😵💫Isn’t the point of a plant stimulant to stimulate growth? i don’t understand the point you’re making.
Fairy pooped on my suggestion of using Seaweed, seaweed has a very little in the range of NPK how on earth can it produce excessive growth with very little nitrogen?
I very much understand how much feed will be delivered from any product containing NPK I also understand that farming a certain crop needs x amount of NPK per year to deliver to the crop. its a plant
If you have some basic understanding of the soil food web then you can use this to enhance the soil to work for you, so Seaweed for fungi And sugar for Bacteria I used Molasses. its not always about using man made ferts and chemicals get the soil healthy and it will work for you.
But I still follow most days, always a day to learn and follow a passion & a love of growing things, we have plenty to learn on some of the plants we inherited in moving.
I use liquid seaweed throughout the growing season whenever a plant seems to be struggling but I regard it as a tonic rather than a feed. It helps my box hedge to perk up if there’s any browning and a tree specialist nursery recommended that I use it to reduce transplant shock when a eucalyptus I had bought from them was struggling. I also use it once a week on my tree fern too and it seems to like it!
Seaweed does contain lots of trace elements, along with measurable amounts of NPK.
I use Maxicrop liquid seaweed and am always puzzled why the NPK ratio is not mentioned on the label. Other products with measurable amounts of NPK seem to mention it.
According to Amazon.com, @Plantminded , MaxiCrop Original Liquid Fertilizer N-P-K contents: 0.1-0.0-1.0. However, that might be using the American labelling system. So, lots of potassium which, really, is only to be expected of a seaweed based compound.
When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
Thank you @Winston_The_Gravity_Man, very little N and no P so good for flowering with the higher K level. Probably why it’s added to many tomato feed products now.
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i don’t understand the point you’re making.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I very much understand how much feed will be delivered from any product containing NPK I also understand that farming a certain crop needs x amount of NPK per year to deliver to the crop. its a plant
If you have some basic understanding of the soil food web then you can use this to enhance the soil to work for you, so Seaweed for fungi And sugar for Bacteria I used Molasses. its not always about using man made ferts and chemicals get the soil healthy and it will work for you.
Mycorrhizal fungi / RHS Gardening
Above for what some Fungi will do for your plants, and put in salt laden ferts to see how it kills it.Over to you Fairy
And yes I know I left ?
But I still follow most days, always a day to learn and follow a passion & a love of growing things, we have plenty to learn on some of the plants we inherited in moving.
Have a wonderful season in the garden.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border