Home Depot Nutrient Finds

[Harry Red]

I was browsing around looking at nutes available in the national chains and ran across a few easy to find nutrients that could be used in a pinch. I know not everyone has easy access to to a hydro-store. These items are routinely stocked at Home Depot.

Anyway, here's a few that I came across that might be useful.

Alaska Fish Fertilzer
Looks like it might work well as an organic veg nute: NPK = 5-1-1
Lilly Miller :: Alaska Brand

Miracle-Gro Liquid All Purpose Plant Food
Analysis is 12-8-4 so 50% strength is 6-4-2 , which is about the same as full strength Fox Farm's Grow Big (6-4-4) so it should work for vegging.
Miracle-Gro® Liquid All Purpose Plant Food : The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company :

Miracle-Gro Liquid Quick Start
Analysis is 4-12-4 so 75% strength is 3-9-3, which is about the same ratio as full strength Fox Farm's Tiger Bloom (2-8-4) so it should work for flowering.
Miracle-Gro® Liquid Quick Start® Plant Food : The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company :

Vigoro Root Stimulator
Might be useful as a starter nute or when transplanting. Here's the blurb..

Vigoro® Root Stimulator & Transplanting Solution 2-5-2 helps plants overcome transplant shock and get off to a better start. Our gentle 2-5-2 formulation provides nutrients that promote new root growth for faster establishment. It also contains Vitamin B1, which many professional growers include in their starter solutions.
Vigoro :: Root Stimulator and Transplanting Solution

If anyone knows of something else that can be easily purchased at national chains and may be useful for our purposes, please add to the list.

Comments welcome!



Harry

[Erk202]

Thanks for the post Harry

cool, im getin my MG all purpose plant food soon...

[Harry Red]

Is that what you've decided on? The granular version of that stuff is 24-8-16, so if you go with "All Purpose", you should go with the liquid that I have listed. The 12-8-4 NPK ratio will be better to work with than 24-8-16.

I know you said you were only vegging a week or two so you'll probably want something with higher P and lower N as you get further into flowering. To be honest, you'd really be better off using the Alaska Fish for the first couple of weeks and then ease into the Liquid Quick Start, which has a more suitable NPK ratio for flowering.



Harry

[Erk202]

yea i didnt realize u posted 2 diff MG. I never seend the liquid kind in my store ill have to see if they have the lquid kind.

and the fish one i already searched for my store doesnt sell it.

[Erk202]

ok come to find out my store does sell the Miracle-Gro Liquid Quick Start for $7.97

but whats the difference between that and the one you said i can use few days ago:
Miracle-Gro at Lowe's: 1.5 Miracle-Gro® Bloom Booster® Plant Food $4.97

[Harry Red]

One of the main differences with the MG "Bloom Booster" is that it's more concentrated (15-30-15) so you're going to have to start with a very weak solution and work your way in but I see no reason why it can't be used in a pinch.

Good luck and it will be interesting to see what kind of results you have with it.



Harry

[Erk202]

cool thanks, ima just do pinch by pinch and work my way up see if they like it....

[Racefan]

Hey harry, each home depot can carry different items. none are standard so what one carries, another might not. I found this out trying to buy a tow behind rake for my lawn tractor. And online they sell everything from wii's to ps3's. Even laptops.

[Hightide805]

Originally Posted by Harry Red

Alaska Fish Fertilzer
Looks like it might work well as an organic veg nute: NPK = 5-1-1
Lilly Miller :: Alaska Brand

I thought this one was for soil only? will this work for hydro


"Stimulates soil’s micro-organisms to help build soil content" this is what the web site says ??? i'm confused

[Harry Red]

You're right about that Racefan. You never know what might be in stock at a given Home Depot, especially this time of year. I did check a several zipcodes, east/west coast and I didn't run across any locations that were not selling these items in the store. You can always check Lowes, Ace Hardware or other national chains, as they usually carry these same items as well.

Online is another matter. I figure If you're ordering online, you'll skip Home Depot and just buy something that is designed specifically for our purposes.

Hightide805, all of these items are for use in soil. I wouldn't know how useful some of these items might be if using hydro. I not actually recommending these nutes either. I'm just suggesting these might be used in a pinch.



Harry

[RooRman]

Fish emulsion is about the most useful and widely available ferts. I can think of for vegging plants. I like Neptunes Harvest brand but Alaska works good too.

[Smokin_Kush!]

thanx i picked up alaskan fish fert. the other day plants seem to be liking it aloot!

[Smokin_Kush!]

any ideas of a organic flowering nute?

[TorturedSoul]

Originally Posted by Hightide805

I thought this one was for soil only? will this work for hydro

The problem with most soil fertilizers is that they have much of what a plant needs, but not all. Ok for soil grows where the plant can get some things from the soil, but not so much in a hydro environment where the media is inert.

Of course for that reason you can generally use hydro ferts in soil.

[RooRman]

Originally Posted by Smokin_Kush!

any ideas of a organic flowering nute?

http://www.420magazine.com/forums/in...w-roorman.html

Tomato ferts. also work well because they are generally high in phosphorus.