Thanks for sharing. I haven't tried boron on new plantings yet, but you have convinced me to try it in our garden. I have had tremendous results with adding boron to my persimmon trees. The amount of fruit produced has greatly increased since we started boron treatments! I treat them when the leaves are just starting to bud in the spring. This year we are going to add a second treatment to a control group about a month before fruit begins to appear. Once our chestnut trees are old enough to produce, I will be treating them with boron, too.
Thank YOU for sharing! I'm glad to hear of your success and would love an update when you add the second treatment to the control group. Thanks for watching!
Borax can be used in the garden, I use it for foliars for wine grapes and to spray on the soil surface as boron is a problem in sandy soils and is necessary for grapes to set fruit.
Gee... If you showed us treated soils at proper boron levels vs. Deficient soil plants... I would share this with everybody.⚡🤔🌀🌀🍀🍻❤ I guess I will have to do my own trials, and do all the showing off for myself.😁 Vey helpful info. Mahalo from Hawaii. (I searched and got this video - after finding out that volcanic soils can have unavailable boron, and often very little, if it dries up.)
It depends on how much area you are applying to. The equivalent rate for 100 square feet from this video is 4.5 g. If you were applying to 100 square feet, add 4.5 g borax to your watering container, fill and mix, then evenly apply the water across the 100 square feet. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
Since we can use borax to kill ants, is there any effect to the beneficial bugs especially the earthworms in the soil or is it such a small amount of borax that it doesn't matter?
Hi @lizomen9719! Similar to plants, soil microorganisms require the element boron, but there is a small window between sufficiency and toxicity. When applying at very low rates, the risk of harming plants and soil microorganisms is minimized. I hope this helps and thank you for watching!
@@SoiLab Thanks. Any estimate on how much my Boron ppm will increase at that suggested application rate? I plan to retest again next year but am curious
@@BrandonCamp-i3v The ppm change will be dependent on several soil-plant factors but should be moving your values in the right direction. Follow up testing will let you evaluate how to adjust rates or the number of applications. Thanks again!
@@RomanMadVenturesTv Very, very little. Assuming you apply that water to an area of 4 square feet under a plant, the equivalent rate to what was shown in this video would be 0.2 grams/bucket if applied to 4 square feet. One teaspoon of borax holds approximately 3 grams. Hope this helps!
Thanks for sharing. I haven't tried boron on new plantings yet, but you have convinced me to try it in our garden.
I have had tremendous results with adding boron to my persimmon trees. The amount of fruit produced has greatly increased since we started boron treatments! I treat them when the leaves are just starting to bud in the spring. This year we are going to add a second treatment to a control group about a month before fruit begins to appear.
Once our chestnut trees are old enough to produce, I will be treating them with boron, too.
Thank YOU for sharing! I'm glad to hear of your success and would love an update when you add the second treatment to the control group. Thanks for watching!
Awesome info. Thank you for the experiment details.
Borax can be used in the garden, I use it for foliars for wine grapes and to spray on the soil surface as boron is a problem in sandy soils and is necessary for grapes to set fruit.
Gee... If you showed us treated soils at proper boron levels
vs. Deficient soil plants... I would share this with everybody.⚡🤔🌀🌀🍀🍻❤
I guess I will have to do my own trials, and do all the showing off for myself.😁
Vey helpful info.
Mahalo from Hawaii.
(I searched and got this video - after finding out that volcanic soils can have unavailable boron, and often very little, if it dries up.)
Thank you for watching and I'm glad you found this helpful! We'll look at incorporating plants in a future video, I appreciate the feedback!
Awesome video, what is the ratio of borax to water if u want to mix it in sprayer?
It depends on how much area you are applying to. The equivalent rate for 100 square feet from this video is 4.5 g. If you were applying to 100 square feet, add 4.5 g borax to your watering container, fill and mix, then evenly apply the water across the 100 square feet. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
Nice video, i think 1 tea spoon full is 5 mg and 1 table spoon full is 10 mg. Love to see your quality effort on zn, iron, mg, k etc. thanks
Thank you! Here's one on zinc that you may enjoy: th-cam.com/video/OA1bIDU_-4w/w-d-xo.html
Matt, I would lo see an exoeriment on how applying Boric Acd/Borax affects flowering. Thank you.
Would love to see a test on fulvic acid. On tomato plants. Or a test on calcium silicate, wollastonite.
Good demo
Since we can use borax to kill ants, is there any effect to the beneficial bugs especially the earthworms in the soil or is it such a small amount of borax that it doesn't matter?
Hi @lizomen9719! Similar to plants, soil microorganisms require the element boron, but there is a small window between sufficiency and toxicity. When applying at very low rates, the risk of harming plants and soil microorganisms is minimized. I hope this helps and thank you for watching!
Why did you not show the plant in the treatments?
maybe it was a soil only test.
My soil test from you guys said my Boron was at 0.07. How many grams of Borax should I use for 100 sf of raised bed?
The equivalent rate of Borax from this video for 100 s.f. is 4.5 g. I always prefer to mix with water and soil apply. Thanks for watching!
@@SoiLab Thanks. Any estimate on how much my Boron ppm will increase at that suggested application rate? I plan to retest again next year but am curious
@@BrandonCamp-i3v The ppm change will be dependent on several soil-plant factors but should be moving your values in the right direction. Follow up testing will let you evaluate how to adjust rates or the number of applications. Thanks again!
So..
How much borax per bucket of water?
How many square feet is the area that you are planning to apply it to?
@@SoiLab just under the plant watering
@@RomanMadVenturesTv Very, very little. Assuming you apply that water to an area of 4 square feet under a plant, the equivalent rate to what was shown in this video would be 0.2 grams/bucket if applied to 4 square feet. One teaspoon of borax holds approximately 3 grams. Hope this helps!