Seaweed; Nature's Hydroponic Miracle

Seaweed is an absolute gardening marvel loaded with many major plant nutrients and over 60 trace nutrients required by plants. And it's not really a plant, itself, it's more closely related to algae but when used dry or fresh it can really give your plants a huge boost.

And there is no advantage over using a liquid extract over a dried mixture besides the fact that the liquid will mix easier.

Traditionally it is used as an organic hydroponics fertilizer in conjunction with fish emulsion and possibly bone meal or blood meal but can also be added to the nutrient water of a conventional hydroponics garden as a supplement.

In fact I would recommend it. It can be bought as an extract and, in full strength, is added to nutrient water at the rate of 1 to 1.5 teaspoons per gallon.

As a supplement in a conventional hydroponics system using a processed hydroponics fertilizer I would add no more than 2 teaspoons per 8 gallons of water.

In addition to it's nutrient value, it will also encourage the growth of bacteria around plant roots due to it's organic nature. Remember that bacteria is 'good' in that it aids much of the plant's basic processing as well as giving some increased disease resistance.

And if you regularly flush your system with plain water every 2 weeks or so bacteria will never be a problem. So I encourage you to try out some seaweed as a supplement - you may be pleasantly surprised at the results...

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