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And here are the rest of the babies, transplanted into the FOF-30 mix today. Those are three black domina cuttings on the right side of the top shelf.
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Hi IB, thanks for stopping by.
On the package of the Bio-tone starter plus it actually says that for maintenance of established plants to use one of their specific plant tone products. I think it's because those don't contain the Endor or Ectomycorrhizal Fungi...
And on the Citrus-tone label it says, "With frequent watering of potted plants, nutrients may be lost and more frequent application may be required. Feed every 60 days late winter to fall."
I am using it in concert with the OC+ and looking at a total lifetime of about 3.5 months. AT some point, top dressing of one or the other might be necessary.
Tomato-tone®
3-4-6
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS
The Espoma Company • 6 Espoma Road, Millville, NJ 08332
Total Nitrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0%
0.2%. . . . Ammoniacal Nitrogen
0.7%. . . . Water Soluble Nitrogen
2.1%. . . . Water Insoluble Nitrogen
Available Phosphate (P2O5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.0%
Soluble Potash (K2O). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.0%
Calcium (Ca) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0%
Magnesium (Mg). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.0%
0.7%. . . . Water Soluble Magnesium
Sulfur (S). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0%
Derived from: Hydrolyzed Feather Meal, Pasteurized
Poultry Manure, Cocoa Meal, Bone Meal, Alfalfa Meal,
Greensand, Humates, Sulfate of Potash, and Sulfate of
Potash Magnesia.
*Contains 2.1% Slow Release Nitrogen.
ALSO CONTAINS NON PLANT FOOD INGREDIENTS:
Contains 895 colony forming units (CFU’s) per gram of the
following species:
Acidovorax facilis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 CFU’s per gram
Bacillus licheniformis . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 CFU’s per gram
Bacillus megaterium . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 CFU’s per gram
Bacillus pumilus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 CFU’s per gram
Bacillus subtilis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 CFU’s per gram
Cellulomonas flavigena . . . . . . . . . . . 21 CFU’s per gram
Paenibacillus polymyxa. . . . . . . . . . . 21 CFU’s per gram
While fertilizer materials have unlimited shelf life, the
beneficial microbes in this product are best used within two
years of the production date (see side panel for production
date). After that time their numbers may be reduced.
Doc, I kind of like the nutrient ratios in the Citrus-Tone best, but am never going to find that around here...Maybe they would special order. Similarly it doesn't have the endo & ecti fungi.
One of the reasons for taking notes is to compare the rate of growth in various stages to my usual coir/Peters hydro drain to waste setup...
While it does have less Ca, it has more N and more K too.
I'm not sure it really matters though. As we've said previously, it's more the soil food web action that we're going for with these food sources in addition to the OC+.
I see what you did in terms of sort of adding the numbers from the two fertilizer sources together. Maybe that's the best way to do it. I honestly have no idea because we're factoring in different rates of release, etc. You know it's a heck of a lot of easier to mix up a reservoir with Peters + Calcinit + Epsom and have utmost confidence in the ppm numbers, etc.
The more I think about it Doc, the more I think Setting Sun and Irish are onto something with the combination of Dynamite OG (10-2-8) with the OC+. There are no fungi and bacteria, so just in terms of the ratios. I wish there was a CRF or SRF with higher K than N for bloom applications, but what are you going to do? The one with the best ratio amongst all of the companies might be the Dynamite blue label, but it's supposed to last for up to 9 months. Tell me about this Great White product. Is it a powder or a liquid?