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½ cup kelp meal
1 tablespoon ground oyster shell (optional)
SPIKE #2 ALL-PURPOSE/FLOWERING
1 cup feather meal
¼ cup bulb food with N-P-K ratio of 3-8-8
¼ cup soft rock phosphate
½ cup steamed bone meal
½ cup high N bat/bird guano
1 cup kelp meal
1 tablespoon ground oyster shell
1 tablespoon Azomite powder (optional)
These are basically just custom dry blends for filling up spiked/poked holes in the container mix. This is
done during a transplant so that the microlife has time to colonize the nutrient-rich spikes before the roots
arrive. Don't do this once a plant has put roots throughout the container. Spikes can go top to bottom in
length, or they can be shallower. It's totally up to you and your needs. In a typical 1-gallon container for
vegetative stage plants, I would make 4 spike holes, and I would fill 2 of the holes with some earthworm
castings,and1withthevegspikerecipeand1withthefloweringspikerecipe.Alternately,Iwouldusethe
flowering spikes and the vegetative spikes in equal numbers—like 2 of each for example—even in a ve-
getative growing stage; plants always prefer some balance to their nutrients, just like your own body does.
This is a filled spike hole in a 2 gallon container
