Miracle Grow safe?
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Miracle Grow & copper
Comments (3)Hi Al! I tried googling tebuconazole to find out which products contained it & I don't recognize any of the products. Can you recommend one that I could find easily? I also checked into Dyna gro & it appears to have copper in it as well. Do all ferts have copper in them? I was also wondering (before this even happened) is how long of a residual effect Miracle Grow has, how long it stays suspended in the soil before it is completely washed out. I know watering is a factor & if I water every day like I do, how long will Miracle Grow stay in the soil?...See MoreMiracle Grow Rose food safe for veggies?
Comments (1)Yes. It is just a different formulation of the same things found in the other MG products. Dave...See MoreMiracle grow leaf shine
Comments (5)i cant grow crypto in z5 ... extremely borderline ... I THOUGHT they were zone appropriate for z6 ... if they are .. then the issue is 'establishment' .. rather than dessication .... meaning.. it will continue to burn until it has a root mass sufficient to overcome the effects of winter ... spraying something on is not going to get the plant established ... how long has the plant been in situ ...??? i starting growing conifers for one simple reason .. after full establishment.. they do not need anything but a little water in drought ... i NEVER fertilize.. and i would NEVER consider spraying anything on them ... and never amend a planting hole .. they are meant to be COMPLETELY carefree ... IF zone appropriate.. and properly ESTABLISHED .... i like to use the term.. killing them with too much love.. and your suggestion of a topical spray .. MIGHT be moving in said direction ... in the alternative.. if you are zone pushing ... then you are on your own .. lol.. i dont do such.. and i dont know any tricks ... good luck ... there is always the first person to try something new ... who then becomes the resident expert... so if you have no options left .. go for it ... ken...See MoreIs Miracle Grow Safe?
Comments (13)Hi Bob, I'm gonna do the same thing here that I did on another of your threads---link to a past thread where I did a dissertation on "my thoughts" on fertilizers, and my opinion of Miracle Grow--which pretty much anybody who's been around here for a few years already knows. This won't make sense till after you read my 05.01.09 post on the linked thread---but...... Sometime after I posted that I decided to compare the Peter's soluble that I bought AFTER MG had bought the product (but before I KNEW they had bought it), to Jack's Classic which is the same stuff that Peter's USED to be before MG bought it. Same analysis, and presumably the same stuff! Put water in two containers and added a teaspoon of each to one of the containers. Waited! The Jack's Classic dissolved almost immediately--the Miracle Grow version of Peter's, not so fast! After letting them sit for "a while" (I think it was at least ten minutes), the MG version of Peter's still had undissolved "particles" in the bottom of the container---the Jack's Classic dissolved completely! Since I don't have any way to test the actual analysis of anything, that's about all the testing I could do, but if you're using a "soluble" fertilizer--and it isn't "soluble-izing"--uh--something's wrong! This is strictly personal opinion, but I don't use MG anything! I tried--really, really hard--one time to find out what was "in" their "soil mixes" and I couldn't find ANY information--anywhere! Online OR on any of the packages! Don't know if that's changed or not, but I doubt it! If a company won't tell me what it is that I'm buying---I don't buy it! From everything I could find back whenever it was that I tried researching their products, everybody seemed to be getting something different! My--ongoing--impression is that they put whatever in their bags that they happen to have at the moment--which would explain why they don't (can't) list the ingredients on the bags. I find it unlikely that they'd do anything differently with their fertilizers. I'm sure other folks around here have used or currently use their products and are quite satisfied with them. I tend to go with: If it works, don't knock it! BUT, with an inconsistent product, you never know what you'll get the "next" time you buy it! And, also IMO, their stuff is WAY overpriced! For potting soils you can get a good--and consistent--mix for considerably less, and for fertilizer, while Jack's Classic is pretty expensive, I doubt that it's much--if any--more than MG. I was just over to Timberline last week and found out that Kelly uses Jack's in his injector. Paulino's used to use Peter's in their injector, and I feel pretty certain they now use Jacks, and my brother, in Illinois uses Jack's in his greenhouses now too. I, personally, have never heard of a commercial operation that used MG products (soils OR fertilizers) in their plant production. Seems to me that says something. I VERY rarely feed anything in the ground outside, as long as things are looking ok I go with the--cheaper--hands off approach, but when I do I use Jack's Classic "all purpose" (which is 20-20-20) the same as I do for my inside stuff or anything I have outside in pots. It's always worked well for me so I'll keep on keepin' on! I vary the strength, depending on what I'm using it for, but it's been a LONG time since I've used anything else. When I was just at Timberline I ordered a 20 lb. bag of it---which will, hopefully, last me the rest of my life!!! The link I put in the below post didn't work for me anymore, so if you want to check out what it is I'm talking about, here's some info about Jack's Classic fertilizers. Their history page used to tell all about "selling" their "original" Peter's to MG and how they started producing it again as Jack's when MG "messed" with it, but they leave all that part of the story out now. To the best of my knowledge there is no longer ANY fertilizer available under the name Peter's! All just my opinion! Nice to know we can agree to disagree here on RMG without anybody getting in a snit about it! :-) Skybird Here is a link that might be useful: See 05.01.09 post!...See Morerobynpa
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