Foliar Spray - Seaweed & Fish Fertilizer (RESULTS)
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Conducted a garden foliar feeding experiment with Tamarillo plants, otherwise known as the Tomato Tree, from Ecuador. Foliar spay ingredients that were used were Kelp Extract, Seaweed Fertilizer and Alaska Fish Fertilizer.
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The results are amazing. I didn’t know you can mix seaweed and fish for better results. The foliage feed is impressive. I’ll be spraying my tomatoes!
Wow! The results are amazing. Thanks for sharing your experiment ☺️
You’re welcome
This video is amazing should have millions of views. Answered questions I had so bad, thank you!’
Thank you for your comment!!
Thank you for making this video. Great for a beginner gardener like me.
You’re very welcome! It’s one of my older videos but I’m glad it’s helped many
Wow. This knowledge is precious. I’ll try this on my melon and tomatoes
I hope it works really well for you as it did I and I continue to do these methods today
With the shortages and price of fertilizer causing farmers a headache, I would think that foliar feeding their crops with the fish emulsion/seaweed emulsion would produce wonderful crops at a fraction of the cost of fertilizer. Even if they used commercial fertilizer, it would probably be a tiny amount of cost as foliar feeds are so very diluted. Not only that, but sources for organic foliar fertilizers open up many new possibilities in farming techniques.
Interesting
I am not a farmer, but I am an extensive gardener and homesteader. I think that keeping up a foliar feeding routine would be more strenuous than the common fertilizer. It is probably not feasible for an effective farming schedule, including the allocation of labor.
This is my thought on the application of foliar feeding on a mass production scale farm.
Omg Lynn we watch all the same channels! 😂❤❤
Protein nitrogen and kelp has had the most explosive growth together ive ever used. Kelp4less has the best organic fertilizers out there imo.
I foliar feed all my chilli plants which are in pots , its so more economical and the plants just love it. Thanks for sharing your experiment .
You’re welcome
Awesome video &. Outstanding results. !
thank you again
I'll be doing that now.I have the gaia kelp and alaska fish fertilizer, makes sense. Thanks
Thank you, the foliage feed is impressive very good video
would like to see more comaprison videos on soil mixed like coco , peat moss etc on plants like pepper and tomatoes
I subscribed to your channel, I tried this in my farm it really boosted the growth insanely. Most of the yellow leaves turned dark green. To all who will use this technique the right amount needs mixed with water in my case 250ml of fish liquid fertilizer and 100ml of seedweed into a 100liters sprayed once a week as we learned from the channel most important before the sunset so it dries at night so leaves doesn't get exposed to sun light after spray and burn. I may try to increase the concentration just alittle in winter to see if there is a difference or try more intervals. NOTE this concentration ratio depends on seasons and the type of fertilizer. Thanks 🌹
Very happy that it is working for you! That’s true I should’ve told them in the video long ago about the concentration ratio but I was just being truthful what I was using. Thank you for your input I hope many people read your comment
Great job.. and I like this video. Simple, but easy to getbthe poit
Thank you! That is the goal that I try and do
Wow going to get my supplies today!
Yes it’s amazing and the only ones that survived today are the ones that got foliar fed, also fruiting now
Thanks for sharing amigo, the only way to know for sure is to experiment!
No problem, I really like to experiment
I never tried seaweed, but I heard seaweed, sugar and fish fertilizer gets amazing results. Sugar definitely makes the new buds grow quicker, and epsom salt makes some things green up crazy fast. Urine foliar feed (1:20 dilution w/ tap water) is hit and miss. Some things grow fast and others burn.
I'll be living by the beach soon. And I can't wait until I can have all the resources from the ocean. Thanks for sharing! Cool how the difference, gonna spray all mine up :)
That’s awesome! But hopefully you’re not gonna live right on the coast it’s very difficult to garden hopefully you’re inland few miles
@@ZaatarGardens about 1km from a beach. Will start with a raise beds. ;) lots of coconuts and corn growing nearby so that should not that bad. ;)
Awesome findings dude.
Thanks! I love experimenting in the garden!
Good plant feeding video👍
Thank you for the nice comment which unfortunately are rare during these times
Interesting. Good work
Thank you
EXCELLENT! i love your channel!
Thank you so much!!!
Comments like these give me the energy to keep pushing forward!!!!
This is a recent updated video where I continued this experiment while the plants were in the ground.
Foliar Feeding Seaweed & Fish Fertilizer (Update)
czcams.com/video/XySYZuN0HM8/video.html
Awesome. I've been using seaweed and been getting great results. I may in fact now do a foliar spray of seaweed and fish emulsion. And I'll see how I do with that
Seaweed is AWESOME
Yes. High yields
What is the mix your using pls and thx
Great comparison
Thank you so much it was an eye-opener when I did it years ago
Thank you 😊 my husband bought the sprayer for my papaya tree's pots growing in big container pots...watched your video and hoping I can do the same for my papaya fruits...growing on an ocean canal, in Florida...
It’s been such a great journey seeing my garden transform over the years and it was greatly due to this technique
Keep up with these kind of videos Moses, I have seen so much recommendations of products but they never do a test to see if it is that product or something else. I suggested to them to just put that product in one plant and nothing on the other and you can see if it did have an effect. There was a youtuber a long time ago that did comparison testing with different soil and fertilizer but he stopped doing them about a couple of years ago.
great vid thanks
Thanks and You’re welcome
I am in England I grow mainly tropical plants rubber, croton's etc all planted in coir with vermiculite plenty of perlite I feed at every watering with a weak seaweed feed and foliar feed 3 times a week which also increases humidity in my apartment amazing results and with seaweed you can't really overfeed no burn from nitrates in chemical fertilizers.
That’s amazing
it works !
Did you try!?!
I LOVE seeing these experiments.
And I LOVE doing them!
@@ZaatarGardens How often do you use the fish fertilizer for best results? I have only used it once so far and I don't really see too much of a difference. The leaves do look slightly greener on my daylilies but it's still pretty cold here right now(Michigan). My veggie garden can't go out yet.
I use seaweed and fish fertilizer spray on the leaves in the garden once a week (I add a couple of drops of hand soap per gallon of water as well).
And about once every week to about two weeks drenching the soil with solution as well.
It has done wonders in my garden and also including a heavy layer of wood chips as well, as a mulch.
All 3 things are full of minerals.
@@ZaatarGardens Wow, you use the fish fertilizer once a week? Do you do it full strength? I'm just worried about burning my plants. The leaves aren't even close to dark green they are really light green. (I've never fertilized anything before this year). I think I put miracle grow on some things once last year but that's the only time in the last 5 years that I have fertilized. (I don't want to use miracle grow anymore though). I have 2 bottles of fish fertilizer but no seaweed.
I have been looking for wood chips but I can only find dyed wood chips around here.
I typically use one capful per gallon of water.
The dyed woodchips should be OK since the day is typically made from a vegetable source.
If you call your local tree service companies sometimes they will unload their wood chips on your driveway for free.
Another new knowledge about seaweed and fish emulsion at what ratio mix please I definitely try please do reply many thanks
Where is the seaweed/fish emulsion in soil and foliage fed? That would be the biggest surely?
Excellent video and experiment. Well done. Can foliar fertilizer be used on indoor plants, too?
I'm Jason from the PHP. May I ask what is the ratio of fish emulsion and seaweed fertilizer combine in spraying in your demo??
What’s the ratio ? What time of the day do you fertilize? How often /frequency? Thanks
Would love to see you take clones from the same plant and do the same experiment :)
Well weed killers work when they get in contact with the leaves. I would assume the same thing will apply.
Great video!
Amazing the difference when the fish and seaweed are applied.
What ratio did you use when doing the foliar spray?
Thanks in advance!
Here is a very recent updated video continuing this experiment on the same plants after they were planted in the ground
Foliar Feeding Seaweed & Fish Fertilizer (Update)
czcams.com/video/XySYZuN0HM8/video.html
When I put it into a 32 ounce spray bottle I really just put a capful of fish and a capful of seaweed and recently I put one pump of liquid hand soap
Thank you for the kind words by the way
Sorry to sound like a doubter but fish emulsion works by first being broken down by microorganisms in the soil then the convert the fish byproduct into usable and absorbable forms of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. On its own without the micro-organisms the organic fertilizers and not immediately beneficial and do not have the NPK the plant needs. Also the selection of pots have a major impact. Terracotta can incorporate much more oxygen in solid by being porous and quickly drying out wet soil. Always good to learn. I have been picking up college text books on the topic. Learning a lot from when is already known and only college textbooks are a guaranteed cure for insomnia if ever you have a hard time falling asleep. Nice looking plants.
Thanks you
I would’ve totally agreed with you but luckily I have years of experience doing this and doing my own experiments. If I take the same plants which I have done many varieties and pour the ground of the same fertilizer that I spray the leaves of the same variety of plant. The foliar feed plants do much better to the point where the ones that just were fertilized in the ground only even died, so foliar feeding does work but it’s not as efficient as they say it is. Thanks for your feedback
Im just curious,do u think the nano guns used to spray covid disinfectant be used for foliar spraying.the smaller partcle mist should be eaier to be absorbed bybthe stomata plus it would save on fertiliser.any thoughts?
The smaller the particle the better. Help reduce the runoff. But you’re going to probably have to use purely liquid if there’s any little small particles in there it’s going to clog up pretty fast probably.
I stumbled on your wonderful video as I am trying foliar feeding for the first time! Do you feed every week, or every other week? I will also have a drip system going just for water. Thanks from Vancouver Island in Canada.
I do it about 2-3 times a month, at sunset
I love experiments like this. I cant get seaweed from the ocean where I live tho. You think a liquid seaweed or kelp product would work as good? I do alredy use kelp meal in my soil mix and it has done wonders for my plants even tho its like 80 dollars for 20 pounds. Also do you mix the kelp and fish together or feed the separately on different weeks?
Liquid seaweed works just as good probably even better to be honest less mess. I mix them together speeds things up
@@ZaatarGardens Thanks. I found a few products from Neptune's harvest that look really good. They even have a liquid kelp seaweed blend that comes out to like 30-40 cents a gallon. I saw this video of a guy that has used there products compared to other liquid seaweed and it seems to be a good product. Here's the video if you want to check it out czcams.com/video/E_bnOreLozM/video.html
I'm looking into fish hydrolysate also and how it compares to emulation.
@@ZaatarGardens Liquid Kelp is better because it acts like a filter in the ocean. You are going to get way more hormones and minor elements in Kelp over seaweed...
How many times did you foliar spray the plants over the 2 months. And at what intervals approximately.
Thank you for the video
I sprayed I believe 1 to 2 times a week (more often it was once a week). almost always at sunset (maybe one or two days it was in the early morning. Do Not spray mid day. I still spray all my plants till this day
i have been applying citrus nutritional spray to many of my young plants and can see clear improvements with the exception being my rambutan seedlings, they still have inter-vein chlorosis.
Weird thing is after spraying my tiny mango trees that had light green leaves a few weeks later they had deep green splotches all over them. after looking it looks like how the nutrient water beaded up on the leaves.
This summer i intended to start a watering experiment...maybe this spring. I want to find out how river/tap/rain water stack up and find out is there any observable difference.
Ohhhhh water experiment
Good experiment . Thanks for sharing. Would like to see you compare the root systems of the two plants to the right. Suspect the root system of #3 plant is more advanced than #4. No?
You most likely are correct but this experiment was done a long time ago. I didn’t uproot them to see I just uprooted them quickly to plant. I should’ve looked but I would assume yes the root systems should have been bigger to support a bigger plant.
i do just the fish emulsion and its made a bit of a difference. question though can i still spray the plant with veggies growing on it? will the veggies take on the taste of the fish emulsion?
I have never sprayed my fruit/veggies with it, in fear they will taste fishy.
I did research the past hour and could not find anything that states it will change it’s flavor.
Zaatar Gardens i really hope not! been saving every bean i get from my plants for thanksgiving and would hate to serve some fishy beans lol. i believed i sprayed 1 times foliar with it and the other time was just around the base of them
Taste one, if their ready
Thanks bro 👍😊💚
You’re welcome
@@ZaatarGardens can I use the Alaska fish fertilizer formula 5-1-1 for foliar spray?
I have used it many times but I highly diluted it, like a capful per gallon of water
And only spray on sunset
You're awesome 🙂 thank you
You dont mention when is the best time to foliar spray, I have vids some say very early in the morning , some say evening. Would like to know on outside plants when is the best time that stomata pores are open.
My apologies, this was merely an experiment, I should have mentioned when I actually foliar feed, in this experiment I sprayed early morning and in my garden I do early morning and before sunset, alternating week after week.
Stomas are typically open the most once the first rays of sunshine hits the leaves
Bro have you try molasses unsulfured?
Have you tried this experiment more than once? Plants can vary drastically just from genetics even if they’re given the same fertilization. I have around crape myrtles in pots and they vary in growth and all are fed the same. Do you have any problems with animals destroying your plants with fish emulsion on them? I’ve stayed away from it because I’ve heard it can be a problem. I do use seaweed.
Do yo think it would still be effective is only using seed weed foliage and no fish emulsion?
Yes I believe it would still be effective might be not as effective though because fish emulsion is typically 5%
@@ZaatarGardens How much seedweed and fish emulsion do you use per gallon of water?
I use one capful per gallon of each
Can you do a video with Pro Mix root booster please. I liked and subscribed lol
So you don’t mix fish n kelp when doing foliage spray? You do 1 one day the other the next day ? I notice mines turned a little yellow when mixing or maybe it was the cold weather . I also use molasses but I feel mixing all 3 will be too much . 1oz of each into 1 gallon sprayer
I mixed all of them together and now I mix all of them together as well spring the entire garden
Do you use molasses too? What’s your mix ratio for gallon of water?
Once I started mixing Alaska fish and molasses with the kelp I notice some of my leafs turn a little yellow . I’m wondering if this was from transplanting and than adding this or the fish being a little to strong
Yes I use molasses as well, I would say it’s probably an ounce of fish per gallon, 2 tablespoon of seaweed and a tablespoon of molasses (all per gallon)
If you’re putting a very high dilution yeah that could be not a good thing but really fish doesn’t burn I think it says it on the label as well
@@ZaatarGardens I was adding 1 oz of molasses . I’m go with 1 tablespoon .
Good work
@zaatar gardens. been growing peppers since august. however, buds,flowers or even fruits drops off. is seaweed fertilizer would be good to prevent it? hope you could help me.
Yes it will, also might be low in trace minerals (Fish emulsion and seaweed will help) sounds like it is especially low in calcium
@@ZaatarGardens in Philippines, fish emulsion is not easily available. there is no much seller maybe because it is expensive. do you have other alternatives? i got a water soluble nitrogen which npk is 16-0-0 with trace minerals. is it a phosphorus nutrient problem? all of my fertilizers dont have phosphorus or less. :(. im using seaweed which is high in potassium and it includes 10% calcium
Liquid kelp or seaweed is best then.
You can also use blood and bone meal, but use sparingly.
@@ZaatarGardens Thanks! i will take note if it.
You’re welcome, Sorry for late reply
Wait wait what do you mean spray ? Do you spray it on soil or on stem/leafes ???
Foliar spray, sprayed on the leaves
I had to spray my plants with malathion because I got a bag of black kow with a lot of bugs so how long after the malathion should I wait to apply fish spray
Yes I would wait about a week and only spray on sunset this time of year.
@@ZaatarGardens 10-4
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have you tried kelp meal?
Kelp meal was part of one of the ingredients in the organic fertilizer mix I’ve used in the past, but I have not tried it by itself
No mystery here. Fish emulsion much higher in n p k than seaweed/kelp. Always good to mix seaweed with fertilizers. Good to see in any case.
That experiment was fun
That experiment was fun
But isn't seaweed already a fertilizer? What kind of fertilizer do you use it with?
In some locations in my garden, I bury seaweed, in this case it was liquid seaweed/kelp.
@@TheGreenbutsad seaweed provides micronutrients and pgr specifically cytokinin and auxin, but people tend to use it for the cytokinin because plants that grow in an environment lacking of red light produce lots of this pgr. Cytokinin promotes flower, node and fruit growth. This is why cannabis growers tend to love using seaweed.
Were you just spraying the top of the leaves or the bottom as well? That would be an interesting test as well. I just started foliar spraying with fulvic acid, kelp, yucca, and fish fertilizer. I also spray the soil with humic acid and molasses.
Yes, I spray top and bottom on this test and I try to do that for everything in the garden as well.
Would it help with end rot on tomatoes?
I would try espson salt spray,,,,, u can get epson at dollar store - the plain one w no fragrance
Wow, where did my comment go... very unlike me to like/heart a comment and not answer.... Yes, use epsom salt (magnesium sulfate)
How often did you spray?
On this test I believe it was once a week but on average I spray about every 10 to 14 days in my garden. Much has changed in my garden since this video has been uploaded.
Seaweed have trace minerals and help ur microbes colonies to establish and uptake nutrients easier
And I should add that I'm doing a seaweed spray to increase flower production
Working great!?!
No control plant?
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How often did you foliar fed?
2 times a month typically
How often did you foliar feed?
2x to 3x per month
How often should I spray
2-4 times a month
as often as you can, but not everyday cause plant takes 2 to 4 days to fully absorb foliar nutrients, also mind the weather condition.
What are the proportions with water? How often to spray?
It’s very small proportions basically a capful of each into 1 gallon of water (roughly)
@@ZaatarGardens thank you👍
What was the foliar dilution ? How often ?
I have changed it over the years, mix is about capful of fish emulsion and 1-2 capfuls of seaweed extract. I typically do it every 2-3 weeks now, only on sunset.
Zaatar Gardens thank you!
You’re welcome
@@ZaatarGardens how much is 1 cap in ml? Noob gardener here
Approx 5ml
What rate for the foliar?
rate I am assuming the mixture ratio - I mix about 2 capfuls per gallon of water (10 ml per gallon or so)
I used to foliar feed but every time I did it, the plant died. First time I used a mixture of Chelated Iron, seaweed extract, fish emulsion, and a wetting agent. The second time I just used the fish emulsion at a smaller dilution(1tbsp/gal) + humic acid. That killed another of my mangoes so I gave up on it. Someone told me to try just the Chelated Iron only, but I don't think that would make it grow.
How did it die? Leave started curling or just fell off
Correct, Chelated won’t make it grow.
I remember long ago you said your cherimoya grew better when you sprayed it
@@ZaatarGardens , It did and then it stopped and the leaves started to brown and fall off so I pruned it down and repotted it and it grew a bunch without spraying and then it stopped a few months ago. That plant is the hardest to read because it will grow a bunch then stopped and I think that it is just not a good tree potted. How do you feel about using fulvic acid? They say it is a good mechanism to "transport" nutrients when foliar feeding. Like I said Moses, there are just a ton of people making claims left and right, it just gets overwhelming.
@@ZaatarGardens, two of my mangoes did that.
Fulvic acid, a colleague of mine used it as a foliar spray and it did really well for his cherimoya trees.
I do understand what you mean by the overwhelming amount of information and misinformation.
Probably cuz small plants intake more from foliar feeding when they’re smaller
Could be
Micro nutrients only. Not macro NPK
The results
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Would love to see a control group of nothing
In my area anytime I grew one from seed with nothing added the leaves would die back severely or dampening off
no but clearly there's a difference. I don't want a fish odor around because raccoons and cats will come by more often
Yeah, thank goodness for Lulu
I see NOTHING! NOTHING i tell yah
Easy Sgt. Schultz.... hahhaa
whaaattt?? small pot like that cost $25, wow you're really fancy..
This video is really old, I’m not going to rewatch it to find out what I said, don’t know what you are referring to?
Shut up
And one without anything would've been great ..
I got this comment a lot through the years but I should’ve mentioned it in the video when I grew one without anything it would never really even germinate. It would just grow a little leaf and die off. I’m a busy father and I can’t think of everything unfortunately.
@@ZaatarGardens oh no worries and thank your for adding this information.
I'm not familiar with the edit tools of CZcams but maybe it is possible to add a text info(bubble) to this video or a note in the description to not get any more of those kind of comments.
Wish you the best and thank you for your test and sharing your experience:)