Hi, bananaloveski u all,
I was wondering; anybody has experience in using seeweed solution, on bananabreeding?
It's been said that it's the richest mineral, hormonal feeding you can give to a plant. There is a small amount of NPK(mostly P) but its extremely diverse amount of minerals(mostly Fe, Zn) and natural growth hormoons, makes a plant grow stronger, faster, and whithout any difficiencies. I've read once that a minor mineral difficiencie of one kind, is sometimes not seen, but the influence on growth, health, hardyness, flowerproduce and fruitgrowth is surely there.
I personally, have good experience on citrus with this mineral foliar spray. This plant shows clearly and fast, a mineral difficiency, in the shapes and patterns on the leaves. Citrus is difficult because they have a hungry appetite for Fe, Zn, Mn, Mg. Pro's know these patterns and spray the citrus with zn-mn sulphate.
On citrus i see deffinately the difference when using seaweedfoliar on them. Greener, bigger leaeves, more gloss on the leaves, more flowerproduce, and now, good ripening of the many fruits. It's all in there!
This year i'm surely going to use the seawead foliar on some of my bananas, to see if there's any difference. On citrus i spray it 4-6 times a growing season. The night temperatures have to be warm for good results, there will be no foliar uptake when the nights are cold, cool.
Spraying the plant on full moon also has a positive impact on the uptake of the leaves, i read.
If it rains off within tree days, then spray it again. In the evening, when it's still light, is the best period.
Anyone of you bananalovers cares to join in on a foliarspray-experiment, shearing data on previous experiences?
Gunther, Brussels