Hi Fu,
Just a question can you overdose the plants on these and will it do any damage?
Cheers!!!!
Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Oct 08, 2010 3:49 pm Hi Fu, Just a question can you overdose the plants on these and will it do any damage? Cheers!!!! ---- Building in Banksia Grove We have keys - 31st March 2011 Re: Doses of Powerfeed & Seasol 2Oct 08, 2010 4:31 pm No, in fact I pour neat powerfeed around trees. Over doing it just wastes your money. On trees, neat applications watered in will yield an amazing result weeks later. As will a solid few handfuls of seamungus and a rich layer of straw as a true waterwise mulch. SEasol do some good commercial products for puppies and cattle feeds. The woofas will love it and have the best coats you've seen Re: Doses of Powerfeed & Seasol 3Oct 16, 2010 4:02 pm Fu, I was at a wholesaler today and saw that Seasol has commercial 5L and 25L tubs. What's the difference between the commercial product and the retail on? The 5L commercial one was around $60 while lthe retail 4L was $32 odd. Is it double the strength? slooi1 Re: Doses of Powerfeed & Seasol 4Oct 16, 2010 7:07 pm It seems commercial one is more concentrated for some of the ingredients ( crude protein, alginates, solids). Seasol for home garden: http://www.seasol.com.au/images/stories ... 7_2007.pdf Seasol for commercial: http://www.seasol.com.au/images/stories ... 7_2007.pdf Re: Doses of Powerfeed & Seasol 5Oct 16, 2010 7:18 pm Seasol do an awesome puppy food additive of dehydrated seaweed. The dogs love it!!!! Yes the commercial product is slightly different. Domestically we love to over do things so a weaker solution for want of a better term is how it comes to us. Re: Doses of Powerfeed & Seasol 6Oct 17, 2010 6:46 am Cool - thanks for that. I think I'll stick to the retail one for a while. I'm sure it'll be a bit of time before I buy the 25L tub! slooi1 P.S. Garden and lawn is growing after the burst of sunshine in Melbourne! Re: Doses of Powerfeed & Seasol 7Aug 03, 2014 3:54 pm I am also quite confused about all this. They should make the per-litre rate much clearer on the bottles. Firstly, I never bothered to read the bottles (yeah ), and went straight to the Seasol website where I got this advice: Quote: How much PowerFeed and Seasol do I mix in a 2 Litre Spray Pack? Add 500 ml PowerFeed, 500 ml Seasol and 1 litre of water to a 2L spray pack. Make sure that you DO NOT refill any spray pack that has been used to apply herbicide or other toxic products. http://www.seasol.com.au/your-garden-faqs.asp It never mentioned there were different versions of Powerfeed and Seasol, so I've been burning through this stuff like crazy. 500ml:2L is a 1:3 ratio for each, so I've been using 1.25 Litres of each in a 5L spray pack. Now I spotted some Commercial Concentrate at a rural store, and the guy said "only use half of what you'd normally use" - so to me that would mean about a 1:6 ratio of each product to the volume of the bottle. BUT the Seasol bottle recommends a 1:100 ratio..... ok... I think I've been doing something wrong!! OK let's compare... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The two on the left are the commercial concentrates. The two on the right are the regular concentrated Powerfeed and spray-bottle Seasol. I assume there must be an even weaker non-concentrated version of the product given what the Seasol FAQ said, but I've never had that. Spray-bottle Seasol Label: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Commercial Concentrated Seasol Label: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The commercial concentrated Seasol explicitly says 1:100 or weaker. The spray-bottle Seasol says 200ml:9L which is a ratio of 1:44. So 'half as much' is approximately the right advice for commercial Seasol. More correctly it should be even less than half. Regular Concentrated Powefeed Label: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Commercial Concentrated Powerfeed Label: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The commercial concentrated Powerfeed suggests 1:100 for turf (and 1:250 for foliar application of most other plants, and 1:500 for seedling foliar application), and the regular concentrated Powerfeed is 90ml:9L which is about 1:99... ALMOST THE SAME. There is a difference in the formula though! Regular Concentrated Powerfeed: Nitrogen 12%, Phosphorous 1.4%, Potassium 7%, (It also mentions Potassium Humate) Commercial Concentrated Powerfeed: Nitrogen 14%, Phosporous 1.4%, Potassium 9%, (It also mentions sodium, sulphur, iron, calcium, magnesium, carbon) So I'm not really sure whether the labeling is just a little different and Regular Concentrated Powerfeed and Commercial Concentrated Powerfeed are to be used at roughly the same dilution. I'm not even certain whether they are a different formula. Either way, now I know for sure it's about 1:100 (OR WEAKER) for both commercial products, so that's pretty easy. A good thing though, this rural store I went to sold Molasses for $1.50 per litre. They had it in the fridge in old milk bottles. It's "Gleam O Dawn" in Samford QLD if anyone wants to know. |