Espoma Organic Holly-Tone 4-3-4

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Espoma Organic Holly-Tone 4-3-4

Post by rydaddy » June 3rd, 2018, 1:48 pm

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Found this for a price that was hard to pass up. Only concern I have is that the 'marketing' specifies 'for acid loving plants'. I almost hauled 20+ bags of this out of the store. Decided I should double check that I'm not missing something on the label that should have me steer clear of it. At normal retail pricing I would NOT consider it.

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Re: Espoma Organic Holly-Tone 4-3-4

Post by andy10917 » June 3rd, 2018, 2:10 pm

Depends on what you're going to use it for. For plants, it's a deal. For lawns, you'd have to apply it at 25 lbs/K to reach 1 lb/K of any of the nutrients. At that rate, the 5% Sulfur would be enough to start the "pH yo-yo".

I don't remember what your soil test pH was this year. If you did one recently, post the Sulfur PPM and the pH, please.

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Re: Espoma Organic Holly-Tone 4-3-4

Post by rydaddy » June 3rd, 2018, 3:17 pm

ph 7.6, sulur ppm 8

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Re: Espoma Organic Holly-Tone 4-3-4

Post by andy10917 » June 3rd, 2018, 3:43 pm

OK then it works. pH may jump around some

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Re: Espoma Organic Holly-Tone 4-3-4

Post by rydaddy » June 3rd, 2018, 3:46 pm

Cool. Thanks for looking at it closer for me.

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Re: Espoma Organic Holly-Tone 4-3-4

Post by andy10917 » June 3rd, 2018, 4:28 pm

NP. Good ingredients, but you're gonna burn through it quickly!

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Re: Espoma Organic Holly-Tone 4-3-4

Post by Dchall_San_Antonio » June 8th, 2018, 12:19 pm

Off topic: I thought that was a horse in your picture.

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Re: Espoma Organic Holly-Tone 4-3-4

Post by rydaddy » June 8th, 2018, 4:55 pm

Hah! Nope (2) Vizslas. Will miss them dearly when they are gone, but they drive me bonkers. Fast as a cheetah, and they only give 110% - and the rest of the time are giant couch potatoes. If they need to go from one end of the house to the other to get a drink of water they run, walking is not part of there plan.

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Re: Espoma Organic Holly-Tone 4-3-4

Post by rydaddy » June 15th, 2018, 8:00 pm

bought 25 bags. Spread tonight in 90 deg. heat. Dusty. Almost as dusty as gypsum. and STINKY. Won't use it again. The yard should love it. Wife. Did. Not.

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