If you use a product that has urea, as I unfortunately discovered I was using... does it kill the roots?
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Thanks for the great explanation about urea. a guy came to our society last week and was asking me what fertilizer i used. He said that what i was using had urea, and suggested Gyna Grow.There is an all purpose orchid product. I am thinking of trying it.
If you use a product that has urea, as I unfortunately discovered I was using... does it kill the roots?
I don't think it kills the roots...it just isn't as usable by the plant, so the plant doesn't get as much benefit from it as it would from a non-urea based fertilizer, which comes from types of nitrogen that the plant can readily take up. That's my understanding of it anyway, although someone please correct me if I'm wrong....
Thanks Jenn, there is such good information here, but I am so confused...is Dyna-grow a Super Thrive- like product or a separate fertilizer?
SuperThrive is a hormone/vitamin-based solution - not a "fertilizer" per se - Dyna Grow, from what I know is a granulated fertilizer, but I forget what the NPK numbers are.
Dyna-Gro manufactures liquid fertilizers, but what may be confusing you is that they also manufacture K-L-N, a competitor to SuperThrive - both being hormone supplements.
they vary, as there are different dyna=grow products
hi there my orchid are doing fine actually i boil powdered egg shells for calcium and strain it (the water )
and cool it overnight and then i add the fertilizer 1/2 blooming or growing boost
i am doing this for a month now i have no problem and they grow rapidly
hope this helps
Interesting solution - I know eggshells are great for compost, anyway. Just wanted to mention that I received a "free gift" of what is described as "a proprietary enzyme formulation which internally stimulates the plant's own natural production of hormones (auxions/cytokinin-like substances)" . I think it's okay to say this here because the vendor, I believe, is an OT site sponsor. I'm trying it. The analysis is 3-0-3. 3% Nitrogen, 3% potash, .32%Boron, and .10% Molybdenum. I honestly don't get what's different or great about this, and the more I research fertilizers, enzymes, hormones, minerals, etc., the more confused I get.
I''d be interested to hear anyone's opinion and/or experience with this stuff. Oh - and it's a liquid foliar feeder. I'm a little worried that I should adjust my regular fertilizing routine , butI just don't have a clue. My daughter is the biochemist - not me.
Also - this stuff is 2.99% urea-based nitrogen and I have looked at a lot of fertilizers and have hardly found any without primarily urea or ammonia nitrogen. Wouldn't you think these orchid fertilizer producers would know about the urea issue?