What is the go-to-tried-n-true water soluble in season faves?

And does anyone know the difference between Alaska Fish Fertilizer ($20.88) and Alaska Plant Food ($29.97) other than the price?

The Gotch

I love Urban Farms fertilizers. I use the Veggie and TTF plus the Apples and Oranges as supplemental in the orchard.

So weird that there are two labels and prices for what looks like the exact same product. Lowes is even mixing and matching the names…

From what I read, some products are made with fish harvested for that purpose, which is way different than the common conception of it being made with waste products.

Of course, when made from an invasive species which is caught and killed for this very purpose, the product would be a lot more environmentally friendly:
https://captaincarpfertilizer.com/about-us/

(I just now found that link and have not tried their products.)

Most of the liquid fish fertilizer out there is good for growth, but I haven't seen many that are more for blooming and fruiting. However, though I haven't bought any, I have seen liquid bat guano with much higher P and K numbers than the N, which is what you'd want, and, like fish fertilizer, has just about everything else in it.

We have Charlie Carp here in Australia, a well known and respected user of European carp as fertilizer. They will only consider themselves a complete success when they have used up all of their main raw ingredient

I use Neptune’s Harvest Rose and Flower liquid as it is 2-6-4 so has a high middle number. Also use various granular fertilizers designed for tomatoes when I plant. Worm castings are the main manure source.

My favorite is Agro-Thrive. I also use fish emulsion (Alaska Fish Fertilizer) off and on.

I mainly use Osmocote these day which is synthetic, but if I didn't my next choice would be Bio-Live, it have a good variety of different natural sources in one, also unlike the more popular brands it doesn't have chicken compost (poultry manure). Or you can go for Down to Earth All Natural which is a bit cheaper.

I've been using KNO3 for years with astounding results. But pretty sure it's not OMRI approved.

Uncle_Feist wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 7:29 am I've been using KNO3 for years with astounding results. But pretty sure it's not OMRI approved.

You's have a link for that? Herr Google didn't.

The Gotch

Good question @Cornelius_Gotchberg
I have been fiddling with master blend or fish emulsion that being said I still don’t know how to dose the indoor plants right I seem to be over fertilizing or not enough one plant likes the other don’t so I got worm castings!! I did buy those garden almanac spikes for veggies and put it in my tomato pot but after 2 days the leaves were dying plants looked sick not shure if it was that they have had only worm castings

Cole_Robbie wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 6:18 pm From what I read, some products are made with fish harvested for that purpose, which is way different than the common conception of it being made with waste products.

Of course, when made from an invasive species which is caught and killed for this very purpose, the product would be a lot more environmentally friendly:
https://captaincarpfertilizer.com/about-us/

(I just now found that link and have not tried their products.)

That seems to be resolving but real slow.
There was a place on the Miss, St Louis or so that taking carp and silver carp and paying so much per pound. So for bowfishing trips it could at least pay for some of the gas if you came in with a barrel of fish. It was like a quarter a pound or something. That was, probably more than 10 years back. It was convenient if you were real close, but then, you didn't get to keep them for using them yourself. Silver and Bighead are the "new" asian carp that are the "new" problem, but the common carp we have are from the same place. Just look at the old art and you can see them. Common (german) carp were brought west to Germany by monks and such back in marco polo time. And then onto the North America for cheap lumberjack food. They are as invasive as it gets. They destroy the gravel bottoms and make silt and mud instead. And now we have snakeheads too. Yay. Aggressive fish with teeth instead of bass or catfish! What fun.

There are probably some bowfishermen nearby where anyone lives, it is just a matter of working out a good compost system to give them a place to go with the fish. Wood chips will lock the smell in, and it ain't $30 a bag.

Whwoz wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 3:25 am We have Charlie Carp here in Australia, a well known and respected user of European carp as fertilizer. They will only consider themselves a complete success when they have used up all of their main raw ingredient

Have to throw some rabbits in there too...yeah its gonna be one homogenous world at some point, all the invasives spread around everywhere. Then we we'll get new stuff coming in from space.