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Rip,

I really had intended to put in feeding stuff but I figured that I had probably honked someone off with my earlier post so I quit writing ahead of time. My fall feeding plan is to add fertilizer high in P and K and moderate in N in the fall. Usually I'll cook something up from commercial fertilizer I can get at the garden center or co-op. I'm going to try something new this fall and use the fertilizer I use on my roses through the summer. This stuff is higher in P that the standard "blue stuff" and should do OK. I don't use organic or time release fertilizer in the fall. The trees will only take up inorganic nutrients and I don't think the organic stuff has time to mineralize to inorganic before dormancy sets. What are your thoughts?

5-Oct-2001	#5
Soildoc bonsaiTALK Expert Join Date: Sep-2001 Posts: 169	Re: Fall feeding Rip, I really had intended to put in feeding stuff but I figured that I had probably honked someone off with my earlier post so I quit writing ahead of time. My fall feeding plan is to add fertilizer high in P and K and moderate in N in the fall. Usually I'll cook something up from commercial fertilizer I can get at the garden center or co-op. I'm going to try something new this fall and use the fertilizer I use on my roses through the summer. This stuff is higher in P that the standard "blue stuff" and should do OK. I don't use organic or time release fertilizer in the fall. The trees will only take up inorganic nutrients and I don't think the organic stuff has time to mineralize to inorganic before dormancy sets. What are your thoughts?