Potassium Silicate

[kingzt]

Hey everyone is there a way to make potassium silicate more readily available for the plant? From what I know it takes some more time for better absorption than other silica products. Is there some thing that can speed it up or perhaps a foliar application. Any insight is greatly appreciated

 

[effexxess]

Maybe this?

 

[effexxess]

You can also add sh*t to your substrate.

Here's a good paper on that:
Bioavailable Silicon: Release Rate from Additives & Substrates

Edit. Another really good study:
Approaches to Supplementing Silicon in Soilless Media and the Value of Silicon in the Mitigation of Drought Stress

 

[Jjgrow420]

Use products with monosilicic acid instead of potassium silicate
Ps takes weeks if not months to become available to the plant, even then it's only a small % of the amount you've added in.

 

[effexxess]

Use products with monosilicic acid instead of potassium silicate

Great to learn about, thanks for sharing! I don't see many products, just Grow Genius.

 

[go go kid]

if you can get some diatomatious earth, its a perfect sourse of silica, being predominatly silica

 

[Jjgrow420]

if you can get some diatomatious earth, its a perfect sourse of silica, being predominatly silica

You're right but again it's something that takes a long time to break down. You need to look at what form the silica is in. If it's a silicate it's non plant available and needs the use of enzymes and bacteria to break it down into a plant available form ; monosilicic acid