those castings are good,im gonna try some in casting and some in bio and see what does better,
JIM
Look What I Found In My Cabinet!!
Great. Give us a report. Dying to know and see the difference. Take a picture, please.
Hey Jim............the castings are going to fool your eye because of organic content considerably greater and different than Bio-Tone content. I would down size the castings to about a half pint and Bio-Tone to a pint....both in a five gallon bucket of medium like Pro Grow adjusted with other medium structure additives according to your like. This would make a dandy basic medium. I would then go to using fish/kelp weekly weakly. I've been using this combo or other equals for a long time with about a ten percent compost and natural garden soil added to keep the biology all going the same direction. I rarely have pot to soil shock or soil to pot for winter shock.
Bio-Tone is a nice all purpose content of trace elements and mycorrhizae. Worm castings are rich in organic NPK with some trace elements. Except for structural changes I do not use anything else for all my pot planted growings.
docgipe, are you growing gessies? I just want to know what you are using both Bio-Tone (instead of Plant -Tone) and worm castings together on. Thanks.
gail
Bio-Tone is my combo choice inclusion with my basic medium as mentioned above. I adjust the structure only for Violets and all my potted plants inside and outside plantings. I just discovered Bio-tone. It has eliminated my inventory of all the items but together in the product for us. This very similar to the self created soil biology support I used when competive growing of giant pumpkins, long gourds and giant tomatoes. However to do that I needed fifty pound bags of all the elements. I was elated to discover Bio-Tone ready made for my pleasure.
I have pictured something I think is an example. I do not know this plant. It was a NOID gift. It is nestled with violets lighting and doing well. It is now in the violet medium. It started as a leaf cutting I picked up at an RU three months before the picture was taken. I am not to savy on the names of my grows. I just enjoy the growing process, the medium creation and even the photography. Due to age and health restraints my memory is definately short on plant names.
You are growing a nice episcia!!! I just wondered about the Plant Tone always recommended for 'mature' plants rather than Bio Tone..................