Folial Feeding ?

From: "hanson, skip" <hanson_skip at emc.com> on 2004.03.01 at 18:40:58(11204) All, Hello. I have a small greenhouse FULL of aroids. Being in N. California it is not very humid. I recently bought a small humidifier to make my plants happier. +More Has there been any research done on foliage feeding and aroids ? I mean with leaf sizes that BIG it makes sense [:). I want to try a very diluted liquid fertilizer in the humidifier but I am not daring enough to just try it. I wonder if anyone has tried this ? If so, what were the results etc. ? Thanks, Skip

From: Don Martinson <llmen at wi.rr.com> on 2004.03.01 at 19:49:43(11205) I want to try a very diluted liquid fertilizer in the humidifier but I am not daring enough to just try it. I wonder if anyone has tried this ? If so, what were the results etc. ? Thanks, Skip I would be very reluctant to try this. Unless your humidifier is of the atomizer type (actually disperser droplets of water into the air) you will never get any fertilizer into the air at all (e.g. evaporative or wick-type humidifiers). Even with the atomizer type, any fertilizer that does become airborne may well end up on more than just your plants (e.g your lungs). Best to use a sprayer of some type with which you can directly spray the foliage. -- Don Martinson +More Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mailto:llmen@wi.rr.com

From: "BambooChik" <bamboochik at earthlink.net> on 2004.03.01 at 21:57:28(11207) This would not be very healthy for you to breathe in. Why not just make up the dilute solution in a spray bottle or small garden sprayer if you have too many plants to comfortably hand spray, and spray the leaves once every couple of weeks? It could also wreck a humidifier to put anything but water into it...b.f.n...deb/AL +More > [Original Message] > From: hanson, skip > To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu > Date: 3/1/2004 1:03:55 PM > Subject: [aroid-l] Folial Feeding ? > > All, > Hello. I have a small greenhouse FULL of aroids. Being in N. California > it > is not very humid. I recently bought a small humidifier to make my plants > happier. > > Has there been any research done on foliage feeding and aroids ? I mean > with > leaf sizes that BIG it makes sense [:). I want to try a very diluted > liquid > fertilizer in the humidifier but I am not daring enough to just try it. I > wonder if anyone has tried this ? If so, what were the results etc. ? > > Thanks, > Skip

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