Cool seems like you have that pegged, may i ask why you stopped foliar feeding?
The gogo juice hasn't seemed to have any real effect when i have used it but it's nice to know the micros are being supported!
Did you use tap water when using gogo juice? I'm trying to leave standing water out for a while to get rid of chlorine after I applied gogo juice.
As far as not using liquid fertilizers, it's because I admit I don;t know what I'm doing most of the time, so I back off, put the plants under a tree for shade, and back off. Sure I won't have the biggest plants, the fastest growing plants, the most pods etc. All I want is healthy plants with minimum cost and fuss. If they are nice and green, and growing without showing any deficiencies, then my job is done
I'll had stuff if they need it. It might be seasol if they are wilting, epsom salts if the look like they need magnesium or sulphur, or chuck on some more blood and bone fert, or rooster booster/dynamic lifter. They really shouldn't need that much fussing over though really. Sure others can do it and it gives them better bigger plants, but I'm sure I'd make the situation worse if I tried to turn my plants into monsters. I just want them ticking along and healthy, so I can get some pods, without over fertilising/overwatering.
On that note...
nice update pablo. I sometimes wish my plants were a few kms away so I wouldn't mess with them as much .... maybe some of them would do better that way
I wish I could be more hands off, but I have to go squish aphids at least once a day. I don't want to use pesticides that kill good and bad bugs ( though I go heavy on ant killer, was running around chasing them yesterday with a can of flyspray when I ran out of ant powder LOL). Use pesticides on the plants though, and everything is gone and you have to keep buying and using pesticides.
Makes sense for farmers with 5000 plants that can;t tend to all of them and there's their livelihood at stake for a good crop, but not for me with ~60 plants. And I don't even have to look after all 60 something, aphids normally attack the plants in pots, hardly ever one on the plants in the ground. So taking the time to just squish the ones that show up on the potted plants myself.
There's always more aphids that show up everyday, but then again you will only attract a predator when there's a food source, so I do wish the ladybugs and lacewings would hurry the fook up and get here.
Not like this is a desert, it's a 100 year old block with heaps of trees (fig, lemon, mandarin, lime, grape vines, almond), and other plants like roses, ivy, shrubs, palms, natives etc.
Maybe the plastics smell from the buckets/pots attracts ants and aphids, while repel lacewings, hoverflys and ladybugs? Or maybe they just prefer chinense plants which are in pots, over annuums which are in the ground mainly? (only plant in the ground that was attacked by aphids was a congo black, none of the annuums ever were touched.)
Edit: Leaving water standing around after applying gogo juice has presented me with a problem. The water is in buckets I bought for my last seedlings! Unsure now as to buy more buckets, buy $7 300mm pots from bunnings, buy black plastic pots elsewhere cheaper, or give some smart pots or root air pots a go for the last 11 seedlings. After all, some catch up for them would be great this late in the season...
Anyone tried the locally made anti spiral pots from garden city plastics? I've read here quite a few people that have bought pots direct from there.
Or what about the rocket pod from them?
