Fertilizer?

Oldguyrealy

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What kind of Organic Fertilizer for Garden and House Plants?

Prefer dry and not over priced. I'm trying to do this organic thing and all around Fertilizer is my???.

The girls I use General Hydroponics.
 

HydroKid239

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Easy to get, cheap, and it's exactly what you're asking for
Case & point there ^^^
I feed 1/4 cup per 5gal.
I’ll feed the veg formula til I flip.. the 1st top dress after the flip will be mixed 50/50 with flower girl for the next 2 applications. Then I switch to just flower girl at 1/4 cup per 5gal. Everything has come out awesome come harvest time.
Outside I just wait til I see flowers, and then I start mixing in flower girl.
 

weedstoner420

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Espoma is also decent, very similar ingredients to Dr Earth and it's what my local hardware store sells.

One nice thing about the dry organic fertilizers is you can actually follow the directions on the package and get good results. With most synthetic/liquid fertilizers the rule of thumb seems to be "start out at 1/4 or 1/2 the recommended amount and adjust as necessary," what's up with that?
 

HydroKid239

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Espoma is also decent, very similar ingredients to Dr Earth and it's what my local hardware store sells.

One nice thing about the dry organic fertilizers is you can actually follow the directions on the package and get good results. With most synthetic/liquid fertilizers the rule of thumb seems to be "start out at 1/4 or 1/2 the recommended amount and adjust as necessary," what's up with that?
n the beginning I respected Advanced nutrients because they would give different dosage info for different stages of the plants. I went with it, and had great results. Since then however I’ve learned to respect my wallet a lot more. Lol
 

Oldguyrealy

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Espoma is also decent, very similar ingredients to Dr Earth and it's what my local hardware store sells.

One nice thing about the dry organic fertilizers is you can actually follow the directions on the package and get good results. With most synthetic/liquid fertilizers the rule of thumb seems to be "start out at 1/4 or 1/2 the recommended amount and adjust as necessary," what's up with that?
Yes and they are pushing the Chemical. Got to reading learned a lot.

I have Farmed all my life and this is just the way things are done.
 

compassionateExotic

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Microlife ! It’s what big ag for organics use, what You call the organic version of osmocote . Meaning it slowly releases , has everything and then some. For cost you really can’t beat it and the results shine. I’ve tried soo many brands and this one really shines


This is the most powerful, most nutritional fertilizer possible yet will not burn. 100% slow release, an ‘Organic Osmocote’ but with over 100 + nutrients, minerals, vitamins, natural plant hormones, natural plant stimulators, essential sugars/amino acids/carbon/protein and billions of beneficial microbes representing 76 different species. In addition the extra NPK punch we drop in extra rock minerals so this product will rock with goodness. Awesome for all new plant starts. You will not need anything else to get your plants started.

MicroLife Ultimate 8-4-6
is an extremely powerful, homogenous, granulated All Organic Biological fertilizer containing: Fish, Kelp, Molasses, Emery Humates, Bat Guano, Rock Phosphate, Wheat Middling’s, Soy Meal, Cottonseed Meal, Alfalfa, Corn Meal, Kmag, Potassium Sulfate, Iron Sulfate, 18 select Amino Acids, Folic Acid, Vitamins, plus the MicroGro Supreme Bio-Inoculant package which contains billions of beneficial microorganisms including Endo & Ecto Mycorrhizal fungi. All ingredients are included in meaningful amounts.

MicroLife Ultimate 8-4-6
improves all soils by feeding the indigenous microbes, adding billions more, by providing specific soil improvers like polysaccharides, humic acid, fulvic acid and the major building blocks of life. MicroLife Ultimate 8-4-6 builds big root systems which further improves the soil and reduces water use.

Rates:
Building Beds and Gardens: 40 lb per 1,000 sq ft worked into the soil Top Dressing of Ornamentals: 20 – 40 lb per 1,000 sq ft.
Repeat every 3 – 4 months
Turfgrass: 12 – 15 lb per 1,000 sq ft
Tree installations and Containers: 2.5 oz per 5 gal size”
you can buy it on Amazon! 40lb for 99 bucks

i also suggest this with their base
MicroLife Humates Plus 0-0-4, All Organic Biological Soil Amendment

Concentrated Compost in a Bag. Tremendous soil improver and plant nutritional booster. Excellent for reducing plant water use and is used extensively on turfgrass areas. Can be used as a fertilizer too. Inexpensive and easy to spread. This is an amazing soil conditioner and greens plants quickly. Loosens clay soils better than gypsum and is cheaper to use. It is also used to revitalize beds. Excellent to apply with MicroLife 6-2-4 or MicroLife Hybrid 20-0-5. You will also find a big reduction in annual weed problems.


MicroLife Humates Plus
is a very well-crafted, totally unique biological and physical soil conditioner containing: Emery Humates, Potassium Sulfate, Norwegian Kelp, Yucca Wetting Agent, Molasses, Select Sugars, plus an enhanced MicroGro Supreme Bio-Inoculant package which contains billion of beneficial microorganisms including Endo & Ecto Mycorrhizal Fungi and Nitrogen fixing bacteria.

When MicroLife Humates Plus is applied it quickly opens up the soil and the super nutrients drop into the root zone. There it builds bigger root systems and increases soil organic matter. Water infiltration and oxygen flow is increased all to the plant benefit. Plants get a major nutritional boost by the inclusion of 70 + minerals, plant hormones, plant stimulators, vitamins and amino acids.

Will not burn and is completely safe for all beneficial life forms.”

75 bucks on Amazon, 1-2 bags for large garden and your set! both granular so no need for ppe and also super easy to disperse



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JeffWix

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I used to use Gaia Green...but it got expensive and hard to get where I live unless you buy from SCAMAZON...which I do not...so I switched to Dr. Earth...444 and 394...I use a few other things mixed into my soil... like green sand, gypsum, DE, oyster shell, Dr Earth 444 and earthworm castings...then I mix the soil for my buckets....and topdress with my dry ammendments mixed with earthworm castings after about 20 days veg/start of flower...a little 394 with more 444...I then hit them every 20 days with a topdress with day 60 being the last until finish...and they finish strong!
Most plants going 80 days.
 
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