen Hass avocado tree. I think it needs help from the roots up to the leaves. Great information thanks for sharing.
I recently got into hydroponics.
Using masterblend for nutrients.
I thought to use it as a leaf spray.
So i applied it in the morning.
They soaked up the nutrients fairly quickly.
The yellowing leaves began turning green in no time.
Very great stuff 🙃
I foliar feed yucca, fresh aerated compost tea, great white, orca and photosynthesis plus.
Sometimes if I can afford it, I even combine all the above in my compost tea and use that as well.
I love the way photo plus smells, don't you? nah im only kidding. The plants love it though.
I am learning so much from your videos! I rent a very small house and look forward to growing tomatoes these last 2 years. But I have to say just in the past 3 days I have learned so much from you I am at a new "excitement level"! I am also growing mixed variety of lettuces, snap peas, tomatillo's (first time) cucumbers (first time) and squash all in pots. Looking forward to a great growing season with you! I am here in 8a, Oregon! Thank you so much for offering your time and experience with us! Aloha, Catherine
+catherine r - Catherine, thanks for the note. I am so glad that you are growing all these different types of veggies and fruit and having success. We all learn from each other in this community. -Jeff
So nicely explained otherwise other vloggers skip some points (as if they don’t want to divulge all their secret traits of gardening)….
Thoroughly enjoying & learning from your channel! What an awesome thing u do with the community garden. I have just started my little container garden & I am trying to learn as much as I can. Alot of learning from mistakes! :) thank you for what you do. God bless!
+Brooklyngirl1969 - Thanks for the kind words. We are all humbly learning from on another.
Hi Jeff, I have watched your lesson here in Australia and have learned something new that I needed to know. Thank you very much. Vielen Dankand God bless you.
Hi Jeff, I certainly appreciate your teaching. Also, I am very impressed with the fact you mentioned you just started gardening a few years ago and when I see your plants and garden I am completely in awe! Thank you and I am looking forward to learning more from your teaching. Love and Light. Sadiejane
+Sadiejane Stewart - thank you. I spend a lot of time really learning about the science of gardening. It is a passion of mine.
Hello Jeff, thank you for the great imformation on how to use foliar feeding, I'm just starting planting vegetables here in Philippines. .
Sto-Mata is how I learned it in botany, two syllables not Sto-MA-TA. But yes foliar is good especially if you have any root problems. It's like intensive care for a plat with hurt roots.
Either way you say it, it's three syllables...he's just emphasizing the wrong part of the word www.howmanysyllables.com/words/stomata
Who cares! Is it toe-may-toe or toe-mah-toe? Focus on the info and data he is offering. If he had purple hair..would you focus on his hair.
Its good
Tad’s comment made me laugh. Would like to hear it as two syllables LOL.
the science behind underneath the leaf. glad I came across this vid.
Good info, thank for sharing!
What an awesome gift for your viewers, it's so much fun giving back to them for all the insights they give us.
Have a great day!
Just bought liquid fertilizer from our local organic nursery. Thank you very much for this video, it was very informative and will definitely help our growing garden.
+JRayJ75 - Good luck, you plants will thank you.
Hey Jeff wanna say thank you for the info and education and keep up your great videos man. God bless 🙏🏽
Thanks Evan, God Bless to you too and happy gardening!
First time watch your video. I learned. I don't have a garden but have a lot of indoor plants. I will try to spread before sunrise and also the back side of the leaves. Hope this matter useful and make them happier. Thanks!
Nice & important information about foliage spray plus root nutrient supply thanks.
Very useful Information. Thanks
Thanks for the insight. I will foliar feed this week and try to keep up a regimen.
+DW Marschall - It is working for me. Make sure to do it in morning.
I want to spray it on wheat which is 65 days for first time what raito should give of N P K or other nuterients to gain good yield It is ot so good just satisfactory so far Thanks
Thanks so much for the information...
Very simple and clear information. Excellent presentation. Tq
Just started Foliar feeding today and am looking forward to comparing the results to my old soil application.methods.
Great video and info. simple and easy to understand, tks again.
I do it every day on my special tomatoes 👍✊ half strength, growth is epic.
You'll also want to use like a Castile soap so they can break the water tension and it will get a better spread on the underside of the leaf and it will be absorbed better
Learned a lot with episode. Thanks
Very educational. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the great lesson on the benefits and techniques for foliar feeding!
You bet. Thanks f or the comment.
Thanks for the video. I've started Foliar Feeding this spring. I feeding with Epsom Salt and Ocean Magic. I hope to upload my video soon. It's been a while since I've done an update.
+Greg Heal - Thanks for sharing Greg.
GOD BLESS Jeff thank you for the info
Thank you! I'll do this! I love gardening and enjoy all your videos and advice!
+Jan Smith - Thank you Jan. Happy Gardening.
Random question: Do you need to rinse the leaves with water the following day? I got a foliar product that recommends doing so to remove possible mineral buildup, but I've never heard anyone mention this technique in the videos I've watched. Thanks.
Trying to decide if spraying my Thai Constellation and my poor, sad Ficus tree will benefit from foliar spraying Silica from Amazon? In Phoenix, the daytime temps now are about 115º. At night it's about 90+0186. I'd like to foliar spray my Meyer Lemon and my Tangerine Trees, but it's too hot?
Thank you Jeff for the tip is very good to know about Foliar feeding .
@Brian Kyler you are so a pise a cheat ...trsaxh in this country . and also i told the police about you get off ..
Thanks very much for yours kind video 🙏👍
Nice video! I plan on trying the foliar feeding. Plus will try aspirin feeding as well. Thanks for the info regarding when and how to feed. That was the most important to me!
+Karl Becker - You bet Karl. Happy Gardening.
great video. thanks
Great video Jeff I didn't know about that the leaves open their's pores underside ....
Thanks!
I didn't know the underside of the leaves are what should be sprayed.
+Joe Schmoe I would spray all over but most stomata are on under side of leaf.
Thank you jeff.... Good job..keep safe and god bless.
stomata is actually the greek word for mouth! makes sense!
stomata are fully open during 10am to 16am
Thanks for the video!! Very helpful.
thank you 🙏💝💐
I use Azomite for my garden and I have noticed the taste is incredible. However, I am curious. Can you create a foliage spray with Azomite or will it be too powdery? Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
+Sadiejane Stewart - I do not think you can. The ingredients used in the foliar spray need to be water soluble for the leaves to take in the nutrients.
Great information, thanks so much!
very well explained ,Thanks a lot
Very well explained.. thank u sir.
Get the Sunjoe sprayer. It stays charged for 4 hours. No pumping the sprayer. Comes in 1 or 2 gallon size. I just use the 1 gallon size. So go look it up. Worth every cent I paid.
Can I use a foliar feed and a pesticide? Not at the same time but maybe. Few days apart? Will the foliar spray effect the pesticide
Does rain water contain beneficial microbes? Is foliar feeding indoor plants with rain water something that would be beneficial?
Very informative thanks
Very interesting, good information, thanks
Foliar sprays need ionic solutions in order to absorb decent amounts of any element.... Think Magnesium Sulphate, Calcium Nitrate etc.
Organic compounds need to lose their carbon in the soil before entering the plant efficiency.
Im curious,will using the nano atomic spray gun used for covid disinfecting work for foliar spraying?..Its a very small particle mist,wouldnt it be able to penetrate the stomata easier and also saving fertiliser
Great info on foliar feeding , thanks.
my pleasure;
Hello Jeff,
we got a plot in a community garden and everything seemed to be ok but now the leafs of the beans, peppers, etc. are turning yellow, the green onion had some kind of worms inside, the tomatoes don't keep growing and somebody said that the people who used this plot last year didn't get veggies from this plot. I am thinking that the soil has some larvae and now the worms/maggots are attacking the plants. Do you have any idea what could it be and how to get rid of this infection?
Thank you.
The most important thing for you to do with the plot is to build the soil. I would recommend replacing the soil, or amending the soil, with a ton of organic matter and compost. If you build healthy soil, with lots of nutrients, your plants will grow very healthy. I would check on your garden regularly and watch for pests and they can be treated with a variety of organic treatments.
At the beginning I applied Pro-Mix organic soil, I dag it in, I applied another layer, I watered once with Epson salt solution and I sprayed and watered with Alaska fish emulsion + seaweed extract solution. Could these affect the plants? Thanks for your time.
Nice video sir I am from India
Leafs have an epidermis?
Your information is quite right. However, did you ever think of using substance like yucca extract to help the spray stick to the leaves... this can be found on amazon.ca, or even through the channel NPR university....this is just to help expand your information to help gardeners like you, me, and whoever else.
Do you dilute your fertilizer the way you would if you were fertilizing the roots (and as suggested by the brand)? Thanks!
Good information, Jeff. Thank you. ~Nancy
Do I get same result if I spray it evening time ?
Yes, as long as it is not too hot. Should be below 75 degrees.
thank you!
Have you tried the Atomic Mister? It is loud, but has the power to put a high powered mist or fog on your crop. Great for BT applications!
+Gardener Earth Guy - I have not, but will check it out.
Hey Jeff .. New to your videos.. We planting fruits trees .. From limes to apples trees ..
Now you said put epson salt in the soil.. And what other organic fertilizer do you use.. So you can have lots of fruits on the trees .. And how often do you feed your fruits trees ..we just live 3 hrs from Houston .. So I think we in the same planting zone .. ....so we trying to put more fruits trees this year .. Thanks for your great videos..
+Celine Bridges - Good source of N-P-k and spray leaves with micro nutrients for foliar spray. I would focus on good amount of phosphorus suppl for lots of flowers, which turn to fruit. Keep in mind that for most fruit trees, you will need two to pollinate each other.
Why should foliar spray in the top as well when the stomata is below the leaves ?
Hi sir Jeff! I am a new grower here. I would like to clarify about what you've said that the same fertilizer should be applied on the soil. So does it mean that the same foliar fertilizer must be applied to the soil or just the same content of the foliar fertilizer?
Thanks for the information!! Can't wait to try this on my fruit trees!
+LOVEfashion1001 - It should work well!
Thanks for the video I have been wondering about this. Subbed!
Worked well for me.
Always love your videos!
+Casscia - Thanks.
Do you ph your Foliar spray?
is there any organic adjuvant that u suggest??
Hi Jeff really am enjoying your videos. I'm learning so much. I had watch your video on growing container tomatoes. In it you used the miracle grow Liquid 1T. In a gallon of water once a week I believe. If I do that, is that all I need for them? Sorry, still learning.
That is all, yes.
I just got a jalapeno pepper seedling plant transplanted into a bigger pot it had flowers and buds when can I start to or can I use Epsom salts and water on my seedling pepper leaves for foliage feeding or what?
Wait a few weeks after transplanted.
During summer my temps here are usually 76-81 degrees lows at night. Would you say that I should forego foliar feeding and just do a root drench type of application?
+boilednuts - With that type of heat, I would focus on root drench, but give foliar a try early in the morning. Depending on the plant to stoma may be open.
Thx Jeff,lots of wind in ur videos,good video cheers,,Bob
Very informative, but you didn't talk about having a transport wetting agent.
Wonderful video, Jeff. All my gardening is done in containers and I'm definitely going to try foliar feeding my tomatoes this year. Can you do a root drench with the leftover foliar spray fertilizer? Or would that be overkill?
+Christina Goldman - I would rotate root drench with foliar every few weeks. It may be too much.
can phosphorus absrob through leaves? please illustrate
Well presented.
Hello Jeff, I have bougainvillea plant in pot. after applying liquid mustard fertilizer,still its not flowring,only leaves are coming out. can I spray banana liquid fertilizer on leaves ?will it work?plz share your opinion. How often I need to spray on leaves?
Stress out your bougainvillea! Let it dry out and slightly wilt then water. This makes lots of blooms
this is useful.
Hi Jeff will you use a fixative ?
Spraying at the bottom of the leaves cannot stress the flowers? I've noticed after spraying my plants almost all my flowers and buds will drop.
I have never had a issue with that
During flowering, don't feed. It stimulates grow and flowers with drop to give way for plant grow.
Nice information. But u didn't tel how much quantity of fertilizers used.
Hello sir very informative, thank u, im also a gardener i love ur channel, new sub here, more powerr sir!
how to recover lemon plant , burnt from over fertilize through foliar feed . Its losing leaves slowly slowly and dying from top . every day healthy leaf show some burn sign
jonassx100 overfertilising won’t be fixed by more fertiliser... flush out the soil by giving a really really good watering and then leave it alone for a bit.
Hi Jeff, I'm trying to foliar feed with kelp powder. Do I need a special sprayer for this? I tried using a regular spray bottle and it broke, getting clogged with particles of kelp
Hmm. I never used kelp powder.
okay. thanks for your response~
blue flame try running the solution through a cloth or coffee filter to remove undissolved solids, put these solids on the soil as top dressing. also use some surfactant to aid uptake into leaf tissue, due to the surface tension of water it will run off the leaf before doing any good, a surfactant massively increases uptake by increasing surface area contact and duration by reducing drop off/ run off. (a minute amount of liquid detergent, enough to create a light foam when shaken.
Hello, if we use fertilizer for foliar application in irrigation, does it give a positive result?
Only if you do it early in the morning or at dawn and make sure it gets under the leaves. You probably will waste a lot though, as most will drip off.
Wonderful
StoMAta is the correct press on the word.
Hello Jeff. I am Anuj from India. Your video was really insightful. Can you share a recipe to make foliar spray at home?
I bought mine online
okay. I made one using aloe vera, tea leaves juice and epsom salt.
+Anuj Goel how often you applied it?
Thanks Jeff, I like to use Epson Salt and foliar feed my tomatoes and grape Vines. But I'm going to get online and look for Sea Tea. Happy Gardening this season!
+Marsha Balderrama - Hope you have a great harvest!
😎🖒🌱
Is it ok to apply foliar liquid fertilizer in chili plants how often when the best time to give it in my chili plants. Thank you
early morning or dawn
great info! is this also necessary for indoor tropical plants
Yes, absolutely
im a bit skeptical i bought very expensive kelp liquid and sprayed my fuit trees maybe i didn't see a difference because the roots aren't established yet
Hmmm. Not sure worked well for me.