to let one apple spoil the barrel. This is the most successful forum on Dave's besides General and some days beats it. Let's continue to have fun, talk about the double pink club and Owen's cakes.
I'm just finishing potting up a lot of Eric's pink crosses, and they are doing wonderfully. I ran out of 4" pots and necessity being the mother of invention, I got out my plastic 20 oz cups and went to town:) They all look very happy, and I do believe that Osmocote is the best thing ever for brugs. Ones I potted up several weeks ago with it compared to some of the same size without it are ridiculous!! They love this stuff.
Have a great day and don't mind the grinch.
and I refuse
You Go Girl....
tig, that is why i started buying the osmocote, the mom/pop nursery down the street that ALWAYS complies with all the laws used it. after buying it by the gallon bag all last year i bought 50 pounds with minors, still have 10-15 pounds. it supposedly realized with the heat, so in the winter it uses a lot less, so i guess it is safe for someone like me who still has lots of plants with blooms.
No offense meant to anyone, but i never understood why someone would fertilize with a liquid every 5 days or a week when they could throw the stuff on the ground every couple of months. i do get my fix by using a bloom booster mix that i throw on the ground once in a while.
and once it warms up for you again, i know it depends and in winter you don't want them to all grow too fast, but i love to root them in 2-3 gallon buckets, they grow so much faster. as soon as i see new growth i put on a light dose of osmocote. you should she my HG, expecting blooms any day. (is it legal for me to have HG? should i call my lawyer?)
Thanks for the tip on the osmocote - I will definately try it this year.
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Who spit on the floor? Bet it was tiG:)
Arlene, do you have a certificate showing that HG is legal to own? haha
What is the numbers of the osmocote? I use 15-30-15 Miracle Grow on my "who knows if legal or not" cuttings people have sent me.
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LOL!!! yes Owen, it was me, hope you didn't step in it:)
LOL - Oblamberet!, I was using Miracle grow on my "who knows if it is legal or not" cuttings too - but from what I have understood from the above posts, osmocote may be a better fert.
pebble, it's fantastic!!! I have two 'I won't name them' and they have grown more in a month than almost anything I've grown all year. Way out grew what I fed with Miracle gro. I'm really amazed with this stuff!!
hmmmm didn't know you chewed tobacco tiG! LOL
Naw, didn't step in it....my cat was licking it up:)
Guess she has a taste for nicotine! haha
ok....give me the numbers for the osmocote and I will go to WalMart and get myself some.....wonder if only legal brugs like that stuff; hate to waste it on illegal ones:)
Owen still in Wild Wonderful WV
Brugcrazy, talk to your favorite nursery... mine sells it to me, also a local feed and seed store carries it. they just starting selling 10 pound bags in home depot.....
Owen, don't remember the numbers (cake or?)... i don't know if it matters really. i bought the kind with minors, still have to see if there is a citrus fertilizer time realized might be cheaper, they have minors in them too.
i am not saying you have to have minors but i have pure sand.... works well for me.
The only jar they had at my legal nursery was for veggies and bedding plants, so that's what I got. Even my illegal ones love it.
Tig, are you feeding them the oscomote now? I have several that I have brought in - I was assuming they are going dormant, in which case I wouldnt normally be giving them a booster, shall I just treat them as houseplants and let them grow all thru the winter and then they will already be huge in spring when I can put them out?
I have some in the back rooms that I've let go dormant. I have a over a hundred in here under the grow lights. I fed them, including the ones from Hodnik and you wouldn't believe those two!!! It's amazing, I can almost watch the Butterfly grow.
I just found osmocote in the local home depot they must of been out
osmocote, what it is? can u tell me tiG please... thank you
Rose, it's a fertilizer, looks like little yellowish balls. It slow releases the fertilizer in when you water, and you don't have to feed them near as often. You can get it at almost any nursery.
ok tiG thank you so much explaining to me.
Tig, can you use it on anything like you would miracle grow?
yes, I've heard of people even using it in their water lilies. I promise you pebble, it is sure worth a shot, you wouldn't believe the difference. I never thought much of it, because it's slow release. I changed my mind!
We mix Osmocote into our potting mix here at the green house. (I'm not sure if you have to have an aplicaors permit to use it) Our baskets and potted plants do so much better.
It was DH who spit on the floor, he chews tobacco!!
Other nurserymen (and women) use the Osmocote like mulch. We buy it in 50lb bags.
Cala, I was wondering if you can put too much in it, the brugs so love to eat. I better go get out my license to make sure i can put on more.
TiG, you are so funny!! I toss it on by the hands full.(hand fulls?) this pain medicine has damaged my spelling and grammar!! The only thing I've killed with Osmocote is a mum. It died when the fertilizer got against the stem and burned it. I do like Arlene, and use it as soon as the cuttings are rooted. Once I even got potting soil out of the main potting table and they had mixed Osmocote in; I stuck my cuttings in, watered them in and I think they rooted faster.
Tig, in the pot i kind of ring them, throw it around but not too near the stem.
Hi everyone,
I'm new here and all, but this is kind of ridiculous.
I didn't realize we could get in trouble for trading cuttings over the garden fence, via, the internet. My mom and grandmother and her mother and so on and so on, have done it for years. I had always considered them upstanding citizens. I didn't trade for plants to market or sale to the general public. I wanted these beauties for my own enjoyment.
Is it legal to posses large quanities of osmocote? How large is large? I would like to try it, but I don't want to be busted for possesion. Besides, I promise not to inhale. :-)
Just been catching up. See Gardeners are trouble makers. Now I have to be on the watch for brugbusters!
Smiles to everyone!
GreenLeaf, the only thing is buying osmocote in enough quantity that it doesn't cost an arm and a leg. they sell it at a seed and feed in town, i bought mine from a nursery to get the minors in it.
they have a website that tells kind of where you can find it.
homedepot has started carrying 10 pound bags for about $18.00 here.
might be even more fun sneaking around the brugbusters....
I will have to check it out and see what I can get. I need some to feed my babies. I have always used miracle grow but if this is better, I'll switch. Can you use it on veggies?
on anything as far as i know. there may be other time released as good, not sure....
I use Osmocote on everything I plant. Works great for water lilies and other aquatics too...once and done for the season instead of getting in the pond & fertilizing every month. The little jars are pricy, and last year I found 15lb. bags at Lowes' for about 23$ ea. It is 18-6-12, I think. Arlene, what are minors?
Jean
Jean, cala is the expert, i think calcium,iron, manganese, a few more things. i have sand here, clumps of limestone. it can rain an inch in an hour and in 15 minutes it's all soaked in. i don't know that anyone else needs them.
Thanks Arlene..just red clay here, so maybe I don't need the additional minerals.
Jean