Grow More Premium Urea Free 20-10-20 Orchid Food Fertilizer - 1.25lbs of Water Soluble Orchid Fertilizer for Longer, Healthier, and More Beautiful Blooms Year Round

This formula is uniquely for orchids and other soilless plants. This is a great size that will last most hobbyists for many months. Too long and it clumps. I use it from a pump sprayer one gallon at a time. Plain water to wake up roots. 15 to 30 minutes later, but before the roots dry spray a gallon of mix just once a week. An hour or so later use the hose again to rinse off any unused fertilizer. This method has saved me from burning the roots. You want urea free nitrogen because urea needs bacteria in the soil to break it down. This formula gets absorbed immediately without bacteria. This is very similar to SA Nitrate Special 20-10-20 used by professional orchid growers in my area who irrigate with hard water.

I keep both the blue food, marked with a label “October to February” and affix a label to the pink food marked “Feb. To Oct.” so that I know when to start using each one. Most of the year I feed my orchids weekly with one half full measuring spoon of food that comes with the container, mixed thoroughly with a gallon of room temperature water. Drain orchids well as orchids hate sitting in water. Spray them with a mist of water which resembles their tropical habitat and they do very well. It’s October and my cymbidiums in outdoor pots on my protected deck are full of new stocks with buds that will become flowers just in time for the holidays! Average outdoor temp. Is 40’s at night and 60’s during the day this time of year. As soon as they begin to bud iinsert a stake to support each shoot as they become heavy with blossoms. This is the only food I use and it works great!

Great products - good for orchids. Prompt delivery.

When I first opened the container, the fertilizer was rock solid yet extra moist. I had to use a skewdrivr to beak up the mixture. I complained to the company and never got response. Since then, it is easier to break up the fertilizer and use.

I am unsure if it worked because my orchid didn't live long

I just got this stuff in the mail, but I'm giving it 4 demerits not having even opened the bottle. Why? There is a warning on the bottle which indicates that product has cancer causing ingredients? But that's not the reason for the one star. Someone actually had the temerity to take a sticky bar-code label and cover up the warning. I peeled the label away by chance, looking for mixing instructions. This is probably the best orchid food that money can buy. Why? Well, for one thing it causes cancer. Can you imagine if it didn't work but it caused cancer anyway? Ron DiGiovanni Easton, PA

I was very disappointed that the fertilizer was rocksolid when it arrived in the bottle. I was able to get it a little bit loose We are using it. I found all of the little packets I had that would take moisture out of the bottle and that has seem to help.

Grow More 5270 Urea-Free Orchid Food, 1.25 lb is totally easy to use. Simply mix with water and use it to boost nitrogen every other week during the time after the blooms fade until they start forming again in October. Your cymbidium orchids will turn green and start growing again, for another year of beautiful blooms.