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fertilizer How often should I fertilize
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I use fish fertilizer and I think it says to fertilize every three weeks. I am waiting for Chile Focus and it says you can fertilizer every day w/a diluted solution or weekly. Personally, I think it is hard to determine when to fertilize. All of my plants are different. Some have a slight yellowing of leaves, so look healthy. It's my first year growing peppers and I am trying to get a handle on getting all plants healthy. There will be more knowledgable growers who will be able to give more insight.
I just use MG Bloom Booster once a week, then alternate with Epsom salt every other week. Seems to be working fine SO far...
I like adding nutrients with every watering. Much more control than spreading a granular fertilizer. If they get a little too much, you can just flush them out with plain old water. My plants get Botanicare ProGrow and Liquid Karma at every watering. They seem to love it so far. Will switch to Liquid Karma and ProBloom in about a month.
In my raised beds I worked in some nutrients , gypsum , and soil activator around December. When the plants start to look like they need food I'll use some Espoma Tomato-Tone. In my 5 gal buckets I used a little gypsum ,soil activator , and Tomato-Tone mixed into the last 2 gallons of soil that I topped of the plants off with when transplanting. The Tomato-Tone is new to me , if it's not doing what I want I'll use some Inoic Bloom ( 4-5-8 ) like I did last year. With this I added it almost every watering. It's a pretty weak product. I also used some Cal/Mag about once a month.
I agree with ditter on the use of adding a liquid nutrient solution. If you use to much you flush it out . The Tomato-Tone is new to me but I've heard so many good things about it I had to give it a try. It's a dry powder ( more or less ) that you work into the soil or top dress with. But I'm guessing flushing is out with this.
The best thing you can do is use LESS of anything .... you can always use a little more easier than trying to flush it out.
Peace & good luck,
P. Dreadie
I agree with ditter on the use of adding a liquid nutrient solution. If you use to much you flush it out . The Tomato-Tone is new to me but I've heard so many good things about it I had to give it a try. It's a dry powder ( more or less ) that you work into the soil or top dress with. But I'm guessing flushing is out with this.
The best thing you can do is use LESS of anything .... you can always use a little more easier than trying to flush it out.
Peace & good luck,
P. Dreadie
Bleash said:
I for one, live in a part of Thailand that has notoriously bad dirt; acidic and clay. When the soil is dry even a pick axe is useless (not kidding). My wife and I have been working for a year to improve it with compost, coir, and a truckload of topsoil. I have only one plant in the ground and it's a sad decline from it's life in a pot. All my other plants are in soil mixtures I've put together and most are okay. The plant in the ground is the only one I've given NPK ferts to and it hasn't helped. Everything else is organic with one exception and that's micro-nutes. But, I may have found an organic micro-nute.
Everybody has to do what they see as the way to go; I have always been an organic grower until Thailand; but I'm learning. Cheers.
Bleash said:
This is just begging for an experiment. Try the Chili Focus on a few plants throughout the growing season and see if it makes any difference. If it doesn't then don't change a thing. If it does, like I suspect it will, then you'll know if and when you need to use it.
Good luck!
My game plan is to give 'em a couple tablespoons of TomatoTone every 3 weeks. Then, in between the TomatoTone feedings, a light feeding of Neptune's Fish/Seaweed. So they will be getting something roughly every 10 days. With each 10-day feeding will come a moderate watering.
I do think Tomato Tone gives peppers everything they need. Last year I used it and only it, with my container plants. They grew big and strong and gave me many more pods than I could eat. I prefer not to have all my eggs in one basket, so this year I'm branching out with the Neptune's, but I still think the Tone could easily get the job done without an assist.
btw, that Neptune's stuff ROCKS with other kinds of plants. I mean, really ROCKS on herbs, pumpkins, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. You can see the difference within a day of applying it.
I do think Tomato Tone gives peppers everything they need. Last year I used it and only it, with my container plants. They grew big and strong and gave me many more pods than I could eat. I prefer not to have all my eggs in one basket, so this year I'm branching out with the Neptune's, but I still think the Tone could easily get the job done without an assist.
btw, that Neptune's stuff ROCKS with other kinds of plants. I mean, really ROCKS on herbs, pumpkins, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. You can see the difference within a day of applying it.