Laidbackdood, where did you find the organic 10-4-6 fert? Online or locally in NZ? What is the name of it? If I can find some online I would love to get some!

Lydia

There were two types both organic produced in new zealand. One is
called "bio gold" which is a mix of blood and bone and seaweed which is
10/4/6 plus trace elements .you can smell the sea in this one!Contains natural growth premotents.
The other is made by "Tui" and is called "Garden Galore" made from fortified
blood and bone and organic plant extracts.plus all essential trace elements.
10/4/7. also contains gibberelllic acid.
Both can be used over foliage as well. Seaweed is good.
both of the above can feed all your plants as well as indoor or outdoor
containers.
tui garden products should have a website.

I have recently swithed to http://www.vigoro.com/ProductCategories/GardenFertilizers/PremiumCitrusAvocadoFood/ from Osmocote. So far very good results...

Laaz:
I did not see any trace elements on them. Do they?

Benny yes it does have minors as well.

12-5-8

Minors:

Mg = 1.0%
S = 8.5
B = .02
Cu = .05
Fe = 1.0
Mn = .05
plus Mo

Good!
I am going to start looking for it.
Thanks!
Benny

Benny most Home depot's sell it

Thanks again. BTW is Mn Magnesium or Manganese? Oh, Mg is Magnesium, right? I am confused now. I guess Mn is Manganese then.
And Mo is Molybdenum. Right?
I know Cu is copper and Fe is Iron.

Hi Benny.

Magnesium = Mg

Manganese = Mn

when I was in high school, I learned to memorize the whole periodic table, including latin names of various elements. Now, I can only reconstruct 80% of the table from memory. I have severe data corruption in my head!

Laidback, you want to be very careful spraying gibberillic acid on citrus foliage. - Millet

Millet is correct. I believe we discussed this in the past. Dr. Manners also stated that too much gibberillic acid can cause the tree to revert back to a juvenil state.

Ive seen the Vigoro at the HD around here too. Id like to mix something up organic that would work well.....

Someone else in the UK. This is great!

The pots definately look like they are from Global Orange Groves. You can order them direct from the website and some Garden centres stock them (but I find this stuff does look as though it solidifies or 'goes off' if kept for long as I suspect it would from a Garden Centre. So best order direct and give a specailist nursery much needed income) They do a winter variety to be used Oct - April and Summer variety the rest of the time. The strenghts of chemicals in them vary and are designed to suit the growing habits of Citrus in the UK e.g. pretty dormant in Winter therefore taking up less water/feed and needing less strength of fertiliser.

http://www.globalorangegroves.co.uk/

Or try from this site. There fertiliser is designed to be used all year around. It similar to the Global Orange Groves - some 'ingredients' are stronger in one that the other. But true to form for this site/nusery, it's expensive.

http://www.citruscentre.co.uk/index.html

I've used the Global Orange Groves on 2 trees - Washington Navel and Verna lemons and the Citrus Centre fertiliser on Limes. The Limes get quite a lot of blossom and fruit. The Washington had some blossom last year and about 8 fruits, it's been pruned this year and now has masses of new growth. The lemon was pruned last year and has just started getting a lot of new shoots but not much blossom (due to pruning ?)

I guess I'm saying that both of these are good and seem to work ok (with the right compost?) So on price alone I'd go with Global Orange Groves.

I'll see if I can check the exact difference between the 2 types.

Nick

Hi everyone
Can a few people post a pic or 2 of there Citrus food labels here, so we can compare with what we have got.
Plus we can then go and try to find something near the same eg: 5-5-3

Nice one M8s