Kelpak again

[Stone]

I just purchased 5lt of kelpak.
No doubt they have been answered elswere but A few questions.
How long is this material stable for?
Should it be stored in the fridge?
What is the best dilution for paphs/orchids? ml per Litre?
And any other information you would care to add:drool:
(eg) Will it make me feel warmer if I drink it......Its $#$@*&ing FREEZING!!!

 

[ALToronto]

I keep it in the fridge and shake the bottle a bit every time I use it. Apparently it has preservatives to give it a one year shelf life at room temperature, but why risk it?

I have a 1 L bottle with a 7.5 ml cap, so 1 capful goes into 2 L of water, once every two weeks.

 

[consettbay2003]

Personally I think 7.5ml in 2 litres might be a tad too strong. That's approximately 1 TBS/ gal. The manufacturer recommends no more frequently than once every two to three weeks so I stretch it to once a month to be safe and use 1 tsp. (5ml.)/gal. I make sure to foliar feed with it at the same time.

I store mine in the fridge and believe the shelf life is much more than one year.

I recall Rick uses 1/4 tsp. (1.25ml.)/gal. once a week when he fertilizes.

 

[NYEric]

What is Kelpak?! What is "freezing" in your part of the world?

 

[Trithor]

Anything below normal body temperature is considered cold, anything below 20 Celsius is of course 'freezing' even though water freezes at 0 Celsius, no self respecting colonial considers him or herself to be water!

 

[NYEric]

Funny, when here people start wearing short sleeves or sleeveless when it gets above 50F.

 

[Trithor]

You people dare to go sleeveless?!

 

[NYEric]

Yes, there are very few poisonous animals in NYC. Even West Nile disease is down!!

 

[Ray]

It does not have to be refrigerated. Cool and dark is sufficient

"At least 2 years" is the quoted shelf life.

I use the stuff at 256:1 about monthly.


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[Stone]

It does not have to be refrigerated. Cool and dark is sufficient

"At least 2 years" is the quoted shelf life.

I use the stuff at 256:1 about monthly.


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Thanks ray but wouldn't 257:1 be better

 

[Stone]

What is "freezing" in your part of the world?

Anything under 14C (57.2F) and it was 10 yesterday.... TEN I TELL YA!

 

[Bjorn]

Poor guy! Here it was down to 4.4 last night and this is SUMMER!:rollhappy:

 

[naoki]

Personally I think 7.5ml in 2 litres might be a tad too strong. That's approximately 1 TBS/ gal. The manufacturer recommends no more frequently than once every two to three weeks so I stretch it to once a month to be safe and use 1 tsp. (5ml.)/gal. I make sure to foliar feed with it at the same time.

I store mine in the fridge and believe the shelf life is much more than one year.

I recall Rick uses 1/4 tsp. (1.25ml.)/gal. once a week when he fertilizes.

I'm just curious, why do you want to foliar feed KelpMax? Both auxin and cytokinin "generally" have different effects on shoot vs root tissue systems. For example, auxin promotes cell elongation in shoot, but suppress elongation in root during the gravitropism. Or auxin promotes formation of lateral roots, but prevent shoot branching (apical dominance). With regard to the branching, the effects of cytokinin is the opposite of auxin. I'm not sure how this applies to sympodium monocots, but I have always thought that I need to apply KelpMax to the roots.

 

[Secundino]

:rollhappy::rollhappy: Just 14ºC last night at the place where all swedish tourist come to see the sun and the beach, rain during the night and just one cloud outside - no sun at all. The paphs are defenitly growing slow this 'summer'!
And yes, I've no Kelpak over here but the algae-fertilizers I always apply at the substrate/roots.

 

[Ray]

Thanks ray but wouldn't 257:1 be better

256 is just convenient -a tablespoon per gallon.

To Naoki's question about foliar versus root application - my own experience is dousing the daylights out of the entire plant, so I cannot say if it is absorbed through the leaves in the first place. I also don't know if such hormone treatments are a "whole body" thing, or if they only affect the point of application.

I can say that the application of the auxins (Kelpak/KelpMax is roughly 350:1 auxin to cytokinin), the first reaction is that of significant root tip growth, and as they do, they natually emit cytokinis that lead to cell elongation and growth.

I have focused on the chemical as a root growth stimulant, but I suppose, with proper study, it could be a flower size/conformation factor, as well. The US importer owns a winery, and he uses the stuff on the grape vines immediately after fruit-set. It causes the elongation of the rachis, allowing fruit development without interference from adjacent grapes, and creates more room for penetration of fungicides. He, therefore, gets much better yields of better fruit.

 

[eggshells]

Poor guy! Here it was down to 4.4 last night and this is SUMMER!:rollhappy:

Yeah these guys are spoiled! We get -45c here in the middle of winter. Yes that is not a typo. We go to our freezer to warm up.

 

[NYEric]

If you didn't live in SK you could at least go snowboarding!

 

[eggshells]

If you didn't live in SK you could at least go snowboarding!

I still do we have a small hill here but we usually go to the rockies to do that.

 

[NYEric]

I still do we have a small hill here but we usually go to the rockies to do that.

I keep thinking SK = long flat stretches of wheat! oke:

 

[eggshells]

I keep thinking SK = long flat stretches of wheat! oke:

North Saskatchewan is beautiful. Not like the prairies at all.

I keep my seaweed in the fridge.