Help! Used a Jerry Baker tonic and...

I used a Jerry Baker tonic called "All Season Green Up". This can be used on lawns, shrubs, trees, flowers and veg plants. However, after I sprayed it a few days ago, now some of my flower's leaves have turned yellow and then to a crisp brown. Some of the flowers have died off and some buds now aren't flowering and/or are limp. Most all of my flowers have lost their nice deep green color and are a light green to yellow. This is the tonic recipe: 1 can beer, 1 c. ammonia, 1/2 c. liquid dish soap, 1/2 c. liquid lawn food and 1/2 c. white karo syrup. Mix all together and put into a 20 gal. hose end sprayer. Does anyone have any ideas as to what happened to some of my flowers? I had no reservations using a Jerry Baker tonic as my Dad has done this for many years with great success. Thanks for any ideas and possible solutions to help my flowers thru this obvious stress.

Crisping leaf edges could be fertilizer burn, there are several nitrogen containing things in that recipe and spraying it directly on the leaves could have been a bit much. Or could it be that the hose-end sprayer wasn't working properly and it didn't dilute the material sufficiently? A mixture like that if it's diluted properly shouldn't harm your plants (you'd have a hard time convincing me it would do anything good for them either, but that's a separate discussion), but if it came out more concentrated than it was supposed to it could easily burn the leaves. Or the other possibility is that the lawn food you used was somehow different than the one he planned the recipe around, maybe it was more concentrated than whatever he had used but you didn't realize it.

Put a reply on the flower forum but will also reply for this one. I'm not sure about the 20 gal. sprayer. Was from my Dad's supplies for Jerry Baker tonics. I'm not sure how you know if it's diluting it correctly? Good question. I think I'll stick with my Miracle Gro ritual as it's never done me wrong for my flowers. Since my Dad had such a beautiful lawn and etc., I thought I'd give this Jerry Baker thing a try too. To tell you the truth, not sure if he did his flowers with it. He didn't have a whole lot of them. But in Jerry's book, he said it was good for everything including flowers, vegies, etc. Did do this tonic on my lawn about 3 wks. ago and did fine on that. However we did get a spell of hot weather since. I'm not sure on the liquid lawn food as the recipe in his book doesn't really give you a formula strength. I used my Dad's and I bought more with the same "formula" as his. I haven't used the new stuff but finished up my Dad's. It does however say Weed and Feed on it and noticed in your other reply that that might be the problem. I'm really babying the flowers that seemed to have been effected by this tonic. When I noticed they were stressed a couple days later, I really watered them to the point of run thru from the bottom to hopefully flush this tonic out.