Fertilizing

[JoshHolbrook]

Hi all,

I thought I would get some insight from all with you to see how everybody is fertilizing. I typically use liquid kelp fertilizer, but I can’t say that I am completely crazy about the results. I usually don’t get poor growth, but not quite as vigorous as I would like… I have a feeling a good chunk of it is my soil, heavy clay, but unfortunately there’s not much to be done about that.

[pombazaar]

I'm guessing most of your larger trees are in ground? I've been using Gaia Mania about once a week along with One Shot Granules about every 2-3 weeks for my potted trees and I feel like this year brought very vigorous growth. All 3 of my trees gained about 3-3.5 feet of solid growth and tripled in trunk size. Granted these trees are now 2 years old.

[JoshHolbrook]

I've got some bigger ones in ground - I still have quite a few in pots because I'd like to see many of them fruit before throwing them to the Lions of winter - if one has fruit that's completely heavenly, then I'll make the sacrifice of keeping it in a pot if it's not hardy... At >50 varieties, that's no small task, but oh well...

[Foodtreefield]

I got the best growth and nicest fruit when I was able to foliar-spray with a water soluble triple 20 similar to Miracle Grow 3 times during the season. Poms seem to respond well to foliar fertilizing. I also have a very heavy clay soil so i thought it would be worth a try. Found out that the big Pom Wonderful growers use a foliar feeding program. I see why. Wish I knew what they use.

[JoshHolbrook]

Nice - What zone are you in?