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<blockquote data-quote="Mitch Rapp" data-source="post: 2394798" data-attributes="member: 332"><p>I'll give some better details when I get home, but basically they need to have dedicated lighting or be getting full sunlight most of the day. The sunlight is nigh impossible unless you plan to move the trays a couple times per day, so dedicated lighting is the easiest way. They are going to need plant food, the starter blocks of peat moss don't have much in the way of nutrients, and any that are there will be eaten away fast even in potting soil that comes with added nutrients, it's too small an area to hold enough food. I feed with a balanced fertilizer like SOME of the miracle grow plant foods once a week or every other day. I say "some" because you need to read the labels, some plants like a lot of nitrogen, like corn, spinach broccoli or other things where what you eat is the green leafy growth. For other plants like squash, tomatoes and plants where you are eating the fruit, you need to have a balance. The main thing on fertilizers for me is just look for the ones with fairly even numbers like this one. The first number in the "analysis" is Nitrogen 18-18-21 for this </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.scotts.com/smg/goprod/miracle-gro-tomato-plant-food/prod70358/" target="_blank">http://www.scotts.com/smg/goprod/miracle-gro-tomato-plant-food/prod70358/</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>As opposed to this one for grass 36 - 0 - 6</p><p><a href="http://www.scotts.com/smg/goprod/miracle-gro-lawn-food/prod70008/" target="_blank">http://www.scotts.com/smg/goprod/miracle-gro-lawn-food/prod70008/</a></p><p></p><p>Main thing I have seen, if you use the really nitrogen rich stuff you may get great looking plants, but your flowers and fruit will be lacking. If, even on things that love nitrogen, you feed a balanced food, they will still benefit from all of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mitch Rapp, post: 2394798, member: 332"] I'll give some better details when I get home, but basically they need to have dedicated lighting or be getting full sunlight most of the day. The sunlight is nigh impossible unless you plan to move the trays a couple times per day, so dedicated lighting is the easiest way. They are going to need plant food, the starter blocks of peat moss don't have much in the way of nutrients, and any that are there will be eaten away fast even in potting soil that comes with added nutrients, it's too small an area to hold enough food. I feed with a balanced fertilizer like SOME of the miracle grow plant foods once a week or every other day. I say "some" because you need to read the labels, some plants like a lot of nitrogen, like corn, spinach broccoli or other things where what you eat is the green leafy growth. For other plants like squash, tomatoes and plants where you are eating the fruit, you need to have a balance. The main thing on fertilizers for me is just look for the ones with fairly even numbers like this one. The first number in the "analysis" is Nitrogen 18-18-21 for this [url]http://www.scotts.com/smg/goprod/miracle-gro-tomato-plant-food/prod70358/[/url] As opposed to this one for grass 36 - 0 - 6 [url]http://www.scotts.com/smg/goprod/miracle-gro-lawn-food/prod70008/[/url] Main thing I have seen, if you use the really nitrogen rich stuff you may get great looking plants, but your flowers and fruit will be lacking. If, even on things that love nitrogen, you feed a balanced food, they will still benefit from all of it. [/QUOTE]
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