How to Make Your Own Sulphur/Potash/Calcium
Fertilizer Out of Chamomile
- Chamomile contains sources of calcium, potash and sulphur
- Pour 2-4 cups of clean, chlorine-free/chloramine-free boiling water over ¼ cup chamomile blossoms
- Let steep until cool, (I like to pull flowers at 3 minute mark) strain and place in spray bottle
- Use when cool and dark if possible
- foliar solution will keep for about 1 week
- Apply once or twice in the first 10 days of flower
How to Make Your Own Sulphur/Magnesium
Foliar Out of Epsom Salts
- Personally I like to use only 1/8 to 1/4 tsp per Litre and
- just mist them gently twice in the 1st 2-weeks when fruits just first start to set.
In plants,
magnesium helps with
- chlorophyll production,
- mineral absorption,
- fruit development,
- strengthening cell walls,
- and improving uptake of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur.
Sulfur helps
- produce vitamins,
- amino acids, and
- enzymes.
Calcium, hugely affected by transpiration rates,
- regulates root density, length,
- plus hormones that affect growth,
- combat thermal stress,
- help with cell division,
- cell wall strength, and
- numerous other micro-processes.
Together, they bless the plant proper.
Calcium and potassium compete with magnesium for uptake by plant roots, and magnesium often loses. Sometimes, a soil test will show adequate magnesium levels in soil, but a plant grown in that soil may still be deficient because of that competition. So always good to do a couple gentle mg foliars right as flowers set. I recommend 1/2 tsp per gallon only not a full TBSP. Here, plants are so sticky, so greasy, they glue your fingers shut and then leave a terpy grease once you break apart. It's more than enough to ensure the synergy!
Bless your garden, brothas and sistrens..
DonT
reposted from my Rm3 post cause put some work into this one!