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Old March 23, 2012   #1
TnMurph
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Default Need to know best way to use Bio-Tone and Garden-Tone

Thanks to the heads up from a thread on the cheap shipping for fertilizers at Ozbo.com, I have a 25# bag of Bio-Tone Starter Plus and a 40# bag of Garden-Tone. My seedlings are getting big and the lows hardly ever get below 50, so I want to get them in the ground soon. How do you think would be the best way to use my fertilizers during initial planting in the garden?

I am also about to up-pot a group of seedlings and would like to use the Bio-Tone in the soil-less medium to get the best growth rate out of the seedlings.

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Old March 28, 2012   #2
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I do not have mass scale measurements, but I have used fertilizers like
Bio-tone at the rate of "a pinch" in a 3" pot when potting up and got good
results. You could measure out a gallon of soilless mix, see how many
3" pots that fills up, then see what volume that same number of pinches
of fertilizer amounts to, and get an estimate for how much Bio-tone to
mix per gallon of soilless mix.

For the Tomato-tone, the bag says 9 cups per 50 sq feet, worked into
the top 4-6 inches of soil, then one cup each side per 5' of row twice
a month during the growing season. If you want to do it per plant, it
says 3 tablespoons per plant on the same schedule.

I usually do handfuls: a handful in the planting hole, mixed in; another
handful top-dressed in a little circle about 6" out from the plant, cultivated
into the top few inches of soil; another handful scattered under the plant
when they start to set fruit. (I run out of growing season up here before
they need more.)
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