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Hello Bryan!
I got mine from AMA plastic, in Canada! Here`s what they have: Claude Thank you for your interest in A.M.A. Plastics Ltd. Are you referring to the Orchid Special fertilizer developed in conjunction with MSU? If so, we have two types available: - one is for well water 19-4-23 - one is for RO (reverse osmosis) water 13-3-15 RO Special Both are $49.00 per bag + shipping. If you are interested in ordering, please send us your name, shipping address and phone/fax number and how many you would like to order. We will contact you to obtain a credit card payment. We accept Visa and Mastercard. Best regards, Connie Bradt www.amaplas.com "Bryan" wrote in message news:Qrp2f.147033$tl2.84344@pd7tw3no... | Thanks for the reply folks. I think I am going to give the MSU a try. It is | a bit hard to find in Canada. I did find a source on Ebay, and it is mfg by | the "Blackmore Comany", if that means anything. | | Ray: | | That pic of the Inobulbon munificum. is beautiful and stunning to say the | least. | | Cheers | | | | "Ray" wrote in message | ... | I have been using the GreenCare RO-water version since April of 2003. It | is designed to be used at 125 ppm N for continuous feeding (i.e., at every | watering). For about the first three- or four months, I used it at about | half that concentration, but ever since I decided to simply go with the | stated rate. | | Since using it, I see faster growth, larger plants - including phals, | paphs and phrags with more leaves - and more reliable blooming. Most of | my vandaceous plants bloom at least twice a year, many three times, when | they were only annual bloomers previously. | | Of most significance to me was the fact that several plants that had done | essentially nothing for extended periods of time sprang back to active | growth several months into this period. For example, I managed to "fry" | an Encyclia atrorubens when recovering the greenhouse. The pseudobulbs | were plump and green, but there were no leaves. For close to two years it | stayed that way - not desiccating, but no new growth. About two months | after starting with the fertilizing regime, a new growth sprang to life, | and it has grown and bloomed reliably ever since. I had a similar result | with Inobulbon munificum. It grew very slowly and never carried more than | one new pseudobulb to maturity before the last would start to wither, and | no blooming. After about a year or so under 'the treatment" it bloomed | (photo at a.b.p.o), and has been growing bigger each year. | | Don't get me wrong. I do not think the MSU stuff is "magic." I switched | from using Dyna-Gro "Grow" formula at about 75 ppm N, so a lot of the | increased vigor could be merely due to increasing the feeding rate. The | use of the RO formula also saves me from making adjustments. Using D-G in | RO gives an exceedingly acidic pH, so it was necessary to make an | adjustment before feeding, and I did so with Pro-TeKt. With the size of | my collection, I feed via a dosing pump, and one cannot add "Grow" and | Pro-TeKt concentrates to the same tank, or all kinds of minerals will | precipitate. I, therefore, had to have two dosing pumps, monitor the | outputs of each, and verify the pH of the output.. With the GreenCare MSU | formula, I mix the powder in one tank and I'm ready to water. | | I do believe that the formulation has an advantage with lower phosphorus. | The plants don't need all that much, so there is less being dumped into | the environment to potentially cause eutrification in ponds. The | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (among other states, and all of Canada, I | believe) are starting to monitor and regulate phosphate waste in | agriculture, so it's nice to know that I'm contributing less to the | problem. (I am aware of a drive for phosphate reduction in oil drilling | muds in Canada, so I assume the ag part is there, are will be.) | | -- | | Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com | Plants, Supplies, Artwork, Books and Lots of Free Info! | | | "Bryan" wrote in message | news:rD32f.118984$1i.74537@pd7tw2no... | Hello: | | Anybody using MSU fertilizer care to comment on it's effectiveness etc... | | -=Bryan=- | | | | | | |
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