2023 "Field of Dreams"

@FieldEffect unless you already have the craft blend, or if you just wanna try something different, this is a fantastic and cheap organic fertilizer that’s easy to find pretty much anywhere in a hardware or garden center, it’s loaded up on calcium and sulfur like we want for stanky buds and it smells like hell so you know it’s good! Just needs some Epsom waterings to balance out the 2:1 cal:mag ideal ratio I keep hearing people talk about.

There’s also this starter fertilizer with a bunch of mycos and more soluble nitrogen and magnesium immediately available:

I grabbed some of this stuff and an 8lb bag of Plant-Tone that was on sale at Walmart.com for like $1.10/lb. These two and the Tomato-Tone are my outdoor garden fertilizer plan for the summer, I’ll use them in the tent but only composted into dirt or brewed into compost teas, too stinky for indoor topdressing. I use Coast of Maine Stonington Blend and Fish Bone Meal for indoor topdressing. Can’t fault those folks at all, but it’s hard to match the breadth of the Espoma product line, they make a TON of things in that old South Jersey factory, from the legendary blends and then single ingredients and soils and now liquid nutes too! All for pennies compared to any cannabis-specific organic fertilizers. They were pushing mycos and bacillus before almost anyone knew what they were, and put them in almost every product as “Myco-Tone” or “Bio-Tone”, respectively.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Espoma-BTSP8-Organic-4-3-3-BioTone-Starter-Plus-Fertilizer-8-lb/46855929

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Espoma-Organic-Plant-Tone-All-Purpose-Plant-Food-5-3-3-Fertilizer-8-lb/33579009?athbdg=L1100

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Espoma-Organic-Tomato-Tone-Vegetable-Food-3-4-6-Fertilizer-8-lb/20850611

You could get all three shipped to you, 24# total, for about $70. Definitely a lot more fertilizer than an equivalent bag from BAS.

EDIT: actually the 25# Craft Blend bucket for $100 shipped isn’t a bad deal but it’a a fixed 3-5-2 vs 3.6-4-3.3 averaged of the Espoma. So fairly comparable but $30 more and less flexible. That said, sort of totally different inputs, and they’d probably play together really nicely with that wide variety. I really bank on diversity in my inputs and it seems to work pretty good.

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