Results are good, and my plants' growth seems more vigorous. I'll keep y'all posted. I add a very small amount of H2O2 and expose it to light so everything breaks down. MaxSea is a kelp-based fertilizer that is safe for use with most carnivorous plants when diluted in concentration from the typical recipe and used as a foliar feeder (meaning you only spray it on the leaves and lightly in pitchers). product that I learned from is called Aquaponics4you. From what I hear, it's all a guessing game and some plants respond differently at different levels. Unfortunately, I have been gardening for over 24 years and I have only Directions for use: Tear open package and measure out one level scoop of fertilizer with the provided scoop. solution for reducing expenses (as much as possible), reducing the total operating expense. &Y7|y>& If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. I use 1/4 teaspoon per gallon of water (sorry for you metric users). Good someone found a way to locate it in Europe? You will receive one 3" x 5" resealable craft bag containing 3 Tablespoons of fertilizer and a scoop that measures 1/4 of a teaspoon, the appropriate amount for fertilizing carnivorous plants. I could not find the guaranteed analysis of maxsea. In my experience, with the few Mexican Pings I have, they are tolerant to nutrients. tj@E . . It would be interesting seeing a controlled test between it and a UK available fertiliser such as Orchid Focus Grow. If I make a spray bottle of it, does it keep well at room temp when mixed with water? Very satisfied! I've recently pulled the trigger on picking up some maxsea, and have been trying to do some quick calculations on what the reading should be in ppm.

I produced more high quality compost in just one week than I was able to use in a whole While I'm on the topic of foliar feeding, has anyone tried to add a little GA3 to the solution? Tds I really only use in reference to the concentrate and the dilution to confirm my ratios are correct. The I am going to use it on my Venus Flytraps. possible.and in the last 24 years I HAVE learned a thing or two! I have been gardening for over 24 years, and it is By using it the water trays you may risk over fertilising your plants and killing them all. gardening efforts. Powered by Invision Community. Just a note on using it for orchids. The FlytrapCare forum was started in 2008 by Matt Miller out of his love for Venus flytraps and other carnivorous plants (CPs). special! by Jaime Rodriguez Jr. I'll PM[], I don't know. Would you flush the fertilizer? This solution is aquaponics. . Discuss fertilization techniques here. How often would you say it's safe to fertilize? I use it as recommended by the experts,as a foliar spray using approx 1.5 grams per 500ml water. Does anyone know if this can be obtained in the Uk or is ther an equivalent formula? Would I use the same ratio if I used it on the plants I have outside (sarrs/vft) in the elements or would you use a stronger/weaker ratio on them? We recommend misting them every other weekend to help remind you of when to feed. Idk how it'd affect CPs, I've thought of trying it on trees to gain size faster. Using a premade concentrate for measurement helps average out the lumpy uneven mix that is maxsea. CPs, Houseplants, Dungeons and Dragons, classical and early music. Measure the water before adding the MAXsea. own food, and decreasing the total cost of operating your food With feeding and the new lights all of my plants have put out new growth. Clear editor. I've read a few places that frequent small feedings are better especially if the soil is regularly flushed. No? Support the community - Shop at FlytrapStore.com! In its concentrate state, it will stain anything it comes into contact with. require you to brew your own nutrient tea. The stuff I just pour on utrics or as a spray for. When I got started This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. You cannot paste images directly. Are you growing your Dionaea in a terrarium? Mix one level scoop of fertilizer with one gallon of distilled, reverse osmosis or clean collected rainwater and shake or stir to mix until thoroughly dissolved. Add the maxsea, measure the TDS again and subtract the TDS of the water. Yes, it's fine to be used with them, provided a general purpose fert is what they need at the time. Can you please give me a more detailed outline of it? Adding to what nimbulan said, I have had great results with adding maxsea in sarr pitchers, but you need to make sure that they don't topple over if you are adding it to the tall species. Plus, at the end of the gardening cycle you harvest all of your garden The ultimate solution to eliminate the cost of your hydroponic nutrients: You are using an out of date browser. years of experience under my belt, I quickly adopted a preference to effort as far as providing nutrients to your plants! nutrients, does not require you to make your own compost, and does not 3 ZtB8/%FI%Yw I hope that helps. They also manufacture various seaweed extract based fertilisers which can often be found in garden centres. Using an eyedropper takes more time. I do a "big feed" every 3 weeks, but I'm looking at doing small feeds in between. I've heard some people flush their pots afterwards and some don't. If it isn't responsive, try 10, and so forth. I only use .05 ml on a leaf at a time, often less. Breathing mainly, I've found it quite worthwhile. Their website is at: http://www.maxicrop.co.uk/. 40 ppm tap water sounds like a dream. grow lights, and you have reduced every garden expense to nearly ZERO! No cost and no You can if you want to, though I think I'd use a foliar feed on Sarracenia rather than filling pitchers that have bugs in them.

because I happened to find a very easy to follow, high quality technique Hi everyone, Jason from Jason's Indoor Guide here. years with making different compost teas and nutrient teas, but there is If I used it on my orchids, would I use full strength, diluted the same as for the CP's, or some other ratio? 1032 jetfire245 Requests D. filiformis "Florida Red, White Flower" + Bonus Capensis "Large Form". I just wanted to ask while I was asking. productivity, reduce your total costs, and reduce your total work. vegetables, PLUS YOU HARVEST FISH from the system--->. Place an aquaponics system outdoors and use the sun instead of I know I hadn't see it at my local stores, so I went to my trusty amazon.com account and found a 1.5lb container of the 16-16-16 for $19.98 and free shipping. Excellent spray fertilizer for your carnivorous kids! petesredtraps, To Borneo and Back Again - And Wrote A Book About It. Like right now, though, it has a few old pitchers that haven't degraded enough to remove and it's starting to grow some new ones, but its growing flowers. I've been reading up on that as well. They go nice and green right enough with ferts but seem to get weak and prone to rotting, maybe just my conditions. . Is it any good? 457 out here last I checked. Would it be a good fertilizer to use on my orchids? My gripe with tds readings of ppm is the variability of readings. still a lot of expense $$$ associated with making high quality nutrient I also use Camellia plant food for the same purpose. I've allways had trouble fertilising pings so now i don't bother. Package will come with scoop and directions for usage on carnivorous plants. 1033 Dan V requests Dionea muscipula "G16 OP". Pour mixture into a spray bottle or garden sprayer and mist the leaves of your carnivorous plants, avoiding spilling it into your potting medium and allow the plant to absorb the nutrients. having to buy food at the grocery store, it is surely cheaper to grow Maxsea works fine for manycarnivores but if you over-do it you will do more harm than good to your plants. Contents of bag will make 36 gallons of fertilizer for carnivorous plants and will give them the extra boost. I'd love to hear how that works out. Thank you for visiting and I hope you join our friendly community of CP enthusiasts! Thanks for the answers so far, everyone. Do you filter at all, or are you just a lucky son-of-a-gun? . I don't know if a spray of foliar fertilizer would help give the flowers a boost or whether they strictly grow off of the energy stored in the rhizome from last year. amount of work required, and maximizing the productivity of your Attached is the new growth tip after 3 days. . with hydroponic gardening more than 24 years ago, my first garden used Carnivores are far more sensitive, so 50 ppm or > 1/24th of a teaspoon per gallon feels correct for heavier feedings. A foliar fertilization should be safe for your neps, but I've never used maxsea myself. It is certainly known that 1/2 teaspoon of maxsea per gallon of water placed into the pitcher of a sarracenia seedling will dramatically increase growth. Hey, everyone. Misting, by its nature, is inaccurate, so doesn't approach the accuracy you are seeking. production system. I use this for tree ferns and according to the label, it is not a fertilizer in the true sense but can be added to 'normal' fertilizer and both can be applied together. I prefer to use 130ppm (judged with my TDS meter) table water for my seedling sarracenia as it is quick although perhaps not as effective as pitcher feeding.

var amzn_ps_tracking_id='jassindgui-20'; That goop has been treating me well on a once every three day schedule. Nevertheless, I didn't have a whole lot of money to work with Any thoughts? compost, and use your properly made compost as the basis of your . I've been advocating using a TDS meter with MAXsea. Seriously! My idea is to limit the time spent feeding, yet not hurt the plants. Is the 1/2tsp to 1gal a good ratio for all my CP's? You can eliminate a lot of this I've ordered mine about one month ago nd these are the first results (non-treated plant on the left vx treated plant on the right) Peter has talked of Maxsea of a very special seaweed-based fertilizer amonsgt others. June 22, 2009 in General Carnivorous Plant Discussion. A kelp (seaweed) based fertilizer, used by some Nepenthes growers, mostly in the US. I suppose one major issue is that the guaranteed analysis of my fertilizer ingredients only adds up to about 50% of the total volume and this includes 12% silicone dioxide which I doubt would show up on my TDS meter not to mention the seaweed extract and humic acids. I've got a super concentrated solution with a known conductivity I can measure with a 1ml syringe for fairly accurate measurements. That being said, I would never, under any circumstances ever fertilize vft's with anything. How regularly do you feed at that strength? . Received order promptly in good condition. For instance with the chemical fertilizer I use my TDS for 1/2 teaspoon to 1 gallon is 180ppm. i let it grow like a weed in my c[], I got the 4 stage, but agree that the 3 stage is[], Order received. Thank You. I was mainly asking, because I was thinking about giving them a boost in the spring before they grow their pitchers or traps and start catching bugs. Now that's what I'm interested in. Display as a link instead, Imagine a hydroponic system that does not require you to buy any The 130-150 ppm table water I use for sarracenia seedling table water includes the 30-40ppm tap water I use. If you are serious about producing Your link has been automatically embedded. If you can master the technique, I highly recommend it. I'll PM[]. I've read it's done in the UK also but can't for the life of me find the thread about it and I looked on here for over an hour last night trying to find it. Disclaimer! 1034 evenwind requests D. capillaris (Bertioga, Brazil). I have time and only 6 plants to feed, so I don't mind. Repeat this process every two weeks, being careful not to overfeed them. Simply click here to return to. Upload or insert images from URL. So once a hydroponic system is built, garden Is this acceptable? Temperature and composition can effect the readings, but I doubt I'll ever get the value of these solutions in moles. I just kinda want to see where maxsea takes me after reading up on it here, and in the savage garden. expense by becoming an expert at making high-quality colloidal humus It's very helpful. I've got a 16 ppm solution (18 total if you count the 2 ppm left behind by the filter) I've mixed with my bug soup for the more regular feedings. e6)EIgf"{lf||U7$8GzR'F5'_)F]TH_rGetd|lF hV23dp",5g;p~Y7U?K They seem fine still, 6 hours later. A great purchase. I only use with my cp's (including nepenthes). Though clearly if I used the math you used I should get 625ppm. % by volume is the most accurate for the info given, but ppm is a good rough measure. MaxSea - 16-16-16 - Carnivorous Safe Plant Fertilizer & Scoop. How? . I should preface this by saying that you really don't need to fertilize outdoor plants as they should catch plenty of food on their own. both work great. Water it in or spray the leaves with it? I hear it can create insane growth in some plants. As always with Sweet Leaf, this came with a care/use guide and I found it very helpful. I like to think of it as an artificial sarracenia pitcher. all of your own food and being self-sufficient, this is the ultimate Your order number is 1032. Carnivorus plants, hardy orchids, tracking though the Black Forest, Brought to you, and supported by, The Carnivorous Plant Society. I am moving away from that with the maxsea. It's easy to do. I don't know if that's a deal, but it seemed reasonable enough for how many waterings I'd get out of it. At the level I am using, I spray about every week or so. MaxSea can be used on most Nepenthes, Sarracenia, Venus Fly Traps and most Drosera (we do not recommend using it on Drosera sessilifolia or Drosera slackii, but use on spatulata is safe) and is perfectly fine for use with all of the plants that are carried by Sweet Leaf when used as directed below. For advanced growers only! Propagating Drosera Intermedia from leaf clippings? year! Today I will do what others won't so tomorrow I can do what other's can't. I am mostly interested in VFT's but I am having a go at Cephalotus. and to change it completely every 2 weeks.and the biggest operating I quickly realized the portion size was quite a generous one, as one scoop will produce a gallon full of fertilizer, and am very pleased with the price for how long it seems like it will last me! I'm also a keen photographer mainly using 35mm film but I do sometimes use digital. I had heard about it on this site. First time growing pygmy drosera and gemmae - need help please! 625 ppm seems really high, but I've got zero experience with using it. Carnivorous Plants (thats a given) but VFTs inparticular. I have some extra pings I'm gonna try out. I buy my maxsea in the states. You can post now and register later. amzn_assoc_placement="adunit0";amzn_assoc_search_bar="true";amzn_assoc_tracking_id="jassindgui-20";amzn_assoc_search_bar_position="top";amzn_assoc_ad_mode="search";amzn_assoc_ad_type="smart";amzn_assoc_marketplace="amazon";amzn_assoc_region="US";amzn_assoc_title="Search Results from Amazon";amzn_assoc_default_search_phrase="grow light";amzn_assoc_default_category="HomeGarden";amzn_assoc_linkid="c96c9e046e44ccaf736a4b92fd3de07c"; Join in and write your own page! I used to hand feed real insects. I do a bit of both. As far as sundews, I've only done cu[], I'll usually let my trays stay dry for a day or tw[], Order received. Besides mastering how to make high quality compost, learning aquaponics the Aquaponics4you product I knew immediately that it was something very I use MaxSea at 1/4 tsp per gallon of distilled water. Indeed, I have grown them in normal houseplant soil before which has added nutrients. . I fertilise both Cephalotus and Heliamphora with orchid food I can buy in most UK garden centres. They seem to be responding to a 50 ppm dose, which surprises me and makes me think I'm getting placebo by proxy. I purchased this about a month ago now and have treated my carnivorous plants twice in that time on an every-other-weekend schedule. rockwool cubes and B.C. I've done a foliar feed on the sansevieria as well with maxsea last I put the pepper on the leaves. I have questions about the Maxsea fertilizer. JavaScript is disabled. In my experience, in order of questions posted: Has anyone measured EC (or TDS) of this fertilizer at your working concentration? maintenance is minimal- check and adjust the nutrient solution daily, nutrients. Received on time and in great condition. 156 ppm still sounds high but it's closer to what I'd expect. As you browse through Jason's Indoor Guide, you will notice all of the hydroponic nutrient solution. All rights reserved. teas.like kelp meal, liquid seaweed, rock dust, bat guano, Paste as plain text instead, I would really appreciate it. Horticulture, fossils, archaeology, entomology, neolithic stone tools etc. Idk if I'm explaining my methodology well. I suppose when you take into consideration how much money you save NOT systems that I use personally are homemade systems. At the moment i am only using on my nephs , bit early for my other plants but it really makes a difference, i am really pleased so far . You must log in or register to reply here. I don't really plan to do too much fertilization of the outdoor plants. It is one of the top 3 things you can do to That is the potency the California Carnivores crew recommended to me when I bought it. Does bloody wonders for the ferns though. Not sure if it is the same stuff but I use MaxiCrop, a seaweed-based fertilizer which is available from nearly all garden centres in various sizes, over here in the UK. your own food hydroponically even with the cost of high quality (Los Angeles, CA, USA), I wanted to ask you a question about the feed schedule for Maxsea. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. . Bugs for the big feedings. It's a light mist.

I've just started to grow Nepenthes. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Does drosera binata multifada extrema seed by itself after flowering? I think it has nitrogen through urea, which I understand is hard for orchids to utilize. I *think* they spoke of doing a 10ppm to start but a lot of it is unknown. I've heard anywhere from 1/2 teaspoon per gallon to 1/8th teaspoon per gallon. 2022 by Sweet Leaf Succulents and Ornamental Plants, LLC. I don't really know how much I should mix when you said "I use a mix of Maxsea 16-16-16 and Maxsea 3-20-20 for two weeks". /Rttm%fH~ }iw8w lava rock, because the media is re-usable and it eliminates a huge PPM just gives me a headache. same time decreasing the amount of effort required to grow all of your

I have been using what I affectionately call "bug soup" which is DI water with freeze dried blood worms, ants, spiders, cockroaches, and whatever else crawls it's way under the gap in my door. Join in and write your own page! Mind if I post the results here when I get around to it? Simply click here to return to Hydroponic Nutrients Q&A. Just dripped it on them. This gives the TDS amount for just the added maxsea. is one of the top 3 things you can do to increase your garden Tds meters are approximations at best.

. MaxSea is best used during Winter when plants cannot get as many bugs, but can be used year round, every two weeks as directed. So I went ahead and put some drops of ga3 solution (5ppm) on some of my plants, including some 3 day old seedlings. With all of my hydroponic gardening experience, the first time I came across Ever! increase the productivity of your food production efforts, while at the People seem to be saying that it should be sprayed onto the foliage every couple of weeks. I know it depends on the plant, but are all plants safe at twice a month or should I start at once a month and fertilize more depending on how they respond. Some orchids like different concentrations at different times of year (more nitrogen while growing, less when flowering, etc.).