SU2
Omono
I'm sick of my approach to this, IE "just keep getting different-brands each bag, surely they'll average-out to something 'ok'", I use these granular fertilizers in-conjunction-with instant-release ferts (I consider them as my 'always-there' fertilizer as I water pretty heavily)
I was buying some L.Sulfur on ebay when the Suggested Products window caught my eyes, after a minute of clicking around I'd found:
- 5lbs Ammonium Sulfate $25 (my assumption/recollection being that *this* is the nitro we want for quasi-hydroponic setups IE something that's water-soluble/always-available for uptake)
- 4lbs "Triple Superphosphate", a term I used to think was a brand but apparently triple-superphos is actually a pretty good phos-source, unless my quick googling gave a false-impression it seems this Triple-Super is a staple for farmer-use for phosphates
- did not glance for Potassiums just yet
So....anyone ever do this? Furthermore, are those the forms of N&P that I'd want? What would my K/Potassium 'Best Format/Formulation' product be called?
My last bag of store-bought burned some of my trees pretty damn badly, I've been under-impression that it was due to a high Chlorine-content (bag said "No-more-than 10% Chlorine" which, well, doesn't really sound like something you should be giving to organic life, I missed it and suspect I chlorinated my trees with it :O ) Plus, the prices are beautiful.....plus, you can just mix-up the precise ratios you want, changing your NPK%'s on-the-fly, I can't believe I didn't go-for this approach sooner but better late than never!!!
[PS-- as a tangential, anyone ever actually try the "Whole foods, ground-up, as fertilizer"? I've seen some videos about cucumber-skin, banana peel skin, etc being taken and pulverized and used as fertilizer cakes/top-dressings, can link videos if this just sounds crazy to you guys lol but, in principle, the idea did seem to add-up I mean it's "hot composting" right on your substrate-surface but, for people like me who've got bonsai-in-development with the correspondingly-large containers & substrate-surfaces, it actually seems it could be done right....but the synthetics just seem so much better/more-precise, am not worried my soil's "sterile" in fact I re-use soils whenever making new containers so I know that "life/myco/worms" are all coming-over to any new box's substrate, I haven't planted a tree into sterile media in a looong time
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I was buying some L.Sulfur on ebay when the Suggested Products window caught my eyes, after a minute of clicking around I'd found:
- 5lbs Ammonium Sulfate $25 (my assumption/recollection being that *this* is the nitro we want for quasi-hydroponic setups IE something that's water-soluble/always-available for uptake)
- 4lbs "Triple Superphosphate", a term I used to think was a brand but apparently triple-superphos is actually a pretty good phos-source, unless my quick googling gave a false-impression it seems this Triple-Super is a staple for farmer-use for phosphates
- did not glance for Potassiums just yet
So....anyone ever do this? Furthermore, are those the forms of N&P that I'd want? What would my K/Potassium 'Best Format/Formulation' product be called?
My last bag of store-bought burned some of my trees pretty damn badly, I've been under-impression that it was due to a high Chlorine-content (bag said "No-more-than 10% Chlorine" which, well, doesn't really sound like something you should be giving to organic life, I missed it and suspect I chlorinated my trees with it :O ) Plus, the prices are beautiful.....plus, you can just mix-up the precise ratios you want, changing your NPK%'s on-the-fly, I can't believe I didn't go-for this approach sooner but better late than never!!!
[PS-- as a tangential, anyone ever actually try the "Whole foods, ground-up, as fertilizer"? I've seen some videos about cucumber-skin, banana peel skin, etc being taken and pulverized and used as fertilizer cakes/top-dressings, can link videos if this just sounds crazy to you guys lol but, in principle, the idea did seem to add-up I mean it's "hot composting" right on your substrate-surface but, for people like me who've got bonsai-in-development with the correspondingly-large containers & substrate-surfaces, it actually seems it could be done right....but the synthetics just seem so much better/more-precise, am not worried my soil's "sterile" in fact I re-use soils whenever making new containers so I know that "life/myco/worms" are all coming-over to any new box's substrate, I haven't planted a tree into sterile media in a looong time
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