i would like to do organic as long as its hydroponic so it seems if i really want to do that
will have to go aquaponic since i don not feel pbp is organic and do not do jug nutes anymore
it would take more than a few fish..hahaha
anyway..I have kelp, dry soluble fulvic and amino acids... starting to use that as foliar
Hi OMS quick heads up, you shouldn't get too hung up on Organics per se (unless of course, it is for ethical reasons) because the term organics could be considered a bit of a misnomer as far as the plant is concerned. Because regardless of the source of the plant feed, nutrients are always absorbed by plants in an inorganic form.
Therefore whether you are using “synthetic” fertilizer salts or an organic cow pat from a field reared cow, both will end up in the plant as exactly the same inorganic matter so from your plants perspective they will never know the difference between the two sources.
In the case of the cow pat the organic matter is broken down (mostly by biological activity in the soil) into digestible inorganic matter which can then be taken up by your plants. In the case of fertilizer salts, they are already in inorganic form and.are therefore more freely bio-available than organic matter.
Kelp mixed with soluble Fulvic is a good way to go because the Fulvic acid acts as a chelating agent (so does the amino acid) and therefore makes all the ions readily available for absorption.
With regards to Foliar spraying with amino acids, in my opinion, that seems like a good idea because amino acid cycling and transport takes place at the roots where amino acids are imported through the Phloem and then exported through the Xylem and into the leaves, by foliar feeding the amino acids to the plant directly to where it needs to be should in theory mean less work for the plant = more energy to spend elsewhere.... Tbh though I have not conducted a proper trial to test which way is best me personally I used to root feed the amino acids to my plants purely because this is how it is in nature.
Maybe you could conduct a trial to see if foliar feeding is considerably better than root feeding
Ps good amino acids to use are;
L - Glutamic Acid = Chelation, Stimulates Growth, Promotes Germination
L - Lysine = Chelation, Chlorophyll Synthesis Stimulation, Promotes Germination
L - Serine = Auxin Precursor
build ,very nice
does well in many situations.