This STUPID Fertilizer Experiment Killed EVERY ONE of My Plants!

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• TH

  @TheMillennialGardener · 2 years ago · pinned

  If you enjoyed this video, please &quot;Like&quot; and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 🙂TIMESTAMPS for convenience:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E">0:00</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; The Fertilizer Test Experiment<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=84">1:24</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; NPK Ratio Explained<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=153">2:33</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; MiracleGro Fertilizer Analysis<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=211">3:31</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; The NPK Ratio Theory<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=296">4:56</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; Mixing Water Soluble Fertilizers<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=358">5:58</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; Making Potting Mix And Test Plants<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=473">7:53</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; The Fertilizing Schedule<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=555">9:15</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; How To Fertilize The Test Plants<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=623">10:23</a> &nbsp; Two Weeks Later<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=684">11:24</a> &nbsp; 70 Days Later<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=759">12:39</a> &nbsp; Why I Think The Experiment Failed<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=1024">17:04</a> &nbsp; My Thoughts On Synthesized Fertilizers<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbRAD0DF4E&amp;t=1217">20:17</a> &nbsp; Adventures With Dale

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• NI

  @NinaPetrie-b8w · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m so grateful that you didn&apos;t delete the failed experiment. I find these types of videos more educational and helpful to me as a gardener. Nothing &nbsp;beats a living biome in your soil!

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• FU

  @fugueine · 2 years ago

  The experiment didn&apos;t fail, it just gave results you weren&apos;t expecting. Thank you for reporting the results.

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• GE

  @GetMeThere1 · 2 years ago

  The lesson I draw from this is that you can&apos;t go wrong with quality topsoil and compost as a healthful basis for plant growth.

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• DA

  @daver7013 · 1 year ago

  I may have learned more about fertilizer in this video than a video that tells me to add this fertilizer and that fertilizer. Seeing the results of your experiment is pretty valuable to me. &nbsp;I’m recently retired, and am having &nbsp;fun growing tomatoes and peppers this spring. And I would hate for my inexperience and lack of knowledge to kill my plants. &nbsp;Thanks for not letting that happen with your ongoing backyard classroom, professor.

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• SA

  @samsteel4456 · 2 years ago

  You were basically trying to run a hydroponic dutch bucket system but failed when you added peat moss which is organic and holds on to way too much water . Additionally, it has the potential to significantly change the ph of the medium to very acidic, locking out many nutrients and preventing availability to the plants. &nbsp;You should repeat the experiment with only perlite. &nbsp;It is not organic and won&apos;t add anything to the system, unlike peat moss when it breaks down. &nbsp;Set up the same experiment but this time, wash off the dirt from the roots as best as possible and then plant in perlite. &nbsp;Set up a watering schedule for 4-6 times per day for a minute or so and drain to waste. &nbsp;That way you will see the affects from only the fertilizer and not the decomposing peat moss. &nbsp; No offence, but i think your theory of why that experiment failed is way out in left field and has nothing to do with miracle grow not providing various micronutrients. &nbsp;I think it failed due to nutrient lockout and lack of oxygen to the roots.

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• SU

  @SuperDranger · 2 years ago

  Love the honesty makes me love this channel even more

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• UR

  @ursamajor1936 · 2 years ago

  My challenge as a retired person is to keep the garden free. I rely on compost and i compost everything. My yields are plenty for me.

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• JO

  @joanthompson4559 · 2 years ago

  I &nbsp;actually consider this a winner. &nbsp;In reading many of the informed comments, they discuss why this experiment appeared to fail. We learn from failures, hopefully. &nbsp;The failures started the conversation on what the problem was. We have all learned.

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• SI

  @sisterclare1 · 2 years ago

  There may be another factor at play here and it doesn&apos;t have anything directly to do with the micros, and you kinda answered it yourself. First you added dissolved fertilizer every 2 weeks into an inert medium. The plants had a feast or famine feeding. The inert media has no nutritional carry over. Any organic such as compost, fish fertilizer etc breaks down slowly, even when pre-digested and continues to feed for many days/weeks after application. That is why when used as a supplement to the liquid fertilizer solution the plants do better. <br>If you were to ration out the same amount of liquid fertilizer into your daily watering schedule so in 2 weeks the same dose was applied, I say your plants would have done much better.<br>Hydroponics works the same way with diluted doses applied daily over time and the plants thrive...For your consideration. Happy gardening.

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• JS

  @JS-jl1yj · 2 years ago

  I love your experiments. &nbsp;Thank you for taking the time to make those kind of videos as they are very important. &nbsp;Last Fall, I emptied my matured compost and dug it into my veggies beds. &nbsp;In March, I started my heirloom tomatoes (from my saved seeds) in a sterile potting soil intended for indoor plants, rather than in a seed starting soil. &nbsp;As soon as the first true leaves appeared, I started feeding them with half of the recommended doze of Miracle Grow water soluble 20-20-20 fertilizer. &nbsp;Later, I transferred the seedlings into 750 g yogurt containers (with drainage holes). &nbsp;I added some Miracle potting soil mixed with a bit of bone meal. &nbsp;By now, the seedlings did not fit under my grow lights, so I placed them inside my flimsy cold frame. &nbsp;When overnight frost was forecasted, I brought them indoors for the night and took them back out in the morning. &nbsp;This back and forth was going on for about two weeks. &nbsp;After the last frost date, I was ready to plant them into the ground. &nbsp;I put a handful of pelleted chicken manure, that contained calcium into each planting hole, lightly dusted the entire bed with dolomite calcium and watered each plant with transplanting fluid to prevent transplanting shock. &nbsp;Now, I continue to feed them every 10 - 14 days with Miracle Grow water soluble 20-20-20. &nbsp;My indeterminate heirloom tomatoes are growing strong 1&apos; thick main stem and are 10 feet tall. &nbsp;I am harvesting fruit, that is noticeably bigger than it in the previous years. &nbsp;I believe that I have finally discovered the winning combination of organic + synthetic, from seed germination to harvest. &nbsp;By the way, I treated my peppers exactly the same as the tomatoes. &nbsp;Out of 8 pepper plants of the same variety, only one had end of blossom rot. &nbsp;At my ripe age, after gardening for the past 45 years, I finally started writing notes in my 1st gardening journal.

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• KE

  @kekalyn8094 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m glad you filmed this and posted, a lot to learn from it and from the responses. Keep up the good work

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