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[IBC] Fertilizer, Brents article
Jim Lewis wrote:
Big snip So READ IT! And then, I know you'll all keep on doing what you've always done. ;-) Yes a very good article. One paragraph however caught my attention: "From my experience I do not see any benefit to feeding more frequently than once every two weeks. This is a standard nursery practice for soluble fertilizers. Fertilizing more often than this will require more dilute solution and will waste more material as the excess spills to the ground each time. It is also more work to prepare the solutions more frequently. Although I don't have any evidence to prove it yet, it is my suspicion that fertilizers may be more effective when applied at the higher rates at the less frequent intervals. Every other week seems to be a verygood period." This goes against a test at the Agricultural University here in Sweden. They got better results when feedeing a little more often. The fertilizer was a regular houseplant fertilizer ( I can try to find the exact specifiations) and they had best results when the plants where fed with 1-2 ml fertilizer to 1 liter of water every day. This has become almost a standard practice among Swedish bonsai growers (besides me who is lazy and use Biogold). Henrik Gistvall, Uppsala, Sweden ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Boon Manakitivipart++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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On 24 Nov 2004 at 22:44, Henrik Gistvall wrote:
This goes against a test at the Agricultural University here in Sweden. They got better results when feedeing a little more often. The fertilizer was a regular houseplant fertilizer ( I can try to find the exact specifiations) and they had best results when the plants where fed with 1-2 ml fertilizer to 1 liter of water every day. This has become almost a standard practice among Swedish bonsai growers (besides me who is lazy and use Biogold). There is, of course, a big difference between the climate and growing season in Sweden and northern California. ;-) We always need to take those kinds of differences into account. Then, there's the probably difference in the soils you use and the soils Brent uses. Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Bonsaiests are like genealogists: We know our roots! ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Boon Manakitivipart++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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Of course but these tests are made in a lab. And the soil aspect if
probably a bigger difference. But the inert soil that we use doesn´t hold on to nutrients. This would be even more of a reason to fertilize more often. By diluting the fertilizer so that the tree got its "daily dose", rather than two weeks worth of nutrient at one time, improved the growth. Henrik Gistvall, Uppsala, Sweden Jim Lewis wrote: On 24 Nov 2004 at 22:44, Henrik Gistvall wrote: This goes against a test at the Agricultural University here in Sweden. They got better results when feedeing a little more often. The fertilizer was a regular houseplant fertilizer ( I can try to find the exact specifiations) and they had best results when the plants where fed with 1-2 ml fertilizer to 1 liter of water every day. This has become almost a standard practice among Swedish bonsai growers (besides me who is lazy and use Biogold). There is, of course, a big difference between the climate and growing season in Sweden and northern California. ;-) We always need to take those kinds of differences into account. Then, there's the probably difference in the soils you use and the soils Brent uses. Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Bonsaiests are like genealogists: We know our roots! ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Boon Manakitivipart++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Boon Manakitivipart++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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