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I'm considering to guide my plants to high yields and better looks by using herb teas, which I would create by solving herbs in a bucket of cold water for a few days. For example:
- Tea from plant A contains much nitrogen, medium phosporus, low potas
- Tea from plant B contains low nitrogen, low phosporus, high potas
- Tea from plant C contains medium nitrogen, medium phosporus, medium potas and high magnesium
- My plant in full growth demands much Nitrogen, so I give it a tea from plant A
- My plants are sensitive for aphids and deseases, so it should get more potas; I give it a tea from plant B
- Most probably that plant is suffering from low consentrations of Magnesium, so I need to give some tea from plant C
- That plant stopped growing so I must not add tea from plant A but I should give it some from plant B because it just started flowering now
- etc
But now the problem is that I don't know which plants produce which elements in chich quantities. I only know a few examples like nettles contain much nitrogen and borage contains much silicium.
Does anybody knows if there's some information on internet where I can lookup a detailled list of plants and the compositions of their extrakts or teas?
Much thanks in advance,
Hendrik
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