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O K for foliar spray?

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INHERENT ABILITIES: Root protection... it's an enzyme that breaks down waste matter in your root system.

Not sure what benefit would be gained as a foliar spray.
 
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I wouldent use it as a foliar.. its not used for this as stated above^^ it has no n-p-k so it would be of little use..if you have problems with fungus use some neem friend..

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Before useing Hygrogyme I would dilute my res water and spray. Guess I'll start mixing my sprays.
 

Harry Gypsna

Dirty hippy Bastard
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Im gonna get the....yuo you guessed it, vita-link foliar, then all i need is the bio-plus and i fgot em all. Ill prolly move on then, lol
 
IF IT IS NOT DUTCH MASTER... Your Losing out... Penetrator is a MUST HAVE FOR ALL!!

IF IT IS NOT DUTCH MASTER... Your Losing out... Penetrator is a MUST HAVE FOR ALL!!

FOLITECH Is good every 3 days to 4thweek of Flowering.. VERY VERY GOOD..

Penetrator_ Let's you spray any Foliar spray without burning the leaves under the light & the nutes goes right into the plants... So watch what you feed them.. Also it makes Neem Oil last longer on the leaves in a true fashion.. It get intto the plants better than normal Wetting Agents.. Trust me.. It a winnner..

Penetrator R&D:This get add to all my foliar spary.. Welcome to the most scientifically advanced foliar fertilizer delivery agent ever offered. Dutch Master Penetrator has been specifically engineered on a molecular level to perform as a specialized foliar fertilizer delivery system that can be used with non insecticidal, herbicidal & fungicidal fertilizer applications. Dutch Master Penetrator is unique in that it can deliver foliar fertilizer ingredients via the leaf with unparalleled efficiency whilst still maintaining leaf system integrity. This makes Penetrator a true foliar fertilizer delivery system

NEW INFO ON FOLITECH FROM DUTCH MASTER>>> A must for all who want to add those goddies into your plants... You need to check out the New MAG.. The PIcs are real... NIce way to give nutes & addtives to plants...

Go to there web-site and have a look www.maximumyield.com

FULL CANADIAN ISSUE (part 2) TAKE A LOOK!!!

Leaves: Take a Closer Look

By Steve Berlow



If we think of a plant as a city, then all the different parts of the plant would represent the different functioning parts of that city. The xylem and phloem serve as the highways transporting goods around, the roots are the local port for incoming materials, and the leaves are the manufacturing and production centres. By thinking in these terms we can, with greater ease, visualise the importance of the leaves. If the manufacturing and production centres of a city are shut down or not producing, then the city soon grinds to a halt. If this happens, then the city would quickly shut down and turn into a ghost town. With this in mind, we can see that leaves are the single most important part of a plant. Without the leaves the plant cannot produce energy or materials for production, and without production there is no growth or development, which means no yield!

So let’s look a little further into these important little powerhouses of production so we can understand a little more about what they do, and more importantly, how we can increase their output to ultimately give us a greater yield!

Before we dive in too deep, it will help if we have a quick tour of our manufacturing and production facilities (the leaves) as this will help us better understand how and why our little factories are so important.

Sunlight Into Energy

Without sunlight, life on earth could not exist. It warms us, and through plants, ultimately supplies the rest of life on earth with food, which is, after all, our energy.

Plants convert this radiant energy (light) into a plant-usable form of energy through a complex series of reactions involving, primarily, carbon dioxide and a unique compound called rubisco. This combination ultimately yields sugar, which in turn provides the energy for other reactions that take place inside the plant.

One of the primary functions of the leaves (our manufacturing centres) is the conversion of light energy into a plant useable form of sugar. The more light the leaves can process, the more sugar or energy the plant can manufacture, which, in turn can significantly influence the rate of growth and development of your plant, ultimately increasing your yield!

So how does this occur? What happens inside the leaf? Can we measure this to see if our little factories are indeed producing more?

The Leaf Surface

This is the outside of our manufacturing centre, much like the outside of a building. The leaf surface stops unwanted things from getting in - such as fungi, viruses, etc. - thus allowing for the exchange of gas and water. Like most manufacturing centres, however, all the action takes place on the inside. So let’s have a look at Figure 1 which is a cross-section of a leaf showing all of the important features. Then let’s go inside for a more detailed examination of what goes on inside your leaves.

Description of Function

1. Upper epidermis. This is a single layer of cells that are quite transparent and permit most of the light that strikes them to pass through to the underlying cells. The upper surface is covered with a waxy, waterproof cuticle, which serves to protect against pathogens and to prevent excessive water loss.

2. Palisade layer. This consists of one or more layers of cylindrical cells that are filled with chloroplasts and carry on most of the photosynthesis in the leaf.

3. Spongy layer. Situated beneath the palisade layer. Although the spongy layer contains some chloroplasts, their main function seems to be the temporary storage of sugars and amino acids synthesized in the palisade layer. They also aid in the exchange of gases between the leaf and the environment.

Chloroplast Cells and Mitochondria

For our lesson today we are going to primarily look at the features associated with energy conversion and energy production.

The Palisade layer is where almost all the energy conversion action takes place. These specialised cells are primarily responsible for the conversion of light energy into a source the plant can use: sugar, or more specifically, glucose. The palisade cells contain, within them, specialised photoreceptive organelles called chloroplasts. It is these little fellows that actually perform the conversion of light energy into chemical energy. So we can think of the palisade layer as the power station for the plant, producing the raw energy that the manufacturing centres (mitochondria cells, etc.) will need, in conjunction with their raw materials (water, mineral elements etc) to produce the goods (hormones, enzymes, etc) that the plant needs to grow and develop. We can see that this is not unlike a typical manufacturing centre where our raw materials together with an energy source are used to produce the things the city needs to function and grow.

Foliar Performance Nutrition

Knowing a little more about the leaves of our plant and how they work together with how very important they are, should lead us to two very obvious and important questions. Can we access or influence the production process of the leaves? Can we measure this to see if our little factories are indeed producing more? Well I am happy to say the answer is a resounding yes - but not in a way you might think. Knowing the leaves are the primary influencing factor in the growth and development of your plants will lead you to the obvious realisation that almost everything you have been doing or supplying to your plants is a direct (or indirect) attempt to maximise the output of these little powerhouse performers, your leaves. You provide your plants with ample light (to hopefully maximize the amount of light energy your plants can convert), you provide your plants with ample food (raw materials for manufacture) and often you provide your plants with supplements (specialised manufacturing materials) in an attempt to, as you now know, influence the output of these factories (leaves) in a positive way.

How Can We Get More from Our Plants

Have you ever thought that the best way to increase the output of your plants was through the direct insertion of specialised materials exactly to where we now know they are required, inside the leaves of your plant? My guess is you have at some stage thought that this might be a good way to get your plant to produce more. Well guess what? It is a good idea; in fact it is a fantastic idea because it is the only way you can truly gain any significant or meaningful effects from applying specialised materials (performance supplements) to your plants.

The Long Inefficient Road vs the Direct Route

Traditionally, every one of us has gone down the long slow traditional way by supplying their performance-based supplements to their plants via the roots. This works great for traditional elements such as Nitrogen, Phosphorus Calcium etc., but not so great for performance based specialist materials. Why? For two very good reasons. Firstly, most performance based supplements or specialised materials have a very low absorption level by the roots. During recent trials conducted at the University of British Columbia our Dutchmaster research team looked at which things the roots can absorb and translocate easily and efficiently. The results were amazing! What was found was that with the exception of very small molecules, elements and ions, etc. not much else was efficiently absorbed or translocated by the roots. Certainly things like enzymes, complex carbohydrates, proteins etc. were almost always completely blocked from uptake by a unique little barrier inside the root called the Casparian Strip. This strip is designed to prevent unwanted compounds, fungus and bacteria, etc. from entering the plant via the root zone. This protective barrier also prevents a lot of specialised materials from ever entering the root and being translocated to the leaves.

Secondly, what does get absorbed is slowly moved from the roots to the leaves where they can then be used (translocated). This slow trickle feed also allows the plant’s “negative feedback” loops to function very efficiently. This feedback loop is a plants’ way of keeping everything in check. If, for example, a plant requires a particular hormone and you supply it with extra amounts of that hormone, the plant will then reduce its own production of that hormone to keep things in balance. The trick is to overwhelm or flood the plants negative feedback system so positive effects are produced before this feedback loop can compensate.

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Foliar application of the specialised materials, when the correct delivery agent is used, is the only way you can effectively introduce these materials in such volumes and with such speed that the plants negative feedback system is temporarily overwhelmed, and our desired growth or developmental patterns can be temporarily induced.

So we can see that there are two paths to take when it comes to introducing performance-enhancing materials to our manufacturing centre, the leaves. The first is the long slow and inefficient way, via the roots, and the second is the very fast efficient way, with one very important proviso (and one you must never forget if you are to truly experience the benefits of foliar performance supplementation).

Delivery Agents vs Wetting Agents

For any foliar program to be completely effective you must be able to deliver your specialised materials inside the leaf of your plant. Now this is not as easy as it sounds because you first have to get past the protective waxy layer that surrounds every leaf. Once past this layer you must then get it inside the cells where all the action is taking place. Now this is not as simple as just “madly” spraying your plants with an enhanced solution, as most of what you apply to the leaves will never be absorbed. For many years it was believed that by allowing a solution to remain in contact with the leaf surface for an extended period of time, the effective absorption of that solution would take place through tiny openings in the leafs surface called the stomata.

In my last article we examined how the plant uses the stomata to absorb and exchange gases (CO2, Oxygen) and to regulate water flow (transpiration). Modern research is now showing that only a tiny portion of what you spray can get inside the leaf surface via the stomata. In fact, typically less than 10% of the stomata uptake any solutes1*. This is then further compounded by the fact that even once taken up, most of the supplied material is immobilized on the inner side by ion exchange membranes2*.

This certainly explains the very hit and miss effects of traditional foliar spraying when trying to facilitate enhanced growth patterns or development.

“But I use a wetting agent,” I hear many of you say. This is good in that it will allow the solution to sit evenly on the leaf for an extended period of time, allowing a small amount of absorption but certainly not enough to effectively saturate and overwhelm a plants’ negative feedback system. The only way to effectively deliver large amounts of specialized elements inside the leaves of your plant is to use a very new type of product known as a “Delivery Agent”. The difference between a wetting agent and a delivery agent is very simple and very important. A wetting agent is designed to make water wetter, so that it sits more evenly over the leaf and extends the contact area and time when applied to a leaf. A delivery agent is also designed to do this - but - and it’s a big but - a delivery agent is primarily designed to actively translocate elements from the outside of the leaf surface to the inside, past the ion exchange membranes and directly to the cells where they are needed. Further, a delivery agent is designed to do this independently of the stomatal opening in the leaves. What you have with a specialized delivery agent is a unique opportunity to profoundly affect the development and growth patterns of your plant. This type of technology is very new but freely available in many hydroponic stores. Make sure you ask for a delivery agent and not a wetting agent if you want to be able to maximize the results from a specialised foliar spraying program.

Figure 2 demonstrates the dramatic difference that using a delivery agent can make to the uptake efficiency of foliar applied nutritional supplements. The pictures you are looking at were conducted recently at the University of British Columbia’s Bio Imaging Centre by our chief research officer. They clearly show that the most effective way to saturate the cells of a leaf is through the use of a delivery agent. A specialised and very small sized dye was used to track movement into the leaf. If you look at the control (no dye) you can see the inside of the leaf section is red. This is because chlorophyll fluoresces red when viewed under a fluorescent microscope. The dye we are tracking is green, so the more green on the inside of the leaf the greater the uptake. You can see that on the leaves treated with the dye only, as well as on the leaves treated with the dye plus a wetting agent - is stuck mainly on the outside surface of the leaf whereas the leaf treated with the delivery agent plus dye is fully saturated.

Well, we certainly have been exposed to a lot of new material and concepts in this article, so let’s quickly recap what we have discovered. We have seen that most of what happens to control the growth and development of a plant takes place inside the leaves. We have learned that you can alter the output of the leaves in a beneficial way through the use of specialised foliar supplements. Most importantly we learned that this type of foliar enhancement is now a reality thanks to research and technology.

References

1*.Journal of experimental Botany.

Quantification of stomatal uptake of ionic solutes using a new model system

Thomas Eichert and Jürgen Burkhardt1

2*. Journal of experimental Botany.

Quantification of stomatal uptake of ionic solutes using a new model system

Thomas Eichert and Jürgen B
 
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so youd recommend folitech Fuzzy&Sauce BBG ?
,i got the veg and flower but no penetrator only wetting agent and i never used it
ive also found the max veg works really really well, so should i be using the folitech as well, only thing i aint got is superbud and its banned in uk now


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hazyfontazy- From me to you all fo DM stuff rocks... Even there Nutes.. But the Addtives are the best hands down..Go get the other Max Flower & Penetrator... The Max is perfect for any nutes ... You can add to any oter kinds of nutes and it will still do it thing with no harm ... It will make your leaves wax looking when you start spraying Folitech... The penetrator should be add at 60ml a Liter.. Do to some PH.D's studys... It will let you spray anything on your plants.. I have been spraying AN CarboLoad once a week with it and have seen new Wonders... Oh.. And the Silica from Rare Earth go right in to the plants to... Since you don't have,... Make the Foilitech at 20ml a liter instead of 60ml and Spray twice a day.. Trust me... Do on one for a side by side .. And you will see untill you can get penetrator.. Then you can go back to ever 3 days.... See I have 4 main sprays... and they don't let me down....

1-F Veg :canabis:
2-F Flower :canabis:
3- Rare Earth :canabis:
4- Carbo Load-mixed with Floarlious Grow for Grow & Bloom for Bloom :joint:


And Once every 2 weeks
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There alot of Subs for SuperBud... -The Phospherload

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This product is virtually identical to SuperBud by Dutch Master.

Key Benefits:

Up to 30% Yield Increase

Halts Vertical Growth

Significantly Faster Flowering Response

Heavier, Tighter Flower Density

Fastest/Strongest Flowering Response Possible

Phosphoload is the most innovative & powerful flowering additive to hit the market since SuperBud!

Phosphoload utilizes a new technology which extracts unique isolates from coal derived humates. These Humatic Isolates are powerful rare earth elements that when combined with Phospholipid Technology, unlocks the floodgates for a fast & powerful flowering response.

The Phospholipid Technology then incenses or switches the flowering receptor sites on, which then allows these Humatic Isolates to exert their powerful flowering effect.

Plants flowered with Phosphoload stop their upward growth almost immediately & start to form numerous, tight & heavy clusters of flowers that continue for many weeks.

Growers who use Phosphoload can expect larger heavier yields of flowers with an average yield increase of 25 to 30%.

Technical Notes:

DO NOT USE WITH PEROXIDE-BASED PRODUCTS (such as Oxy Blast!). Recommended Use: First 3 weeks of flowering (growers have used in flowering weeks 4-6 with good results, but not recommended) for 9 to 14 days max. Basically, let the plants get as tall as you want them to be, then apply Phosphoload. Plants will not grow any taller after first application, and begin to flower profusely. More than 2 doses (1 dose per week with every reservoir change) will damage or KILL plants.

As Phosphoload is an extremely sophisticated & technically advanced product, it is important to follow the instructions very closely. Never use more than the recommended amount of Phosphoload & never use Phosphoload longer than the recommended time duration. Growers who are using coco coir, Sunshine Mix or Pro Mix as their growing medium should use 3ml of Phosphoload per quart of nutrient solution for a minimum of 9 days and a maximum of 14 days. During this time, flush plants with plain water 2 times (once in the middle and once at the end). When used as per the directions, Phosphoload will reward you with the most dramatic display of power flowering you have ever seen all with a sizable increase in yield of 25 to 30% as reported by numerous growers.

Partners:

Phosphoload can be used with all nutrition programs. It can be used in conjunction with any other enhancers & nutrients you are currently using on your plants.



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Folitech makes Max work at full power.... Max make Folitech give your plant bluges under where the stem & bud meet


After extensive testing by both BGH and a select group consisting of some of our most experienced customers, we have to say that this is an amazing product. Used in conjunction with Dutch Master Penetrator, you will see an amazing difference in your plants.

Folitech Grow & Flower are 2 unique foliar sprays designed to enhance your plants ability to support & produce a larger number of flowers. Folitech is a 2 stage product with vegetative & flowering formulations which are designed to be used at the appropriate stage of the plants development. The underlying technology in both Folitech formulations is the unique Phospholipid technology developed by Dutch Masters renowned R&D team. These unique, organic & totally safe compounds are designed to enhance nutrient sensitivity & ultilization which can help the way a plant grows or develops. These Phospholipids are high energy lipid (oil or fat) compounds that can help increase a plants overall energy output & help with the utilization of mineral elements by the plant which can play a role in increasing the development or growth of the plant during the vegetative & flowering process.

Folitech Vegetative is formulated to increase nutrient utilization of those mineral elements that are beneficial to plant vegetative growth & branching patterns. The result is a quicker growing plant with more complex branching & tighter internodal spaces. For even more accentuated results use in conjunction with Dutch Master Max Vegetative Boost which supplies extra amounts of specialised nutrition & Humatic Isolates.

Folitech Flowering is formulated to increase the utilization of those mineral elements that can help aid the flowering process, particularly phosphorous. Larger flowers with increased development are possible when using this product. Folitech Flowering is designed to help gain the most from phosphorus boosters such as Canna PK 13-14, Bloom Blaster and Dutch Master Potash Plus.

Product: _MAX
R&D:
Max is a unique 2 stage booster designed to give you MAX results from your indoor hydroponic plants. Max’s performance is based on Humatic Isolate technology, a revolutionary & natural way to aid plant performance.
Humatic Isolates are a large group of rare earth elements that when combined with phospholipid, select amino acids & minerals,help key areas of plant growth & development. The Humatic Isolates used in Max, are designed to aid nutrient uptake of selected elements that are known to benefit the vegetative & flowering stages of plant growth. These Humatic Isolates also provide with amino acids, special “nutrient reservoirs”, which the plant can draw from in times of need. Max also contains a basic enhancement suite of primary elements to allow for the increased uptake of those elements so as to allow your nutrient supply to remain in a balanced state.
MAX Vegetative Boost: Is designed to aid uptake of those elements which are beneficial for rapid sustained vegetative growth. The specialised Humatic Isolates in Max Vegetative Boost also help provide nutrient reservoirs which can provide the sustained nutrition for accelerated growth. This is particularly beneficial when using a foliar spraying regime as it helps provide the increased nutrition required for increased growth & branching that can often occur through the use of Foliar spraying
MAX Flowering Boost: Is designed to provide the critical nutrition necessary for a good flowering response in particular to aid in full phosphorous utilisation & uptake by the plant. Nutrient reservoirs of rare earth elements can provide your plants with the energy they need to extract the maximum value from the mineral nutrition supplied to them. These nutrient reservoirs also helps delay senescence of the plant thereby helping provide a more sustained flowering response which will allow for larger & more numerous blooms.

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