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Growing with Daniels Plant Food has simplified our nutrition program!

Daniels Plant Food is different from the other water soluble fertilizers in so many ways..  When we want to tone up our plants and keep them from stretching, we feed them at a higher rate, instead of reducing the ppm's we are feeding.

Feeding with Daniels^® Plant Food at a minimum of 250 ppm gives us toned, compact plants with reduced use of PGR's.  The rate of 250 ppm to 300 ppm seems to be where the organic benefits from the Daniels Plant Food are at their optimum.  It was explained to me that the amount of organic compounds, the calcium, magnesium and all trace elements that are in Daniels are proportionate to the feed rate.  They agree that the optimum level of these beneficial nutrients, for almost all plants is at a rate of 300 ppm.  If we want to slow down the growth of the plants, we add occasional fresh water feed.  Daniels seems to last in the soil longer, so when we do fresh water feed we don't see stretch or reduced color.  When we want to green up a plant or give it additional toning and keep it short, we apply a "foliar sprinch" at 450 ppm.  We have done this as often as once a week.  We even do this on our poinsettias...  it is amazing!

We found that the plants that we grew from start to finish with Daniels Plant Food, this includes misting with Daniels n the plug trays, were far superior to those that we just used Daniels Plant Food on as an occasional feed along with our regular feed program.  You see, we started out just using Daniels Plant Food when we were in trouble as a fix-it, and then, we finally realized we might not have to fix it if we grew only with Daniels.

Homewood Nursery and Garden Center:  My perennials struggled this summer because of the heat and how long the have been in their pots but I decided to use what was left of the Daniels Fertilizer and they just popped.  Hurray for Daniels fertilizer -  my plants love it!    See more photos...

We feed our bedding plants from start to finish at 450 ppm at 450 ppm and turn them in less than three weeks.  They are so compact and full and loaded with buds and blooms.

We feed our poinsettias like Daniels Plant Food recommends at 250-300 ppm from "day-one" all the way to the day we ship them.  WOW, our poinsettias are great and our customers rave!!!

You should see our tomato plants...  we feed them 450 ppm in the plug tray and stay with it all the way to sell date.  Our customers are amazed at the toned, strong, deep green plants, and the internodes are so compact.

That's nothing, we feed our tomato plants at 750 ppm on a 2 times a week program and you should see the toned - compact plants with tons of blooms.  Our customers won't buy tomato plants anywhere else.  Of course everyone at Daniels says we don't need to feed that much to get the same effect, but it works and they don't burn and our customers are thrilled, so we will keep feeding at 750 ppm.

Daniels Plant Food is so easy to use... we put a 55-gallon drum at the injector, adjust the setting to 1:400 to feed at 300 ppm and feed everything - No more mixing!!  On the plants that I previously fed at 150 ppm, I just alternate with fresh water every other time.  If I want to really tone them, I just add Daniels to my spray program at 1TBL per gallon of water; it even helps with the uptake of my spray program, which by the way the frequency has been dramatically reduced.

Daniels Plant Food has simplified my nutrition program.   The 275-gallon totes are great!!  I slide a tote up to the injector, adjust the injector to 1:250, put the siphon hose in and I am ready to feed.  I don't have to worry about feed for a long time.

My truck farming has never been so successful.  I buy plugs from a grower who grows them with Daniels Plant Food, and then I feed them with Daniels Plant food once they are in the field.  I have picked-up a lot of new customers, mostly restaurants, since I switched to Daniels Plant Food last year.  The quality of my tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, and strawberries, etc., are all so much better and the production per plant seems to be almost double, although I am not counting, I just know profits are way up.

Bob Bateman, Santa's Forest Nursery, Placentia, CA:  "Daniels  is making the difference across the board: great leaf expansion, more compact, outstanding color, better root development, a more toned product. Overall health is great! We're using DANIELS on everything we grow... I can just look at the plants and tell the overall health is very good. I look at caliper of stems, levaes, pubescence..."

Gary Teed, Sunshine Growers Nurservy, Ontario, CA: "I've had the best and tallest poinsettias ever."  Of his 8" pots and baskets ('Peterstar', 'Supjibi', 'Success', 'Freedom'), Gary said, "the branches are the thickest and best I've ever had."  On all cultivars in 6.5" pots, including 'Freedom', he achieved 6-9 bracts per plant on the majority of his crop.  On his 'Peterstar' 6.5" plants, he achieved 8=10 bracts per plant!

Sheila Butler, CCNP, Arakawa Nurservy, Corona, CA: "I like the way Daniels keeps my plugs so evenly green.  My vincas and salvias ('indicator plants') do not show any deficiencies.  It readily greens up any plant almost overnight.  Been in the nursery business 30 years - thanks for the opportunity to participate!"

Katie Campbell and Tom McCreight, Ridge Greenhouse and Florist, Oak Ridge, TN: "What a difference it's made in our poinsettia crop.  This year our poinsettias have beautiful green foliage and the best roots I've seen in a long time.  We are very pleased with this new fertilizer and will continue to use it with our other crops."

"The performance of the crop was better than in the last 3 to 4 years..."  His 1998 poinsettia crop had "an excellent root system with white roots, good leaf expansion, stem growth and caliper..."  Tom especially like the "low salt index" of Daniels.  He felt that it was a strong contributor to a healthy root system and to the lack of foliar edge burn on his poinsettias.