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fertilizer Best Fertilizers For Hot Pepper Plants?
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Oh, no... Here we go again! 
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You haven't really qualified the question. Best for what? Ground? Containers? Hydro? Organic? Conventional?
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The "best" fertilizer is a relative term - relative to your skill as a grower, and what your goals are. And honestly, there is no best. Fertilizers are fertilizers. As long as they have the stuff that plants need, you can't do much better than that. There is no "prime" rating for elemental nutrients. (lest the snake oil salesmen fool you)
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To keep this as simple as possible, given no other information - An organic or conventional fertilizer with at least 3-1-2 NPK is ideal, and for conventional any balanced fert of 4-4-4 or better, will do the trick. Higher numbers tend to indicate more time to burn down. In addition, you'll want a fert that has at least 7% calcium, and all the trace elements. There is absolutely no need to switch up your nutrients at any point in the season, either. Don't be taken in by the allure of "bloom boosters". If you just want to keep it simple, go balanced.
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You will find that there are so many growers, doing very well, using MANY different methods.
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My top performing fertilizers:
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1) Homemade rabbit poo and seaweed
2) Homemade fish and seaweed
3) Alaska Fish liquid
4) CNS17 grow liquid
5) Alaska all purpose pellets
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And I will use any old organic fertilizer to start new beds/containers. Generally, I use Dr. Earth Tomato and Veg. But really it doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of difference.
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You haven't really qualified the question. Best for what? Ground? Containers? Hydro? Organic? Conventional?
.
The "best" fertilizer is a relative term - relative to your skill as a grower, and what your goals are. And honestly, there is no best. Fertilizers are fertilizers. As long as they have the stuff that plants need, you can't do much better than that. There is no "prime" rating for elemental nutrients. (lest the snake oil salesmen fool you)
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To keep this as simple as possible, given no other information - An organic or conventional fertilizer with at least 3-1-2 NPK is ideal, and for conventional any balanced fert of 4-4-4 or better, will do the trick. Higher numbers tend to indicate more time to burn down. In addition, you'll want a fert that has at least 7% calcium, and all the trace elements. There is absolutely no need to switch up your nutrients at any point in the season, either. Don't be taken in by the allure of "bloom boosters". If you just want to keep it simple, go balanced.
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You will find that there are so many growers, doing very well, using MANY different methods.
.
My top performing fertilizers:
.
1) Homemade rabbit poo and seaweed
2) Homemade fish and seaweed
3) Alaska Fish liquid
4) CNS17 grow liquid
5) Alaska all purpose pellets
.
And I will use any old organic fertilizer to start new beds/containers. Generally, I use Dr. Earth Tomato and Veg. But really it doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of difference.
I have used Floramicro/floramato combo(npk 6-2-6) for many years with good results, also before i started using the Ghe nutes i had this Nutriforte two part fertilizer that was way cheaper than Ghe nutes, but work pretty much as good with a npk 22,5-5-29.
So you see all kind of different fertilizers work, but the ones that have worked good before had plenty of calcium added in the fertilizer.
So you see all kind of different fertilizers work, but the ones that have worked good before had plenty of calcium added in the fertilizer.
being a noobie myself i asked the same question a couple of weeks ago. i settled on the alaska fish emulsion and the alaska all purpose pellets. i just started using it so the rest of this grow season will be a good test on how it works.
If i had to pick one of the least expensive it would be Alaska fish emulsion and a bag of kelp meal or dried seaweed. If you only have a few pots then the Alaska fish/kelp pellets for veggie and tomato. The all purpose would work also. It has more N and less P. Neither one is expensive unless you got a bunch of containers.
I know the veggie and tomato has 7% calcium. Im pretty sure the all purpose has enough also.
https://www.pennington.com/all-products/fertilizer/alaska-vegetable-and-tomato-dry-fertilizer
https://www.pennington.com/all-products/fertilizer/alaska-all-purpose-dry-fertilizer
I know the veggie and tomato has 7% calcium. Im pretty sure the all purpose has enough also.
https://www.pennington.com/all-products/fertilizer/alaska-vegetable-and-tomato-dry-fertilizer
https://www.pennington.com/all-products/fertilizer/alaska-all-purpose-dry-fertilizer
It's all about the compost tea and fermented plant juice. Make sure to include a lot of Calcium sources like bonemeal.. bat guano.. dolimite lime.. gypsum..chicken poo..seabird guano..crab meal..oyster shell..fish meal ect.
Fermented plant juice turned into an Aereated Compost Tea also has a nice amount in already balanced amounts.
Fermented plant juice turned into an Aereated Compost Tea also has a nice amount in already balanced amounts.