Would adding soap to maintenance spray make it better absorbed by plants given its wetting properties or would the calcium in the water make it “hard” and render it useless?
- taliiz asked 1 month ago
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Soap’s ability to sud (or act as a surfactant) is significantly cut by vinegar, and I find there are diminishing returns of using soap in the Maintenance Formula. A light mist spray at the proper amount of 25 gal/acre will be absorbed quite well by the plants, and soap will only really benefit if you are over-spraying to wet instead of mist the plant’s surface.
In my practice it seems superfluous and an extraneous cost to use the soap for anything besides pest control. I think a better investment is getting the proper spraying equipment to put out the proper doses and making that job as easy as possible to do more frequently than trying to add more to the formulations.
- drake answered 1 month ago
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