Hope it works as you expect Jim.

John, when you run out of Lily Miller let me know.
I'm sure I'll still have tons of this stuff.

Doubt the shipper in White Plains NY will make the same "$20.00 shipping" mistake a second time.
I asked for "price for shipping to B.C."
They must've thought D.C.

Two 2-gallon jugs across an entire continent, weighing about 50 pounds, for 20 bucks.

Barb

Forgot to mention... I DID find food finally at a good price, at the dollar store of all places. It's Rose and Flower food, and the numbers are 12-4-8, and it seems to be working very well. In just 3 days, the tree looks MUCH better.

Glad you found some fertilizer.
See if you can find a package of "chelated trace minerals"...use sparingly, but use it!

Someone else--I think it was Steve--also found fertilizer at the dollar store.
Great find!

Look forward to seeing it grow this summer.

Barb

Hey Everyone - glad I found this thread, so I should chime in here regarding the epsom salts.....YIKES I put 4 TBSP diluted around each Trachy today!! 😳 For some reason I thought it was that much, I hope they're going to be okay. I am using the Miracle Grow water soluble 24-8-16 with micro-nutrients, although it does not contain any Magnesium (hence the epsom salts overload!! lol) Like Jim I also use the Potassium 0-0-50 in the fall, but haven't used it yet this spring so I'll try that too (thanks Jim!) Also thanks for the great info Barb... over the winter everything seems to escape my memory and I'm left wondering by spring how to fertilize. (This IS my second year as a newbie!) 😀

Heidi

Heidi from what others have done, 4 tbsp epsom salts is still LIGHT.
Barb

Barb,
from another (like Heidi) newbie, thanks! I haven't done the epsom salts thing yet.
I tend to worry about overdoing fertilizer.
Also, my local nursery stocks the 0-0-60 potassium Jim mentioned above. Anyone know how much of that to use, and when?
--Erik

Whew, thanks Barb. Erik I just sprinkle about a handful size of the 0-0-50 potassium, as I'm really not sure of how much myself!

Heidi

Whew, thanks Barb. Erik I just sprinkle about a handful size of the 0-0-50 potassium, as I'm really not sure of how much myself!

Heidi

Sounds about right/or a tablespoon per gallon.

Thanks Jim 😀

I use this stuff, organic and local in SOuth Jersey. The only drawback is that our dogs love and eat the soil esp when it is in pots in the winter time.... in the house. They make it for all types of flowers and plants and it is slow release, organic and the least wasteful of any product i have ever used i think.

http://www.acehardwaresuperstore.com/espoma-palmtone-plant-food-p-95014.html?ref=42

http://www.espoma.com/index.cfm

Mike,
Your dogs ate it? Must have bone or blood meal in it.
Drives 'em nuts, my dog too.

Barb

If it's not the dogs it's the chickens. One or the other is always digging up the surface roots of my palms!
Or I water the palms and they want to lay in the cool soil. --Erik

Last year my neighbor had some chickens(the "man" made her get rid of them),
they picked at everything!
I mean everything,they used to eat fertilizer pellets off the ground,I was like,hmmm
how good would that taste and,do you have a tummy ache you stupid little birdies? 😀 😈

It was kind of amusing 😯

You want amusing?
I planted a Brugmansia last year. Those chickens who tried eating it got higher than any chicken ever flew. 😆
They are leaving it alone this year. --Erik

They survived eating Brugs?
isn't that devil's trumpet?
😈
Glad they survived.