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fertilizer Watering with foliar fertilizer

Flakes

Flakes

Hi!

I've got a NPK(Ca)(Mg), 10-0-0(+15CaO)(+2MgO) foliar fertilizer and I was wondering if you think there would be any problems if I used it as "normal" fertilizer - watering with it? Because it's got some sticky, oily thing in it so that it sticks better to the leaves.

Has anyone tried this before? Thanks! :)

EDIT: and I don't mean using it exclusively, obviously this isn't what you'd call a well-balanced fert :lol: , I just mean - can a foliar fertilizer be used for watering?
 
Sounds like that is a nice blend for foliar. I wouldn't waste it unless you had a significant supply. I think it would work fine on the roots, just better on the leaves. I have a bottle of something similar (Urea, CalNit and MagNit) and it cost more than the average fertilizer. The surfactant is also nice to save for the leaves.
 
I think it cost about the same than a normal liquid fert, maybe a bit more. It works well, the problem is, now that my plants are inside and under the lights, I really don't want to do any mysting, because I don't want to get any of it on the HPS bulbs. While they're on, that could cause them to pop, but even when they're off, I'd still end up with some of the sprayed water/fert sticking to the bulbs and I really don't want to do that.

So, I'm not really worried about wasting it, I'm just not sure if whatever's added to the foliar fertilizer to make it...well, a foliar fertilizer, will prevent absorbtion through the roots or do some other icky stuff if used for watering.

I've looked around and I've not really found anything on the web about this - which, in my experience, means that either it's such a mind-numbingly stupid idea that no one has considered it... or, it's so obviously not a problem that not even the most pedantic people have thought to suggest it as a potential issue (something like: "Can I really use a bucket of water to water my plants if the water-hose ain't working?"). :lol: :crazy:
 
Flakes said:
No, how would you do that? You mean buy a reflector that costs more than $5? :lol:
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Well that's one option... the other would be sealing your already existing one. while you're at it, redirect the heat elsewhere and then you could get the bulb closer.
 
The thing is, I'm not really trying to grow them under lights - I do that too, but with CFLs and MH (which do have a shield). The HPS bulbs are only meant to keep a large (for the watts I'm using) number of peppers alive and ripen a few pods during the winter - so, I want to "light up" as many peppers as possible with the given number of bulbs so keeping the lights closer would be counter-productive. Plus, there's really no way to do anything with these cheap reflectors, I'd really have to get new ones if I wanted them sealed.
 
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