Yes, but you have know how to take care of the worms.

I've used organics for outdoor plants, but I'm not ready to raise worms in my apartment. Same with indoor composting. It's not like I have to buy yards of soil for my indoor plants.

I love my worms! I’ve had a compost bin going for almost 2 years and my plants have never been happier.

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What if I put slow release fert, can I still use the blue water?

@@Dynysis no don’t double up

⁠@@SheffieldMadePlantswhy not? I haven’t had any issues using both. One is for immediate nutriets, the other is to break down over time. Seems like that would be the best way to go about it. A combination of immediate and slow release

@@Dynysismost people would say to do it

Same to you!

Greetings, when using the fertilizer does it burn and or rot your plants? When I try it on my houseplants, they end up burning, rotting then dying.

@@LoHMysticAgent Hi. I'd suggest using the fertilizer at half-strength to avoid overfeeding. That may help. Good luck.

Im guessing you grow these all in pots? I've never found zinnias to benefit from ferts in the garden. I haven't tried them in containers because they grow so well in ground. One of the few things that flower from April to December in my garden.

@Th3RealRyan this was in the soil, and I had great success. My Zinnias were over 6 feet tall and had huge flowers. I still feed with organics in the fall. I try to use organics when possible, but if the organic spray doesn't cure, then I will use a synthetic.

@jpc1147 interesting. I don't use anything in my soil, just whatever compost I make myself and get fairly large flowers and good crop yields. I dont think my Zinnias are quite 6ft though so I guess they are getting something out of the fertilizers. I use a lot for my potted plants, so I try and save money, not using it on the ground, lol. Might try using a little next year and see.

What are the ups and downs of using synthetics?

@mcgritty8842 The pros are that synthetics are instantly available to the plant. The cons are that it washes out fairly quickly. Synthetics feed your plants. Organics feeds your soil. Hope this helps.

I think it depends on the soil for inground. If you treat your soil poorly it will respond poorly. - My brother uses ferts with an auto feeder and drip. I grew some CC Jalapeño seedlings indoors and gave him some in early Feb to put in ground. We both transplanted it the same weekend. I harvest my first batch in late April and have harvested enough to make Texas Poppers for 3 family Qs thus year and fill a jar for pickles. He's literally only gotten 1 small harvest. Our squash, tomatoes, melons, etc aren't even comparable. I don't use any fertilizer, I just take care of the soil. Potted plants need a lot of fertilizer though, due to the nature of growing in pots.

@@Th3RealRyan I was using manure, worm castings peat to amend the soil before I planted. It was a disappointing experience.

@bpapso I wouldn't use any of those things. Manure can kill plants, peat shouldn't really he used in beds. Worm castings are ok, but overpriced. - If you can try making homemade compost and or find a good source of compost ( not black kow or really any bagged ones tbh.) Normally you can get it free from the city but you have to pick it up yourself. If not there's probably bulk sellers that are cheaper than bags anyway. Ideally making it yourself, though, if possible. Besides that it's important to keep the soil alive year round. If you can grow something tolerant of your winter lows that's great, but at a min try adding a 2inch layer of compost and covering it when the beds are out of use. - You can keep using the MG while doing the other stuff at the same time. You aren't on an industrial farm I'm assuming, so you won't be using enough to damage the soil. Over time you should notice you can reduce the MG and get the same yields until eventually you don't need it at all.

@@bpapso synthetic makes your soil dependent on fertilizer which in turn the idea of planting a home garden in the first place. Synthetics are high in salt content and destroy your soil quality the longer you use it making what you plant mire dependent on those synthetic because you’ve destroyed the natural organic material in the soil.. Building soil quality takes more than one season to do.

@@Bam_Bam_Bam_Bamthis is simply false rhetoric that has been disproven. If you abuse anything, bad things will happen. Use it the right way and you’ll have no issues❤

Everything is organic basically like plants differ in the NPK Value they require! NPK is organic. Prominently featured, the N-P-K-ratio is the percentage the product contains by volume of nitrogen (chemical symbol N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K). A 16-16-16 fertilizer, for example, contains 16% nitrogen, 16% phosphorus, and 16% potassium.

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I might suggest Dr. Earth products. . I'm new to Dr. Earth my self , so we'll see....

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Thanks!

Glad I could teach you something new 😁

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Aren’t they only lower by ratio numbers though. 1-1-1 would essentially the same as 20-20-20, right?

@@mcgritty8842 Uh, maybe a math refresher course?

@@mcgritty8842 I apologize for that snarky reply. Yes, the ratio is the same, but the concentrations are not. With organic fertilizers, as my hero Mr. Sheffield says, improve the soil health, and your green pals are living in soil, after all. (We're not going to talk about the hydroponic geeks here.) My point about organic vs. inorganic costs is that you're getting a higher concentration of nutrients for your $. But money isn't everything, right? (Uh...well...we could all use more, I suppose). I use an organic fertilizer (always half strength) along with half strength inorganic, but the inorganic is for those plants that seem to need the boost. If your plants are doing just fine, it ain't broke, so don't fix it.

Seasol isn’t a fertiliser and has no significant NPK content just so you know. The same company makes PowerFeed which actually is a fertiliser and is decent. Seasol is good for plant hardiness and root growth though.

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Won’t that stink? 😅

​@LikaPyramid no fish tank water is odorless really if the tank is healthy. At worst it smells like lake water or mud.

Yes same here, my plants absolutely love it, they perk right up after a good soak.

@@thomashaapalainen4108 interesting!

Ever since my daughter set me up with a 10 gallon fish tank, my snake plants, succulents, and cactus have never grown faster and fuller with no risk of over fertilizing.

@@Abcd-jz4gp i started in coco and perlite only, then moved on to biobizz light-mix while i purchased organic amendments to transition to (an attempt at) DIY organic living supersoil. you can find the recipe @ pastebin\pbxMZysq, but I would tweak some ratios were i to mix it from scratch over again, namely diminish sphagnum moss by at least half to help drainage (it acts like a sponge), and increase calmag by 2~3x. Also increase guano a bit, and find a source of boron and manganese. Maybe even insect frass or crab/oyster meal to feed the worms more reliably, as alternate source of calcium although I quite like dolomite lime with added calcium carbonate, i'm not sure the worms like it as much as the plants do. I would also increase ratio of worm castings. Since I grew and harvested with that DIY supersoil twice, I have transitioned to amending it with cow manure based medium (worm castings are expensive and I can't make my own in small apartment). The seeds love it, I have best germination rates directly in soil with a bit of dolomite and not much fertilizer in a cardboard cup. It requires a bit more extra perlite to make it work, and it's making me a bit uncomfortable to use much of it I am considering finding another source of medium aeration since sphagnum moss didn't do the job as well as I hoped. I started experimenting with granite rocks see if the raw crystallized mineral does the plants any good. Pumice looks interesting too. That's about all of my first hand knowledge, I am currently expanding my results and testing against other plants and less than ideal conditions like no humidifier, and bonsai stress training is my current latest hobby lol ^^ Hope that was an interesting answer to read and not a babble of thoughts, let me know if you have anything to add/ask :)

Homie wants to know how you grow your weed. Terpenes get me high

Never used them

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Yes, please!

Have you seen the price of honey lately? If I can't afford it to eat, my plants are just gonna have to go without it.

Is it meant for houseplants? Sounds like it's an outdoor kind of fert

@@SheffieldMadePlants It's actually indoor, specifically. It's funny, I checked and the label has "Indoor" really large on the front. I might try it with one plant that I would be willing to repot should flies find it. I didn't want to make the living room into one giant poo pile for them. :) It's not that smelly to me, but to the flies, not sure. lol

Well, that's always the issue with organics. Outside, sure, absolutely. Indoors? You want to make sure your house doesn't wind up smelling like a barn. Outdoors, insects have rarely been an issue for me, but now I'm stuck in a flat and going all organic just isn't going to...uh...fly.

Organic is still better long term

@@SheffieldMadePlants If my organic fertilizer is designated as a foliar fertilizer, can I still apply it to the soil instead and will the roots absorb and benefit from it?

Cheers!

@@SheffieldMadePlants ah ha! Cheers to you too! Now I'll think of it as a cocktail for my plants 🤣🍹

You might check out Epsom salt it's great for blooms. You'll have to look up how much to use. When I gardened years ago I'd always put some in the planting holes. The plants really liked it. Not sure if you can use it on house plants though.

@@catbb1000 I'll put it on my shopping list and give it a try. Thanks!

Yes potting soils do come with bugs sometimes. I’ve got a video about this on weds. You want soil that isn’t decomposing basically

Don’t see why not

Thanks for sharing!

Sounds good

Worth an experiment

But it's organic out there and isk what these apparent organic plant liquids are I know more about cannabis then any other plant but I would see if you could send me a list of the ingredients as a chemist I can almost guarantee that you will either basically robbed by these companies with claims of we take the fertilizers in our products from organic sources if it's NPK it doesn't matter what it says organic or not everything's organic miracle grow that's just NPK stuff yeah? If so would you let me know what the other stuff is??

I just searched for why Miracle-Gro is blue and found one answer that said this: "I have some Miracle Gro on hand, the water soluble kind: The blue stuff is copper sulfate, or CuSO4. In short, it is included in these formulations because plants need copper for biosynthesis; and because it acts as a fungicide, presumably leading to a nicer ecosystem in one's lawn/garden."

They might be able to sort something out for you. Worth emailing. The owner's name is Sybren

@@SheffieldMadePlants thank you!

Should be in my Amazon linked in description

That's why it's far easier to just use half strength every time. If your plant needs water, it's getting a little bit of food along with it. If the soil's dry, the roots can't take up nutrients either, so it just makes sense to feed lightly with each watering.

Don’t remember saying that

What's in the organic stuff my friend!

Holy heck me too! I am so happy to have found Rich and his whole plant family all over the world. Peace. Thanks.

Awesome!

Yes, that's true. But plants also require other chemicals in small amounts, so it's important to use a product that provides some of those trace elements and have healthy soil with the microorganisms that actually allow the roots to take up those chemicals.

@@jackrice2770 they make different fertilizers in different ratios for different purposes. Synthetic ones just take a step out so the plant gets it faster.

@@orionishi6737 True. However, many studies have shown that, unless you're going straight hydroponics, which is a whole different ballgame, the soil must be able to support all the microorganisms that actually make nutrients available. Yes, your plant will absorb the NPK, but some of the other requirements for a healthy plant must first be processed by fungi/bacteria etc. That's why a root bound plant doesn't do well, irrespective of how much water/fertilizer you give it. it still needs compost and 'dirt' to grow well. It's not like growing corn or wheat, where you can just keep dumping lots of chemical fertilizer and water on it to get it to grow for six months and then harvest a crop. I use synthetic fertilizers as a supplement to healthy soil. You get far more NPK in a bottle of synthetic fertilizer than organic, so it seems to me the cheaper solution is always synths. Adding something like seaweed solution or the like might be a good idea, going to give that a try one of these days.

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