AMINO ACIDS
Action on the Stomata
ino acids are
completely
water soluble
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so they can be
easily incorporated into your
garden in many ways, through
many different systems.
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Beyond external factors such as light,
humidity and temperature, the stomata
of the plant open and close with the
help of internal factors including, you
guessed it, amino acids. This opening
and closing helps control the moisture
balance within the plant, but maybe
most importantly, it also helps with
the facilitation of gasses like carbon
dioxide, which is required for extreme
continuous growth.
Pollination and Fruit Formation
Amino acids help with the fertility
of pollen and thus are essential for
pollination. They increase pollen
germination and the length of the
pollinic tube, which improves fruit set,
strengthens cell walls for longer shelf
life and helps improve the ripening
stage of fruits, benefiting flavor and
terpene production.
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The best application rates/
methods of aminos are going to be
debated for many years to come,
but I have personally observed
a wide range of benefits from
my own testing of more than 30
different species of fruiting and
flowering plants including bananas,
passion fruit, dragon fruit, citrus,
carrots, beans, peas, celery and
others in my test greenhouse
with various concentrations and
intervals of applications.
My research has concluded that
for the best results, applications
of amino acids should be done
every one to three weeks in the
soil, and applied to the foliage
every five to seven days. Soil
drench concentrations can and
should be much stronger than
foliar applications. It does not
take as high of a concentration of
amino acids in a foliar application
to fill the amino gaps and