Re: Alfalfa pellets & Alfalfa tea
Alfalfa is great but how about the standard fertilizers. Growth stimulates
/hormones are great but do they really work? Is there someone out there
how has real numbers on growth and weight gain? How many consistent heavy
hitters are using stimulates/ kelp products? Do plants know the difference
between natural or artificial fertilizers. Is the main concern having
enough available nutrients for all the plant needs during the big wait gain
periods. We are using huge amounts of kelp, high potassium fertilizers,
hormones, are they working?
Jon
At 09:10 PM 8/20/01 -0700, you wrote:
>This past weekend the Home & Garden section
>of our local newspaper had an article written
>by a local Master Gardener (who is not a
>pumpkin grower). Her article was entitled
>"A Recipe For Success: Serve Your Garden
>Some Alfalfa Tea"
>She explains that there is a hormone in
>alfalfa (triacontanol) that stimulaes root growth.
>A search of the Mallorn archives shows that
>this was briefly discussed a year or so ago.
>
>Her article explains that she had good results
>using the pellets as a side dressing around her
>plants so she decided to go one step further
>and make some "alfalfa compost tea".
>The ingredients........a handful of alfalfa pellets,
>worm compost, a little basic plant food and
>some seaweed. The article did not list exact
>quantities. She added all this to a 5 gallon
>bucket of water.
>She stirred this mixture daily and watched it
>begin to bubble as the microbiotic action began.
>After 10 days she mixed one cup of tea with
>2 gallons of water and used it on her plants.
>Again she had very good results.
>She experimented with 2 plots of peppers.
>The ones that recieved the alfalfa definitely
>had "better color, more growth and had
>earlier blooms".
>
>How many list growers are using alfalfa pellets
>or tea this year ??
>Results ??
>
>George Webster
>Napa, Ca
>
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