I need usage tips on Biogold!

[Smoke]

This product which I started useing last year, well the year before since this year is almost over is by Dr. Earth. All organic, balanced at 5-5-5 with micorrhizae and 11 percent humus from loenardite.

My trusty standby is still shake and feed by miracle gro, triple ten, almost instant results.

 

[Smoke]

Here is a tree of mine during the growing season with the tabs and shake and feed 10-10-10.

I go thru about 10 to 15 buckets of the 200 count tabs a year.

 

[FrankP999]

Thanks Smoke, I will look for some Dr Earth when my Gro Power tabs run out.

Frank

 

[chicago1980]

Bump this old thread. Have folks enjoyed the results of Biogold vs life Dr. Earth vs miracle grow 101010.

I'm preparing for spring now.

 

[sorce]

I'm going back to biotone and garden tone.

The season I mixed it in the soil gave me the best growth.

I may very well be ditching chemz forever. I have never seen proof in them.

Organics....
Much proof.

Sorce

 

[chicago1980]

Merry Christmas source.

What do you think of bio gold and Dr. Life earth? Both are organic slow release.

Are you using straight biotone?

Any fish or seaweed?

Thanks again!

I'm going back to biotone and garden tone.

The season I mixed it in the soil gave me the best growth.

I may very well be ditching chemz forever. I have never seen proof in them.

Organics....
Much proof.

Sorce

 

[sorce]

What do you think of bio gold and Dr. Life earth? Both are organic slow release.

Merry Xmas...some weather huh!?

I never used those...but I would stick them on the same train as the tones.

I mixed some in my soil for 2015.
That year...great growth...best ever.
But I didn't repot for 2016, and had really bad growth...so no more mixing it in. Probly screen covered teabags next year.

(screencovered teabags=porno?)

I also plucked some seedling shrubs from the park, put em in a row....I spilled about 100% more tone in one spot, and those 2-3 grew 4 Times as much as the others.

Yes I use the fish. Oh yes! Love it!

But MG...or Chemz....
I don't doubt they help a little....

But to me....it is like crackers and marshmallows....
Organic is like Multigrain bread and Avocado.

Sorce

 

[sorce]

I should add.....

Around late August this year....I bought a bottle of MG....
Fucking pissed cuz I remembered why I stopped buying that shit....
The pour spout blows....always catches in the rim and spills.....

Anyway....that normally lasts a year...

I used it all in 2 months....

No miracles.

F chemz.

Sorce

 

[M. Frary]

But MG...or Chemz....
I don't doubt they help a little

If used properly they work just fine.
Without bugs,smell or animals trying to dig into pots.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

I usually avoid soil and fert threads because variables and tempers run high. But I will share this experience: last year I swapped my PlantTone cakes of 10 years for Dr. Earth in teabags, all year, using roughly the same quantity; 15 lb for the year, maintaining the usual weekly +/- fish emulsion, and it was the worst year for growth I've had in a decade. Spring extensions stalled out by June, candles were smaller and later to return after candle-cutting. Even my ume's blooms this spring were less than half of previous years.
1/5/15 and 1/11/16:

This year, I returned to PlantTone and supplemented with Biogold and it was another great year of growing. The Ume is budding up nicely too. This is not scientific, just my experience, but it was noticeable and interesting.
12/23/16:

 

[crust]

I usually avoid soil and fert threads because variables and tempers run high. But I will share this experience: last year I swapped my PlantTone cakes of 10 years for Dr. Earth in teabags, all year, using roughly the same quantity; 15 lb for the year, maintaining the usual weekly +/- fish emulsion, and it was the worst year for growth I've had in a decade. Spring extensions stalled out by June, candles were smaller and later to return after candle-cutting. Even my ume's blooms this spring were less than half of previous years.
1/5/15 and 1/11/16:
View attachment 126957 View attachment 126958
This year, I returned to PlantTone and supplemented with Biogold and it was another great year of growing. The Ume is budding up nicely too. This is not scientific, just my experience, but it was noticeable and interesting.
12/23/16:
View attachment 126959

Did you notice the Doc E not really breaking down in the Tea B. It was as if it needed more physical exposure in order to break down. I used Doc earth in open cups with small holes and it seemed completely different--I could see a fertility reaction quickly.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Did you notice the Doc E not really breaking down in the Tea B. It was as if it needed more physical exposure in order to break down. I used Doc earth in open cups with small holes and it seemed completely different--I could see a fertility reaction quickly.

Yes, but the tea bags rotted within a few weeks, and the Dr. E did find its way into the soil.

 

[tstrum]

I usually avoid soil and fert threads because variables and tempers run high. But I will share this experience: last year I swapped my PlantTone cakes of 10 years for Dr. Earth in teabags, all year, using roughly the same quantity; 15 lb for the year, maintaining the usual weekly +/- fish emulsion, and it was the worst year for growth I've had in a decade. Spring extensions stalled out by June, candles were smaller and later to return after candle-cutting. Even my ume's blooms this spring were less than half of previous years.
1/5/15 and 1/11/16:
View attachment 126957 View attachment 126958
This year, I returned to PlantTone and supplemented with Biogold and it was another great year of growing. The Ume is budding up nicely too. This is not scientific, just my experience, but it was noticeable and interesting.
12/23/16:
View attachment 126959

The plant tone cakes, are they home made?

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

The plant tone cakes, are they home made?

Yep:
https://nebaribonsai.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/feeding-the-trees-let-them-eat-cake-and-fish/

 

[tstrum]

Awesome! Thank you so much! I do follow your blog but I'm new to it and haven't yet made my way thru it all yet.

I was noticing that both you and Sorce mentioned different tones but he mixes his in the soil but you mentioned cakes so just wanted to check. Thank you for the link!

 

[ceriano]

If my math is correct I need about 40 to 50 pellets for a 8” by 10” pot. That sounds a lot.