Question about Silica and 10-10-10

[Deleted member 47471]

After listening to much Podcast content from Mirai and other sources, I've learned a little about Silica for thickness and overall cell growth and health for Bonsai. I posed the question to an online AI (which drew from multiple online resources to produce an answer, but I would like to ask the community here and get feedback and personal experience with Silica. Is it generally safe to use Silica and 10-10-10 fertilizer together? Isi it advisable to begin with much smaller quantities of 10-10-10 when introducing Silica (to avoid toxicity or over-fertilizing)?

 

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I would start by not trusting AI, particularly on topics like this. Marai and Apical Ag are really pushing the boundaries on things (in a good way) and their knowledge is not going to be well documented in AI training sets.

Further the AI doesn't know anything. It can tell you the next most likely word in a sentence if you give it the context of who has written the sentence down, or something similar in the past.

But I don't know anything about Silica.