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Device for fertilizing lilies
Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made
from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize without getting IN the pond? Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer. All my old links are dead. Anyone have current information? Thanks! |
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Device for fertilizing lilies
May I offer a new/different idea? One of the members of my local "club"
takes a piece of pvc pipe and drills the bottom end full of holes and puts it in his lily pots when he transplants. I think he said he uses 1" . . . the pipe is about 12" above the pot surface (and maybe 6" below), and he stuffs it full of fertlizer, then puts a PVC cap on the top to prevent the fertilizer from backflowing into the pond (you can paint it black, if you want to). It feeds his lilies for the whole season without the algae-inducing "rush" when plants just have a pellet or two shoved under the surface of the dirt. He swears by it! And it works a lot easier than the tool you're thinking of. That one works fine in the beginning of the season, but as the plant grows and the pot becomes root bound, it gets harder and harder to jam that fertlizer into the pot. For a cheap lily fertilizer, buy generic fruit tree spikes and cut them into little pieces. Alternatively, if you can find them, Jobe's Tomato Spikes also work. Hope this helps. Lee "K" wrote in message om... Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize without getting IN the pond? Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer. All my old links are dead. Anyone have current information? Thanks! |
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Device for fertilizing lilies
Sorry 'bout that: I never answered your original question. I think this is
what you meant: http://www.perigee.net/~jrjohns/web20.html Lee "K" wrote in message om... Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize without getting IN the pond? Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer. All my old links are dead. Anyone have current information? Thanks! |
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Device for fertilizing lilies
Excellent idea! I might be tempted to just put in one tab at a time, but
this works for me. I'm always concerned that when I shove/stomp on a fert. tab that I might be breaking roots apart. -- Wendy* in N. California, "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -- Mark Twain "Lee Brouillet" wrote in message ... May I offer a new/different idea? One of the members of my local "club" takes a piece of pvc pipe and drills the bottom end full of holes and puts it in his lily pots when he transplants. I think he said he uses 1" . . . the pipe is about 12" above the pot surface (and maybe 6" below), and he stuffs it full of fertlizer, then puts a PVC cap on the top to prevent the fertilizer from backflowing into the pond (you can paint it black, if you want to). It feeds his lilies for the whole season without the algae-inducing "rush" when plants just have a pellet or two shoved under the surface of the dirt. He swears by it! And it works a lot easier than the tool you're thinking of. That one works fine in the beginning of the season, but as the plant grows and the pot becomes root bound, it gets harder and harder to jam that fertlizer into the pot. For a cheap lily fertilizer, buy generic fruit tree spikes and cut them into little pieces. Alternatively, if you can find them, Jobe's Tomato Spikes also work. Hope this helps. Lee "K" wrote in message om... Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize without getting IN the pond? Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer. All my old links are dead. Anyone have current information? Thanks! |
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Device for fertilizing lilies
I've been using Akwatiks - the commercial version of what's
described below. After finding them plugged with months-old undissolved tabs I did some experiments with different brands of lily tabs. I placed each in an identical glass of DI water and waited for them to dissolve... Plantabbs Pondtabbs and Pondlife Showlilies appear identical in appearance and label analysis. These dissolved the most completely and left the water the most clear. Jungle Aquatic Plant Food left more solids, clouded the water the most, and developed a scum film and mold on the water surface. AgSafe Aquatic Tabs dissolved the least, leaving a lot of solids. Steve J. Noll | Ventura California Glass Block Pond http://www.kissingfrogs.tv Pond Dealer Directory http://www.kissingfrogs.tv/ponddirectory.html On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 02:47:39 GMT, "Wendy Kelly Budd" wrote: Excellent idea! I might be tempted to just put in one tab at a time, but this works for me. I'm always concerned that when I shove/stomp on a fert. tab that I might be breaking roots apart. -- Wendy* in N. California, "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -- Mark Twain "Lee Brouillet" wrote in message ... May I offer a new/different idea? One of the members of my local "club" takes a piece of pvc pipe and drills the bottom end full of holes and puts it in his lily pots when he transplants. I think he said he uses 1" . . . the pipe is about 12" above the pot surface (and maybe 6" below), and he stuffs it full of fertlizer, then puts a PVC cap on the top to prevent the fertilizer from backflowing into the pond (you can paint it black, if you want to). It feeds his lilies for the whole season without the algae-inducing "rush" when plants just have a pellet or two shoved under the surface of the dirt. He swears by it! And it works a lot easier than the tool you're thinking of. That one works fine in the beginning of the season, but as the plant grows and the pot becomes root bound, it gets harder and harder to jam that fertlizer into the pot. For a cheap lily fertilizer, buy generic fruit tree spikes and cut them into little pieces. Alternatively, if you can find them, Jobe's Tomato Spikes also work. Hope this helps. Lee "K" wrote in message om... Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize without getting IN the pond? Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer. All my old links are dead. Anyone have current information? Thanks! |
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Device for fertilizing lilies
I like it! I use Plantabbs. On a simular note, I had a lily that I
purchased from a local nursery. Three years later when I went to replant the lily, I found lots of fertilizer still not dissolved in the soil. It was that blue/green granular fertilizer that commercial growers use. Alot of good they were doing. -- Wendy* in N. California, "Waste not - Want not" "Steve J. Noll" wrote in message ... I've been using Akwatiks - the commercial version of what's described below. After finding them plugged with months-old undissolved tabs I did some experiments with different brands of lily tabs. I placed each in an identical glass of DI water and waited for them to dissolve... Plantabbs Pondtabbs and Pondlife Showlilies appear identical in appearance and label analysis. These dissolved the most completely and left the water the most clear. Jungle Aquatic Plant Food left more solids, clouded the water the most, and developed a scum film and mold on the water surface. AgSafe Aquatic Tabs dissolved the least, leaving a lot of solids. Steve J. Noll | Ventura California Glass Block Pond http://www.kissingfrogs.tv Pond Dealer Directory http://www.kissingfrogs.tv/ponddirectory.html om... Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize without getting IN the pond? Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer. All my old links are dead. Anyone have current information? Thanks! |
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Device for fertilizing lilies
"Lee Brouillet" wrote in message ...
May I offer a new/different idea? Hey, that's a great idea! Thanks! |
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