FoxFarm Grow Big Liquid Plant Food - Bloom Fertilizer for Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables, Perfect for Indoor & Outdoor Potted Plants, NPK 6-4-4 (Pint)

I was a little skeptical as to whether or not this liquid feed concentrate would actually work on my vegetable garden. I've used many, many different natural products to help give my plants an extra boost at the beginning of the gardening season as well as throughout each stage in the plants life up to fall time. The 2017 Ohio Spring got off to a horrible start this year. In March we were teased with well above average temperatures and it seemed as if we were going to have a great start to the gardening season. I start all of my plants from seed in a grow tent in my basement in February, so in April when the temperatures were still warm and my 150+ plants could no longer fit inside, I moved everything to an outdoor pop up green house with shelves and a thick plastic covering. Unfortunately about a week later, the temperatures plummeted and I had way too many plants in large pots to try and bring inside. I was under the impression that my baby plants were being well enough protected inside of their zipped up greenhouse during the cold 40 degree nights, but I was completely wrong. The temperatures hovered in the low 50’s and 60’s for the majority of April. At this point, I had already put my way over grown pumpkins in the ground at the end of April and tried to shield them using row covers. I knew the tomatoes and peppers wouldn’t survive the chilly temperatures so I did what I could to protect them. By May 15th, the temperatures had recovered into the mid 70’s and I felt confident enough to plant the tomatoes and peppers in the ground. Not even 4 days went by and our weather went down the drain again with lots of rain, and chilly temperatures falling into the low 50’s. I was praying that my plants would survive, but it was clear by the end of May that they were stunted. My tomatoes were PURPLE and the peppers were a horrific Kelly green. I bought the Fox Farms Liquid Feed in hopes of giving them a boost and mixed in some Epsom salts for good measure. I’ve been using this product for about 4 weeks, applying it to the base of each plant once per week, and I cannot even begin to describe the complete turn-around my garden has done. It gave my plants the nutrients and boost they needed to get out of their “funk” and helped them grow strong healthy root systems. My tomato plants are loaded with blooms and baby tomatoes, the pepper plants are all producing fruit, and my pumpkins/squash/melons are all producing fruit and new growth! I am definitely a believer of this company!The photos attached to this review were taken 22 days apart!

I'll use this again. I had some really nice flowers :) this year. I used large containers that drained well by using the right soil mix. This is a fertilizer that you'll want to use more than 1 time per week, likely about 2-3 times per week. Just look for that nice deep green color and rapid growth then stay with it. I followed it up with Big Bud liquid during blooming months. My results this year were really nice. over 7 feet tall and about 4 feet in diameter. The buds are all chunky, even the ones on the lower branches.

Nice product

I can't believe how well this stuff works instantly. I use it at least once a week or when I've forgotten to water my plants for longer than I should have. So many times my garden looked like everything had died and after applying it by the next day they look healthy and back to normal. Has been a huge life saver for us. The growth in the garden after application is incredible.

works like it should

We started seedlings this year, and we thought we had everything covered. But our seedlings just never took off. Once we took them out to begin hardening, natural light did wonders for them, and they started to grow new leaves, but then they started wilting and looking sad. We realized our soil, while rated for a full month of plant food, just wasn't holding anything anymore. Cue this great little product. It literally brought our cucumbers back to life, they were loose and limp and sad. Now, they think it's time to flower, but otherwise are flourishing. All seedlings have gotten taller, thicker, less leggy, and have increased leaf production. I couldn't ask for more. 2 feedings in, and every day they get stronger. I can't recommend this highly enough.

I have not yet used Fox Farm's Grow-Big.However, it came highly recommended by an international group of seed sowing flower farmers on Facebook.Many, if not most, of the flower farmers use Grow Big weekly to promote growth in super slow growing flower seedlings, including lisianthus. The idea is to encourage strong stems and reduce soft growth, up until 6 weeks before planting them in the ground, when other elements used to promote blossom development and flower growth get added into the mix. Some flowers are such painfully slow growers that they often require months and months of higher levels of a non-urea based nitrogen. (Depending on the culture sheet, lizzies, for instance, need a 15-0-0 organic fertilizer, or a 46-0-0 urea based fertilizer, or for a constant liquid feed a 15-5-15 or a 20-10-20 NPK, with the nitrogen derived from a calcium-nitrate based formula.)It's relatively easy to locate a 15-5-15 non-organic soluble fertilizer. Jack's or Peters both offer 15-5-15 fertilizers.It more difficult to find these high NPK numbers and proportions in organic and semi-organic water soluble formulations. Grow Big (at 6-4-4) has more Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium (N-P-K) than the more widely used soluble Fish Fertilizer (typically 5-1-1) a former favorite of the members of the FB seed sowing group.If truth be told, in a course of a week, the flower farmers twice fertilize: once with Grow Big and then a second time, toward week's end with a feeding of diluted (1/2 strength) ammonium calcium nitrate (15.5-0-0), also available at amazon.Grow Big undoubtedly stimulates other types of plant growth. Just explaining how and why I purchased this particular product and why early infusions of nitrogen remain important for a flower seedlings development.