NPK for tomatoes? | Vegetable gardening | Commercial Hydroponics farming

If you are into container gardening and you dont actually own a big farm, you could use these handy packs of "Maxi Grow" available at Indam and Varsha enterprises. Not endorsing them in any way, I'm new to container gardening myself thanks to GG and I find these small packs amazingly easy to use and my plants seem to be loving them.

They cost RS 6 and NPK is in the ratio of 5:15:30. All you need to do is mix the contents of a single pack in 5 liters of water and water your plants.
Hope this helps

The last time I picked up some from Indam, will let you know if they have run out next time, It would be great if you could source this yourself and we could buy it off you.

Hi gg, I am curious... Aren't NPK supplements like maxi grow chemical substances. Will this still be classified as organic way of growing vegetables? 

-STS 

gg, 

In one of your old posts, you had mentioned about Panchagavya and how that transformed your garden. Do you still use Panchagavya? How effective is this in the long run. 

Regards,

STS

Thanks gg! That brings up more questions... when using coco peat, what would be the primary source for nutrients if panchagavya could be at best a supplement. 

I am still on the look out for a bottle of panchagavya, have contacted Sai and Hari, I might get lucky by end of Nov. 

My medium now, after 2 months in to terrace farming, is a mix of pot mix+coco peat+enriched vermicompost+neam based organic manure. Would panchagavya work in this medium. 

Regards,

STS

Hi Ach,

Thanks for the insight.

Happy Growing !

UG

Hi pr4d, 

I was at Lalbagh 2 days back, they have a product from Vital Plant Products called "N.L" which stands for Natural Liquid. The description says Panchagavya+Herbal... picked up a 100ml bottle just to test it out. I sprayed it today on the plants which just started flowering - bitter gourd, tomato and chilli. Lets see how it goes. 

I have used neem oil as well in the last few weeks to save my plants from spider mites. The bitter gourd leafs all of a sudden developed some white and grey spots, and that seemed to spread not only to other leaves but to tomato and chilli plant as well. Neem oil slowed down the damage but did not clear out all the mites. Finally I decided to cut off all the leaves that had damage and probably the heavy rains saved my plants from total disaster. 

Have anybody been to the Krishi Mela 2010 at UAS? There must be few stalls which should interest container farmers.  

-STS

Hi Aarthi, 

Thanks for summing up Krishimela, I was there as well early today and spent close to 3 hours. Yes I agree with you, the organizing team has done a good job! 

I picked up some seeds at the Monsanto store, they were selling in small Rs. 10 packet, which is what I was looking for. You probably missed the Vital Plant Product store, they had 100ml bottles of "N.L" which as I mentioned in my previous post is Panchagavya based. They claim all their products like Nisarga liquid, NCG Liquid etc has Panchagavya in it but may be with some processing to enhance shelf life. I picked up a bottle of Nisarga Liquid which according to the label is a mix of Neem, Caster, Honge and some Ayurvedic extracts. Have never used this before, will give it a try soon. 

The banana clusters were too huge, I saw two... one 80kg and another 70kg. I wish they shared the secret behind their success, I could have tried that on my bitter gourd or tomatoes.  

-STS