Smart Farming Solutions

What pathogen is attacking these young bean plants? A fungus? Some kind of microscopic insect?

Nope, just too much concentration of Super Boost. I use very little fertilizer in my vegetable garden. On occasion, I apply Super Boost foliarly after stressful environmental events. We just had a cold front zip through Florida, dropping temperatures from the high eighties one day to the low forties the next, with 30 to 40 miles an hour winds.

Super Boost is a mixture of chelated micro nutrients, seaweed extracts and fulvic acid. The chelate is glucoheptenate, which additionally provides food for microorganism. Plants under stress tend to respond well to this cocktail. In this case I exceeded the recommended mixture of Super Boost with water.

Interestingly, the bean leaves were the only ones to show spotting. The cucumbers, tomatoes, corn and squash showed no sign of damage. Fortunately, the beans will be fine. It’s not the first time I have been overzealous with soil and plant stimulants.

Labels: chelated nutrients, environmental stress, Super Boost