Superthrive

[elitebettas]

How much do you guys use per gallon?

[mayres]

I have an squeeze dropper that I use with mine - just a couple drops per gallon. A bottle will last a LONG TIME!

[arleneg]

I, too, use a squeeze dropper and put a couple of drops in a gallon.

[snowballsarebad]

Same here, minus the dropper!

[Vivienne]

Does anyone use Superthrive WITH Worm Tea? How often? How much?

I routinely use Worm Tea... watering and misting. Can the Superthrive be misted?

[sandra]

A couple of drops with a medicinal dropper, sometimes more than a few drops per gallon. Typically use it when I'm repotting a plant and have done some cutting. Vivienne, it's for promoting root growth and really not useful on the plant itself although, I don't think it could hurt the plant.

One big thing I've noticed about the worm tea.....it's nasty when sprayed on anything other than orchids, especially cacti and succulents and african violets. I've never intentionally used it on these plants but sometimes just them being close to the orchids that Ive sprayed with the worm tea has caused the plants to shrivel and lose their shape, fade and mark up the leaves with this nasty brownish discoloration, and cause fungal growth on the violets.

[gore42]

One thing to keep in mind about Superthrive is that it's surprisingly acidic. I'm assuming that they use some type of mild acid to dissolve all of those vitamins and hormones. Since there's to little of it per gallon, it probably doesn't make much difference if you have alkaline water to begin with, but if you're using something like RO/Distilled/Rain water with a neutral or slightly acidic pH, it is worth buffering it slightly with something like ProTekt, especially if you're growing calcareous species, like many of the Paphs.

- Matthew Gore