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| Comparative Study on Ginger Plugs at Phoenix Foliage in Winter Garden,
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| Phoenix Foliage in Winter Garden, Florida, conducted a test
comparing Dyna-Gro Foliage-Pro® 9-3-6 with Scotts® Excel® 15-5-15. Ginger plugs fertigated with Foliage-Pro® reached
shipping size in 6 weeks. Excel® plants took 9 weeks to achieve the same
growth. This means that
50% more plants can be shipped from the same bench space per year with
no increase in overhead! |
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| Ginger plugs were stuck and fertilized with Dyna-Gro™ Foliage-Pro® 9-3-6 at
a rate of 16 fl oz/100 gallons of water (1 tsp/gal) and Dyna-Gro™ Pro-TeKt® at
a rate of 8 fl oz/100 gallons of water (1/2 tsp/gal) hand
drenched twice a week to runoff. |
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| Dyna-Gro Week
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Miracle Gro Week
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| Ginger plugs were stuck and fertilized with Scotts® Miracle-Gro® Excel® 15-5-15 at
a rate of 2 lbs/100 gallons of water hand drenched twice
a week to runoff. |
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| Dyna-Gro Week
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Miracle Gro Week
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| Dyna-Gro Week
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Miracle Gro Week
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| The Dyna-Gro™ plants reached shipping size in 6 weeks vs. 9 weeks for the Miracle-Gro® plants. |
| This study was conducted from January 2, 2002 through February 26, 2002. |
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