Masterblend Fertilizer for In-Ground Tomatoes (how to). This stuff is CRAZY!
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- A detailed walk through on using Masterblend fertilizer for in ground tomatoes and other vegetables. Masterblend is primarily used for hydroponics and there's very little information on using it with in ground tomatoes and vegetables that includes dosing and frequency details. Everything I explain here was learned through trial and error and at this point I have it almost perfected. By early April I have 40 tomato plants between 3.5-7.5 feet tall with hundreds of fruit currently ripening on the plants.
It's important to follow the directions exactly to get best results. This video covers all the directions.
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Busy schedule didn't allow me to garden last year but this year's garden is already up and running. I'll be adding new videos with learnings from last time and comparing MasterBlend with regular fertilizer over a period of time. Also covering topics such as my string trellis system and other tips and tricks, particular to desert gardening.
Expense is the reason many use the kratsky method... u can even start kratky and move to dirt. Alot of how much u need of which element depends on your soil... a soil sample would be necessary. If you mix out of sequence the elements will combine into stuff that will fall out and ur plants will not be able to use it. Nitrogen pushes for growth... the other 2 go for blooms and fruit... i found its easier to mix each in a quart jar then pour into 4 gallons of water in sequence, then top it off. On potted plants i just use the last 2 to keep them from getting leggy
Great video! I've been using Masterblend in my Hydrophonics for a few years and decided to try the blend outside and came across your video. I grew up in AZ and moved to Upstate NY, i totally understand your environment. Your garden is amazing! I love AZ.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It's really very nice of you. Happy gardening.
I have used Masterblend and Calcium Nitrate to root drench raised bed and container vegetables for 3 years now. I do add 0-30-50 to push roots and fruits once fruit starts to develop. Buy 20 lb bags. I use the 20-20-20 version for leafy plants. I dissolve separately then add to a 5 gallon bucket. Use a little water in the bucket and swirl using hose pressure and a sturing stick. 12 grams 4-18-38 & Calcium Nitrate and 6 grams epson salt per 5 gallon bucket. Hghly recommended.
One of the only vids on masterblend in soil Ive found. I went for it last year in big pots on my deck. Avg 20 gallon for my peppers. I have raised beds but decided due to the amount of worms in our beds and my fondness for them. I didnt want to salt them in case.
This year Im going harder and making the soil better with vermiculite. Im starting to use spent potting soil from tomoatos or something hardcore and going to mix in bark fins for extra drainage kinda like the nurseries use for trees. I went about 2.0Ec on my peppers last year and seemed good. Its winter but I started a few peppers inside already and a cherry tomato, a biet alpha cuke and a few other thing just to grow semi hydro as practice. If they stay good, they will be 6-7 months old when they go out.
I used masterblend on my starts last year, starting out dilute, everything in coir/perlite and they were the best starts Ive ever grown. My topped peppers and tomatos grew so fast compared to typical years starts that I will start much 1 month later this year. I have all of the fixins for hydo, a huge tower, a bunch of bato buckets, pumps and what not but cant find the time to play with that much water indoor just yet as I work a lot. From home like you so I can 24/7 my plants.
IM not someone to write down or make vids but Ive done so much A-typical stuff and have been hybridizing gardening styles becasue something seems possible or I have the equipment. Maybe this year I'll have time to make vids of my peppers or even my indoor.
I hope more people put up info about semi-hydro I guess its called. Kinda like a Mittleider method too but, with decent soil vs sawdust or fairy farts.
One more thing I noticed that would be interesting if you pulled your plants up. When my starts last year were going outside, the roots were smaller than typical soil roots. They were nice and healthy but perhaps getting the nutes stopped them from developing a super huge root system. This made transplanting awesome and nothing got root bound as they are usually pushing it at least if I dont get to pot them up. It also meant That indoors I didnt have to hurry and pot up, so 4" to 6" and then they were 18" tall, not leggy either just growing in a small pot
You can mix everything in 1 bucket. no need for two of them. You can even put masterblend and epsom salt in the same cup and just dump it into your bucket. Once those are mixed/dissolved it is safe to dump in your calcium nitrate. I use an aquarium pump to do the mixing for me. I make this stuff on a daily basis here in Florida for my greenhouse. Just never mix the calcium nitrate dry with anything else. Always add it last into the water after the other ingredients are completely dissolved and you will be safe. Your bucket doesn't even need to be full of water either. 2 gallons is plenty to make your mixture safely. Then you can add the rest of the water. Having less water actually helps it mix faster.
Interesting, thanks for the tip. Will try it today. I just did it my way cause I had very little to go by and I was trying to be cautious
can I use this same recipe for container gardening in soil??
@@ellisjk1409 yes you can. Just be careful. You don't want to burn the plants. Too many feedings in a row can build up and cause nutrient burn because you're growing in soul and it does not drain or act like coco aka hydroponics. You could try feed, feed, water, feed, feed, water or feed, water, water if you get what I'm trying to say.
Dude, thank you for going by what the instructions say. There’s a reason they put instructions on things.
I wonder why you shouldn’t mix of calcium nitrate, dry,?
Man pros and cons. I bed you go through way more of the nutrient than would be needed in a hydroponic system, but i bet after a year or two of doing this that soil will be SUPER rich.
Thanks for the video. Will keep this as an option in my garden for soil plants.
I love using the 3 part MB fertlizer on my tomatoes! Been using for a couple years and my tomatoes and peppers have been happy ever since. I highly recommend that you do use a scale as you suggested and not the teaspoon method that is listed on the master blend bag -- there is a big difference between 2 teaspoons of master blend and 12 g, 2 teaspoons of magnesium sulfate and 6 g as well as 2 teaspoons of calcium nitrate and 12 g. When I first started I was using the teaspoon method and moved to a scale because it's much more accurate.
Good vid, thanks for posting for us soil gardeners.
This is a great mix.
I had slow growth on green chiles and bell peppers last year.
Learned about this masterblend mix and started using in mid July.
Chiles exploded with fruit up until late October.
I’m in southern NM so very similar to your AZ dry heat.
Lots of afternoon shade July-October.
I'm ready to drive & get my "Hatch Green Chili", Well maybe to the local grocery store with the price of gas. 3boxes (bushels) for two of us annually.
Thank you! I’m trying master blend this year in my garden after using it successfully in my hydroponic system. You have a beautiful garden there in AZ. Good luck
Appreciate it! Never realized how stress relieving and stressful gardening was. It's still one of my favorite things to do and while I couldn't garden last year because I was busy with work travel, this year's is already up and running. New videos related to this, my garden setup, and other related az gardening topics will be coming soon
Can't believe how difficult it was to find dosing! I have three rain barrels I fill from a creek and have historically added miracle gro to the one barrel. Each can be turned on/off and they all connect to my drip irrigation. Based on .5 g/hour emitters I can make up the solution and run barrel 3 for 15 minutes every 3-4 days. Thanks so much for vid!!!!!!
Great video. I use this for cucumbers in water totes but now I need to mix it up for my tomatoes. Thanks for the video.
Glad it helped! I really need to use it more on my cucumbers. It's about to get too hot for tomatoes here so will switch to fulltime fertilizing the cucumber and squash with it and will report back. Thanks!
Very good video that I was looking for. You can dissolve calcium Nitrate in warm water.
(105 degree F.) It will dissolve very fast.
Ok, I'm going to give it a shot! Thanks for the 411.
Master-blend is a very powerful commercial grade mineral hydroponic formula as you mentioned, so will easily do well there…. You can also play around with organics such as one master blend dose, next dose liquid organic, then master blend again, ect. You will get the good yield, but also improve flavour and quality. General Organics, Botanicaire, all make a good one part liquid organic, heck that miracle grow bottle might even work. Nice garden…🎉
Thanks for sharing!
Very interesting. I live in Australia and i have noticed, here anyway, commercial growers are using a lot less P values in the nutrient powders (about 4) and seem to get very good results. Not sure why the difference but Masterblend seems to be terrific.
When he was talking about mixing them in order that’s important so your calcium doesn’t bind to phosphates and create calcium phosphate (lime scale) which will then precipitate out of solution and render those nutrients unavailability for plant uptake. It’s important if you don’t want to see plant deficiencies in your garden.
You can tell when that occurs because the lime scale will fall to the bottom and stick to your mixing containers or nutrient reservoir and become hard to clean out.
Appreciate the details on why mixing well and in order is important. I didn't know the details and chemistry of what happens when things are done wrong.
Great video...thank you !
U can mix all in one bucket as long as you make sure the master blend and Epsom Salt is mixed first and fully dissolved! I’ve been using Masterblend 8-15-36 for years on tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon, squash, you name it. Works great… it is best to use rain water, distilled water, or RO water, because city water already has dissolved solids in it and can mess with your mixture…
Can I not add the calcium nitrate because they say to back off nitrogen when you want your plants to start and keep producing fruit?
Hello just wanting make sure im reading correct u have used this on things other than tomatoes and it has worked fine?
@@kennethswann6458I used it in cucumber, watermelon, squash, zucchini, and peppers and seemed to work great for everything. Cucumbers seemed to be the least improved but I've grown cucumbers easily with the "oops, forgot I planted cucumbers 2 months ago" method and still had an amazing yield.
I'll be trying winter vegetables using it in a month or two (lettuce, peas, etc) and will report back
I'm going to try this in my 12 gallon for tomatoes and 27 gallons for cucumbers and corn. These are totes that I purchased from Costco turned into wicking tubs lets see how this works. The tubs approx. 5 gallons of water not sure if I should mix 5 gallons of solution and use it in one tub at a time. I live in N Ca and don't want to have to constantly water everyday. Thas why I made Leons wicking tubs. Thanks for video.
Also you mentioned shade cloth. I used 40% blk cloth for all of july and Aug and the plants were so beautiful. I think people underestimate how much they need the shade. If I was IN AZ I would use it June to Aug. You can get 50ft cloths ad suspend them high. It cools your whole yard by up to 20degrees. It was over 90 and under the cloth it was 75 or when it was 100, it and all surfaces were 80
Shade is everything here in AZ
Regular cloth? Or gardening shade cloth? Do you have a link? I am in zone 5b, do I need shade here too? Thank you!
My trellis system was built not only to grow the tomatoes up the string line but also so I could completely cover the tomatoes in shade cloth with ample air space. Problem is even with the cloth, the tomatoes won't fruit when the air temperature is 105+. Going to try adding a box fan on one end of each planter to see if that will help cool them more. Also going to try alumicloth which is literally cloth made from aluminum and is supposed to reflect sun's rays and heat magnitudes better than regular shade cloth
Getting ready to plant this year's garden. Going to do less tomatoes and more peppers, squash, zucchini, corn and cucumbers because I had waaaaaaay to many last year (the year this video was made). Sadly I ended up wasting a fair amount of my tomato harvest. This year I'll be starting with the Master blend from the moment they go in ground whereas last year I waited a month or more.
I managed to keep 4 of the tomato plants alive through the summer and winter and I'm very curious how they'll produce this spring. They're ginormous.
Very helpful I live in arizona and thank you
It's really been a game changer for me. I've never managed to get any tomatoes to yield more than a couple here and there and all of them had some kind of issues until I tried what's in my video. Can't recommend it enough
If yall want to learn even more about masterblend check out all of cb’s greenhouse videos- he’s the man
Thank you. Farmer Dre uses a huge amount of fertilizer. I mixed up three gallons using his amounts and I'm hoping it doesn't kill my plants. From now on, I will use your numbers. My package of Masterblend did not have a recipe on it.
actually, when you calculate it all out, Desert DiWHY is using far more .....just over double the concentration than Farmer Dre. Remember, Farmer Dre is feeding over 400 plants and using 50 gallons of water feeding once per week.
Great video! I have used Masterblend for Kratky hydroponics with good results, and have always wondered how it would work in the dirt. I think I will try it this year. Also, I mix the chemnicals in a Vitamix blender. The chemicals really mix fast and easy. Good luck this year. Your garden really looks nice. Thanks for sharing!
Good idea on the blender. I was actually going to try a paint mixing paddle on my cordless drill
Nice work! Net shade, uv plastic areally good too for tomatoes on hot sunny weather.
My trellis system lets me cover them with shade cloth when it's super hot. Problem is the tomatoes just won't fruit even in the shade once it's really hot.
Randomly came across your video and my masterblend just arrived today with the intent to use in my aerogarden and other hydroponics. I ordered the 25 lb kit so have plenty...definitely going to try it with my tomatoes in the outside garden. I got a late start and this gives me hope that I will actually be able to get a decent harvest out of them! Guess I was meant to come across this video!
Just be sure you weigh the amounts and do not try using tablespoons and teaspoons because they're not the same amounts like they say on the directions. It's worth the investment in a cheap jewelry/ gram scale
How did it do in the aero garden? How much did you add?
I put two tablespoons Miracle-Gro scooper of the master blend in 1 gallon of water. And water into my tomato plants. My plants grow fine but maybe I'm using way too much
You mentioned using about 3/4 of a Solo cup per plant: how often do you give each plant this amount? Is you Solo cup 16 oz size?
Excellent video and information. Thanks for your help!
I was doing it every 3-4 days on a average once the tomato plants were about the size you see in the video. i believe theyre standard size solo cups so 16 ounces... 12 ounces being used per plant per feeding. No burning at all
How can you mix master blend using ammonium nitrate,potassium,mono potassium phosphate,calcium nitrate. Is it worth guessing teaspoons to 10 litres?
Do you water every day with Master Blend? I use to do hydroponics, but my water use to clog the pipes so I had to change. So then I used the same fertilizer but gave it to the plants from a bowl under the pot and let the plants free feed. It worked well for me. How often are you feeding? Oops, I see now, every 3-4 days,
What is the variety at 15:15 with all of the flowers?
I'm just starting this gardening thing I get mixing in granular fertilizer into the soil for your raised beds when I started out wondering roughly how often should I go out and spray the beds with liquid fertilizer I found different answers to this
I had the same problem so I did a lot of trial and error. What I did here seems to work very well. Was always afraid of buring the plants with too much fertilizer but never had that issue once even though I did more than anything I'd seems recommended using the same product/blend
When do you start your tomato's i live in las vegas nv which is pretty much the same weather as yours.
I have mine in the ground outside in January already. The trellis I have is removable (the posts sink into pvc sleeves along the edges) and in January I have thin pvc arches that span the width which I put cheap painters plastic over for a mini green house. If there's any super cold nights I'll even place a small space heater in the quasi green house. You really have to have them outside in ground around the time I do to get any decent crop before the heat hits.
How’s this different from 20-20-20? Masterblend + CaNO3 is close to 20-20-20
What about using this fertilizer mix on melons like cantaloupe and watermelon? You feed each plant one Solo cup full of fertilizer mix once every 2 days?
Every 3 days or so once it's established but less when it's very small. I had one watermelon and fed it the same amount as the instructions in my vid and it did fantastic.
I’m more interested in how you made your trellis
I'll be posting a video about it in the near future. I actually took some video of me making it from a couple years ago but I'll cover everything from how it's built, to how it works, and some additional bonuses that have saved entire crops by having it
Masterblend is so expensive now at about 6 USD per pound which is insane. I really want to do some hydroponics, but the prices are a bit steep when you add up the three ingredients together PLUS I do peppers, and tomatoes which will drink a lot of it. There has to be something cheaper than 30 dollars for 5 pounds, then 5 pounds of the calcium nitrate is 16, then the Epsom Salt at around 8 for six pounds.
U sure it is expensive? A pound of mb makes near 500 gallons
@@TheCarneiroid I am sure as I have went through half of that with only three, was 4, plants in a year. My kit came with 5/5/2.5 in it.
@@generalawareness101Odd that you go through so much, considering that each pound of MasterBlend can make 188 gallons. Are you currently only growing crops in soil? If so, were you watering those 4 plants with MasterBlend on every watering? I’m trying to understand why you would be going through so much MasterBlend. I normally mix some MasterBlend once a week(or every other week) for my soil plants, to give them a boost, but mostly water with just water. On the hydroponic, they use mostly water on the hotter days, so I have to keep an eye on it, and top off the reservoir with just ph balanced water. When the water level AND PPM’s get low, I’ll just top it off and add some more MasterBlend.
I don't use MB for soil only for hydro.@@fgjf1079
I have a little ninja blender about 500 ml that was a good deal on sale. I figure mixing in smaller doses will be super quick.
Awesome idea, I may actually do that. I know we have one in a cabinet collecting dust sonewhere
How long will this last, once mixed? Can I make a huge batch of it, and let it sit in a 275 gallon IBC covered Tote over the summer and use it for my outdoor garden plants, when needed?
I would avoid more than a few days to prevent precipitation of the nutrients out of the solution. Just mix as needed, it's very easy.
@@WordsToTheWind Since my original question is over 10 months old, I did this last year. I mixed 250 gallons of it, and used all but about 20 gallons of the mix. There may have been some loss of nutrients, but my plants didn't notice it. I'll be doing it again this year. It is very easy to mix small batches, I guess....but just as easy to mix a large batch, for the same rewards.
I don’t know if you realize how bad Arizona’s tomatoes are. If someone like you could grow tomatoes in Arizona they would make a fortune!!
Can't agree with you enough. Unfortunately there so few varieties that actually grow here, even with an expensive set up. Cherry varieties like Sweet 100 and Yellow Pear do great and some medium sized ones like Darkstar, champion II, Phoenix, and Early Girl do pretty well but a lot of the amazing tomatoes just hate is Phoenicians.
you can buy this at Morgan County seed and look on TH-cam for the mhp gardener in my opinion nobody gets yields from masterblend fertilizer like this guy does and all his videos are instructional
He's the one who clued me into master blend. I couldn't for the life of me remember the channel of the Missouri farmer where I saw master blend for the first time. Thanks!
@@Zonatapio I'm from Missouri and I thought he was from Georgia or Alabama from his accent mhpgardener got me started gardening and growing tomatoes about 7-8 years ago happy gardening
@@Zonatapio I believe "Farmer Dre" is the Missouri guy. I have watched "MHPGardner" for many years, awesome channel but, he suddenly disappeared, not sure why?? I took his lessons and did a small experiment using his MasterBlend teachings and grew radishes in plastic pellets, in a hydroponic format...........It worked great!!! Now, a couple of years later, I want to start a small garden using pots and soil mix using solid organic fertilizer. I needed the the NPK ratios of Masterblend but, wasnt sure on how much to feed the plants in soil. Convert liquid to solid ratios is hell!! I found your video, the only one on youtube!!! (Thank you very much btw) Took me a week to find it!! You provided a great starting point with the single most important data point in the entire video!!......the solo cup liquid ounces you use to feed per plant, this is where I will be starting. Thank you so very much, I was stuck here because the ratios are scary when dealing with solid fertilizers but your video helped me through that.
@@mrrey8937yes around Springfield mo I brlieve
How do I use the blend on soil container tomatoes?
Same but I'd probably halve what I did and then ramp it up if they show no adverse affects.
Yep-your mixing is overkill. 😃 try mixing the powder into warm water-just a solo cup full. Then add the cold water once its disolved. Thanks for your experiments with in-ground tomatoes! I use the MB in hydroponic lettuce gardening in the winter.
I kind of figured as much. Fertilizing so often I've definitely gotten a lot more relaxed about how much I stir and usually just use one bucket now but at the time I was kind of flying blind and the only thing I was told was to make sure everything was dissolved no matter what. That's why I went a bit overboard
@@Zonatapio I actually mixed this up and used a gallon milk jug with warm water for every 5 gallon pail I was mixing up. I was great being able to shake the jug with the cap on!! I love your ratio-thank you for doing the video, and I look forward to testing this out on more veggies in my in ground garden.
Have you given too much of this to a tomato plant? If so, what is too much? Also, have you grown any peppers using this method, and does it require any variations?
I've done peppers as well however someone accidentally left the garden gate open and all of my pepper plants were decimated by rabbits in a single night. They seemed to respond well but harder to tell because the peppers grew so much slower than the tomato plants. This year's crop includes peppers and additional rabbit/bird barriers so stay tuned!
same using mb every week 500ml per plant
I only used about 350ml per feeding per plant. How often were you feeding and how did it go? I may up the dose to 500 if yours did well
HELLO! HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU FEED YOUR TOMATOES PER WEEK?
Every 4 days once established. Once every 8-10 days when they're small
How often do you fertilize with this recipe?
Once the tomato plants are mature every other or every third day. When they're below 2 feet about once every 5 days
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Can this be used on plants right after they are set out?
Yup but I'd definitely use less. When my tomatoes were maybe a foot tall I burned them a bit dosing what's in the video. Just cut it back to once a week. Now that they're all around 9 feet I can do it almost daily just fine
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Where is the 1 month tomato update? What do they look like now? I am wondering if the Epsom salts had any diverse affect to the tomatoes. Everything in the video looks great. I am wondering if the Epsom salts harmed the tomatoes. We all need to know before we continue to use this in our garden. Put out a thumbnail at least or comment back to let us know all is ok to proceed. I bought all three bags 5 pounds each bag. Please advice if we can roll with it. I’m ready
Unfortunately I got so busy with work/life soon after this video that I didn't have time to make new video. That said the plants put out an absurd amount of tomatoes, more than I've ever had to the point it was overwhelming. I also had big issues with insects and birds and possibly rodents so at least half my fruit was eaten. If I had more time I would have put a lot of time into netting/fencing but I figured that since I had more tomatoes than I knew what to do with, there was enough to share with the wildlife.
I should have time here soon to post a new video. We're past tomato season here because it's been over 100 for weeks now and one of the planters has died off but I've managed to keep my large planter healthy so I'll focus on that. It's just not producing much now. My goal is to keep them alive through the heat using aluminum netting for shade and fans to get a massive crop in the fall.
To answer your question specifically, the salt didn't seem to harm anything. This is also the first year where I didn't have blossom end rot though I did have to pull a few plants soon after this video because they had lots of black spotting and leaves dying. Figured I'd pull them before it could spread. You could always cut back on the salt as well
Wow glad your results were totally mass numbers. I sure hope you can keep it alive ! You have inspired me and many with your great technique and masterblend here we go! You’ve in a way unlocked a method that can be a game changer. Will follow up with you in a few weeks and let you know ! Much appreciation to your reply back and hope the best for your tomatoes too. Really excited to find out. That most recent video there were so many tomatoes 🍅 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅 it was awesome seeing someone produce in such a way.
Epson salt definitely not the problem. Tomato plants absolutely LOVE Epson salt
Do you have time for a job after all this?
Working from home has it's privileges. Drip lines make it a thousand times easier and I only spend about 10 minutes a day on average pruning, etc. If I let it go for a week it's a nightmare to get caught back up