ALOE VERA

[HarperValley]

I do not think aloe or anything else for that matter is a miracle cure but I am looking for the best way to help combat the stress and residual toxins left from broad mites. Has anyone seen direct relief from said toxins by Foliar or drenching with fresh aloe?

 

[TerraPretaGrown]

Lots of great info on aloe vera and peoples thoughts. Thanks everyone for your input. I have come to understand and use aloe like a sports drink for the plants, i use it 1x a week during flower, between using my aerated tea. Last two weeks ill use a mix aloe vera juice, coconut water and epsom salt, 2-3x week when watering, no aerated teas, and i never "flush" my soil with excessive water. But the last few weeks of only aloe and coconut water allows for a clean uptake of vitamins, the flowers bulk up and firm up, and my flowers burn to a nearly pure white ash. A very smooth smoke.

 

[surfguitar]

Ive been using pureed aloe almost every watering this round and don't think i'd have it any other way

 

[Dakine]

I have access to what I see to be 3 different types of Aloe Vera, possibly even 4 different types.. Literally A 3minute walk to as much Aloe I could use in A lifetime..

Mainly used it for burns/road rash kinda injuries. Does anyone know if different types bring different value/nutritional value for our plants/human consumption?

I never used it in A foliar Spray or even A simple watering until now... USed Aloe in both methods, and im still waiting to see those praying fans everyone talks about lol..

 

[thekidsgotheart]

FOLIAR spray rates?


FEEDING rates?


Hey guys, a lot of info in this thread with different angles and methods. I have 200x Aloe powder and organic coconut powder from Upaya. Just trying to get the tried and true method to foliar and feed. Does anyone have the correct amounts. Thx.

 

[baduy]

High Dakine my favorite all pupose aloe is aloe arborescens. That's the varietal most used in Japan for serious burn victims in intensive cares, some Hiroshima survivors using a recipe (A Arborescens whole leaf mixed with honey and a drop of alcool for internal use) also showed spectacular results

 

[Misterreggae]

Hey guys whats about your dosage?

my dosage is 3-5ml (100% Aloe Juice) / Liter

Use it especially in the last weeks but also during the whole grow...

 

[the_niño]

love just using a fresh aloe filet thrown in the vitamix.... plants love it

 

[Nughugger]

Aloe is safe and effective I boil fresh aloe with silver dollar eucyliptus leaves a spoonful of sesame oil and a drop of dawn boil about 20 min on high pour through a dish cloth let cool and while about 80 degrees American I use a cap full of peroxide. This is the only spray I use never a insect never mold beautiful results and non damaging to your girls

 

[Arnold.]

I would not recommend using aloa every watering. It is not because something is good, you should always have more of it.

It is said to outbalance the jar/sar responses.

http://themodern.farm/musings-on-sar-jar/

 

[CannaRed]

GREAT LINK!

 

[h.h.]

 

[amanda88]

i use aloe as a rooting hormone mixed with manuka honey for cloning outdoors. (shady spot) / or greenho
foiler spray every 3rd day (depending on conditions)
with a organic kelp and seaweed mix for rapid rooting

ALOE FTW !

was listening to a great pot cast last night and one of the dudes from brothers grim mentioned the salicylic acid
about how the plants put it out as a defence i had no idea was a real eye opener.

I was for years a great follower of disprin- Asprin etc .. salicylic acid
and have applied it many times as a cure-all to my plants only to be told 5? years ago, that it has be proven wrong, no good at all...
I still use Aleo Vera as a general tonic for hot weather, sick plants and as a surfactant in germing..all work well

 

[Fred Sanford]

I was for years a great follower of disprin- Asprin etc .. salicylic acid
and have applied it many times as a cure-all to my plants only to be told 5? years ago, that it has be proven wrong, no good at all...
I still use Aleo Vera as a general tonic for hot weather, sick plants and as a surfactant in germing..all work well

Hi Amanda would you please cite the source of your information? I'm interested as I use aloe weekly. Thanks.

 

[wutwut]

everytime i overwater my aloe vera's. now i understand that soil which i use is probably wrong for them. next time i try to mix it with sand.

 

[TnTLabs]

I was for years a great follower of disprin- Asprin etc .. salicylic acid
and have applied it many times as a cure-all to my plants only to be told 5? years ago, that it has be proven wrong, no good at all...
I still use Aleo Vera as a general tonic for hot weather, sick plants and as a surfactant in germing..all work well

yeah.. id like to read that info too please

 

[h.h.]

everytime i overwater my aloe vera's. now i understand that soil which i use is probably wrong for them. next time i try to mix it with sand.

Replant. It won’t hurt them at all.
I have them in very sandy loam, outside, neglected, with triple digit summer temperatures. Rain water only in a place where it doesn’t rain.
See previous post.

 

[TnTLabs]

hh.... you have an idea if there are seeds in those flowers??

 

[h.h.]

They will seed. I don’t think they grow true if at all. Aloe Vera has been cloned throughout history. I don’t think you’ll find it in nature.


Edit; https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/houseplants/aloe-vera/growing-aloe-seeds.htm

 

[palmero]

My simple foliar feed from wild aloe vera




from
https://www.nation.co.ke/business/s...-aloe-vera/2301238-4201552-wgtbvez/index.html


Kap’ngetich is a little known village in Mosop, Nandi County, with many residents engaging in subsistence farming.
Mark Kipchumba is one of those growing maize, beans and vegetables, but he is doing more.

We find him busy adjusting a machine fixed on a wooden table in his homestead. Next to it is a bucket.
He spent Sh1,200 to purchase the machine, a meat mincer, before he later turned it into a cold presser which he uses to make a foliar feed from wild plants, mainly aloe vera.

He picks the plants from the field, then squeezes them using the cold pressing machine and puts in a fermentation container together with orange or lemon peelings where they stay for week.

The lemon or orange peels help to eradicate odour from the fermenting aloe vera. After a week, he sieves and places it in bottles.

“I started making the foliar fertiliser in 2009 after I could not afford the inorganic ones. So I decided to formulate my own fertiliser,” recounts Kipchumba, noting he started the process out of curiosity.

His desire to know more took him to Masinde Muliro University library where he learnt alot about aloe vera.

After coming up with the fertiliser, he took a sample to Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation in Kakamega and at the Kitale-based Kephis for testing.

The results showed his foliar had several minerals required by plants. The copy from Kephis indicates that the fertiliser has
Nitrogen (7.72), phosphorous (0.11), potassium (0.15), Calcium (0.05), Manganese (498.51), Iron (831.92), Zinc (454.51), Copper (1132.79), Magnesium (0.001) and a pH of (10.19).

He uses half a kilo of aloe vera plants to produce five litres of the foliar.

Two-and-a-half litres of the foliar is mixed with 20 litres of water for a single spray that covers an acre.

So far, he says about 50 farmers mostly in his neighbourhood have been able to use the bio-fertiliser.
“I sell a litre at Sh200 which is cheaper compared to the inorganic products,” he says.
Nehemiah Koech, a farmer at Mutwet in Chesumei, who has used the foliar feed, says at first he was a little sceptical
“I applied some of it on my calliandra fodder and saw good improvement in terms of foliage. I then sprayed it on my maize.”

The farmer says he first planted the maize using NPK23:23 fertiliser but didn’t top dress with CAN, instead he applied the foliar feed dubbed Auto-booster.

Normally, Koech harvests some 20 bags per acre from his farm but this time round he harvested over 30.
Pauline Koiser, a crop officer in Uasin Gishu County, says aloe vera plant is medicinal and contains unique properties that protects crops from fungal attack.



Any idea about the production process?
How it comes to a PH of 10.2 if he is fermenting...


PEACE