soil nutes on extra hydro tomato plants

15 years ago

Back in early November I had too many large red cherry tomato plants in perlite. Instead of destroying them, I only gave them alkaline tap water while I waited for the fruits to ripen. Well they did ripen, and I have continued to pick new fruits as they ripen (2 months later).

The plants are still flowering and fruiting w/ only tap water, so I recently fed them some dilute MG tomato formula to give them a little help. I dont have enough GH nutes left for these "extra" guys, but these plants arent giving up regardless I see.

I know the soil nutes arent for hydro of course, but could someone recommend how much MG Tom form to use for daily watering? (Im broke now, and have MG tom, MG general, and bloom collecting dust).

I appreciate any input

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grizzman
15 years ago
normally the back of the container will give recommendations on how to mix up a daily feed.
What I've done with MG's general fertilizer is this:
mixed a concentrate of 2 Tbsp fertilizer in a cup of water. Also, I would include 1 Tbsp of epsom salts in that same concentrate.
For the daily formula, I would mix 4 tsp in a 20 oz soda bottle.(bear in mind, the concentrate was really meant for a hydro solution) That roughly translates to about 1 Tbsp in a gallon of water. that resulted in 330 ppm of fertilizer, though yours will be slightly less as I rounded down to 1 Tbsp.
Hope that helps.
tampahydro
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks for the input. I am amazed I am still picking tomatoes faster then I can eat them. I will definitely add some more epson salts as I have done on occasion in the past. Im sure an occasional maxicrop dose wouldnt hurt as well. Thanks again
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