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epsoma nutes

Nutes might be a bad term, but I've just found this stuff at lowes and homedepot and at first glance it looks pretty kickass. It calls for 1/25 of potting mix, but since I'm running bone, blood and kelp I'm going to cut it down to about 1/100. Also I'm using soil from my last grow, if you care ask and I'll post what it was. Hope this is a good product and can help you guys as well.

Derived from: Hydrolyzed Feather Meal, Pasteurized
Poultry Manure, Cocoa Meal, Bone Meal, Alfalfa Meal,
Greensand, Humates, Sulfate of Potash, and Sulfate of
Potash Magnesia.

Total Nitrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0%
0.4%. . . . Ammoniacal Nitrogen
1.6%. . . . Water Soluble Nitrogen
3.0%. . . . Water Insoluble Nitrogen
Available Phosphate (P2O5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0%
Soluble Potash (K2O). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0%
Calcium (Ca) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0%
Magnesium (Mg). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.0%
0.6%. . . . Water Soluble Magnesium
Sulfur (S). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.0%

http://www.espoma.com/p_consumer/tones_overview.html
 
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Ulysses

Member
The "Tones" are just ok. I think they are too coarse and don't break down in our short flowering period.

I will grab a bag of Biotone Starter with Myco. if I can get a ripped bag 1/2 off or it's on sale. Might break down faster being a starter nute and all... You are probably going to need pulverized dolomite lime for Cal/Mag.

I'll still use Tomatotone if it's on sale- in my tomato garden.

I have settled on Rainbow Mix Grow and Bloom mixes- very finely ground guano based dry nutes.
 

mad librettist

Active member
Veteran
as microbeman pointed out, the biotone as very little of the kind of mycorrhizae we are after. As a soil food it is fantastic worked right under the mulch. It works fast due to dried manure. Not sure what the comment about it being slow relates to or how the poster determined it was breaking down slow in the first place. You can run a grow on biotone.



I picked up a container of mike for tress and shrubs. has plenty of G. intraradices
 

Scrappy4

senior member
Veteran
I've used plant tone (5-3-3) my last two veg cycles. It gives me nice growth, and lasts for the 6-7 weeks in 2 gallon pots....I like it enough that I bought some for my veggie garden......scrappy
 
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