food sticks?

[homegrownboy]

i was wondering if using food sticks...like the ones you stick in the soil...would be anygood?

 

[homegrownboy]

no one knows?

 

[MagusALL]

not me, but i also wondered this question.

 

[tckfui]

I've been wondering the same thing too... TELL US!!!

 

[dirtyal1223]

Ive heard they release too much nutes into the soil and give a lot of peoples plants nute burn

 

[homegrownboy]

ahh...i see, that's probably why there so cheap

 

[budman56]

If you mix the soil right, there's no need to do such a thing. Nute stick are OK on outside plants where they can be 1-2 feet away from the stem so they won't burn the roots

 

[aeval]

i was wondering if using food sticks...like the ones you stick in the soil...would be anygood?

Have you found an answer for this one? Sometimes i'm on a very tight budget and can only afford those cheap food sticks instead of buying the good liquid stuff.

 

[kronicsmurf]

I've always heard bad things about them. but i've also heard bad things about miracle grow and i know that some growers use it. Peace

 

[koncyse]

i dont assume crushing the sticks and diluting like REALLY FUCKING DILUTING and using it the same as liquid would work would it? I ask because i cant afford good nutes and was looking at some i had for a bonsai i murdered that i got for my bday last year. I was going to start a thread and saw this one.

 

[LettheWookieeWin]

I was in that situation once to, I didn't use alot of the stick depending on the size of your pot maybe 1/8 or 1/16 of the stick not very much and it worked pretty good for my budget and plant. just DON'T overdo it

 

[koncyse]

so basically, the Jobe Spikes say change every 60 days so if i water in the hempy bucket like once a week, that would be 1/8th roughly of the spike and that would be too much??

 

[tech209]

reminds me of MG time release soil.......

 

[LettheWookieeWin]

It really depends on the amount of soil and how far you can place it from the plant any smaller than like 1-1/2 to 2 gal pot use less than 1/8th to start and get a feel for it. Also I dont know if those spikes have all the nutes you need, I would check that out too I vaguely remember having some deficiencys

hope that helps

 

[campzoe]

have ne of you all tryed cow pots???

 

[koncyse]

i'll be using the hempy bucket method with 100% perlite so if its over nuted i should just have to flush with plain water.