Espoma Garden-tone for outdoor?

[thetreeman]

Thinking about using this for an outdoor grow next summer. Will be growing medium to large autos in holes drilled with 8" gas powered auger, 2 feet deep. Total volume of 5 gallons or 20 liters/ hole. How much would be appropriate to add / hole when backfilling? I was thinking about using 1 cup/hole...

Total Nitrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0%
0.2%. . . . Ammoniacal Nitrogen
0.6%. . . . Water Soluble Nitrogen
2.2%. . . . Water Insoluble Nitrogen
Available Phosphate (P2O5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.0%
Soluble Potash (K2O). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.0%
Calcium (Ca) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0%
Magnesium (Mg). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.0%
0.7%. . . . Water Soluble Magnesium
Sulfur (S). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.0%
Derived from: Hydrolyzed Feather Meal, Pasteurized Poultry
Manure, Bone Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Greensand, Humates,
Sulfate of Potash, and Sulfate of Potash Magnesia.
*Contains 2.2% Slow Release Nitrogen.
ALSO CONTAINS NON PLANT FOOD INGREDIENTS:
Contains 624 colony forming units (CFU’s) per gram of the
following species:
Bacillus licheniformis . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 CFU’s per gram
Bacillus megaterium. . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 CFU’s per gram
Bacillus pumilus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 CFU’s per gram

 

[Iamthewitness]

I used this fertilizer in my veggie garden, for my tobacco plants and also a little bit for my cannabis plants and was happpy with the results, especially my zucchini plant(it was a monsterLOL), prolly didn't answer question but i can vouch that it is a good product.

 

[Another One Bites the Dust1]

I used Espoma Garden-tone and Espoma Flower-tone on some photos I grew outdoors this past season with outstanding results.
I will use it again next year, but I can't tell you how much you should use for autos in 5 gallon holes.

I added 1.5 - 2 cups every 2 weeks, but these were in 50 gallon smart pots, and again they were photos and not autos. I will however be using some on a few autos next year, and run them side by side with my TLO/supersoil mix.

Hope this helps somewhat.

Peace.

 

[thetreeman]

This is what Im considering adding / hole.
2 cups composted rabbit manure
1 cup Garden Tone
1/2 cup used coffee grounds
1 gallon sphagnum peat

I have a very sedimentary type soil here and dont think adding lime is necessary. Average PH here is around 8.0

 

[Eyes on Fire]

outdoors Id personally use composted and fresh rabbit droppings,frass and lime.other than that your mix is fine imo.but fresh rabbit balls are effectively a seperate fert from fresh to composted and act differently.but outdoors you really want fresh imo along with composted,lime for leaching of the soil imo too would be a nice and failr cheap self assurance of a successful grow along with genetics enhancment and insect protection of the roots,leaves n thing outdoors is paramount in my eyes.so find something similar to this effect if you can afford a 1/2 pound bag of frass.its pretty cheap n will last a good bit if used properly too.ammaned with soil and as a drench too if you incur any issues with genetics anomalies and/or pests,fungi n so on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_immune_system

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Members of every class of pathogen that infect humans also infect plants. Although the exact pathogenic species vary with the infected species, bacteria, fungi, viruses, nematodes, and insects can all cause plant disease. As with animals, plants attacked by insects or other pathogens use a set of complex metabolic responses that lead to the formation of defensive chemical compounds that fight infection or make the plant less attractive to insects and other herbivores.[SUP][29][/SUP] (see: plant defense against herbivory).
Like invertebrates, plants neither generate antibody or T-cell responses nor possess mobile cells that detect and attack pathogens. In addition, in case of infection, parts of some plants are treated as disposable and replaceable, in ways that very few animals are able to do. Walling off or discarding a part of a plant helps stop spread of an infection.[SUP][29][/SUP]
Most plant immune responses involve systemic chemical signals sent throughout a plant. Plants use pattern-recognition receptors to recognize conserved microbial signatures. This recognition triggers an immune response. The first plant receptors of conserved microbial signatures were identified in rice (XA21, 1995)[SUP][30][/SUP][SUP][31][/SUP] and in Arabidopsis (FLS2, 2000).[SUP][32][/SUP]Plants also carry immune receptors that recognize highly variable pathogen effectors. These include the NBS-LRR class of proteins. When a part of a plant becomes infected with a microbial or viral pathogen, in case of an incompatible interactiontriggered by specific elicitors, the plant produces a localized hypersensitive response (HR), in which cells at the site of infection undergo rapid programmed cell death to prevent the spread of the disease to other parts of the plant. HR has some similarities to animal pyroptosis, such as a requirement of caspase-1-like proteolytic activity of VPEγ, a cysteine protease that regulates cell disassembly during cell death.[SUP][33][/SUP]
"Resistance" (R) proteins, encoded by R genes, are widely present in plants and detect pathogens. These proteins contain domains similar to the NOD Like Receptors and Toll-like receptors utilized in animal innate immunity. Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a type of defensive response that renders the entire plant resistant to a broad spectrum of infectious agents.[SUP][34][/SUP] SAR involves the production of chemical messengers, such as salicylic acid or jasmonic acid. Some of these travel through the plant and signal other cells to produce defensive compounds to protect uninfected parts, e.g., leaves.[SUP][35][/SUP]Salicylic acid itself, although indispensable for expression of SAR, is not the translocated signal responsible for the systemic response. Recent evidence indicates a role for jasmonates in transmission of the signal to distal portions of the plant. RNA silencing mechanisms are also important in the plant systemic response, as they can block virus replication.[SUP][36][/SUP] Thejasmonic acid response, is stimulated in leaves damaged by insects, and involves the production of methyl jasmonate.[SUP][29][/SUP]

 

[Iamthewitness]

lets say i got some fresh rabbit poo, are u saying that if i say top dressed some rabbit droppings in my containers for outdoors that would be a good thing? One of my moms friends has a rabbit and they feed it good stuff so i might be able to get some

 

[Iamthewitness]

nevermind, i quick search on google answered my question. excited for some rabbit poop, lol

 

[Another One Bites the Dust1]

Rabbit poop ROCKS!

Peace and safety!