General Hydroponics General Organics BioThrive Grow, Plant Food, 4-3-3, 1 qt.

This product and their Bloom fertilizer are the best on the market for growing in soil. I used to use fish emulsion exclusively, but I'm getting much better results with this stuff. This is my best garden year ever and the only difference is I'm using this instead of fish emulsion. Incredible, rapid growth, strong healthy plants, TONS of buds, and fruit setting. Be sure to have your soil tested, I can't stress this enough, otherwise you're just shooting in the dark. If you don't do that, you simply don't know if you need to add more calcium, magnesium, etc....This product DOES NOT have enough calcium if your soil is low to begin with. It drives me nuts when people say their "secret" to growing great peppers or tomatoes is to spray them with epsom salts...LMAO....yeah, that's a great "secret" if your soil's magnesium is low, otherwise IT DOES NOTHING. This product also attracts earthworms like crazy, probably because it contains molasses. I'm slowly switching over to soil amendments and granular fertilizer to save money, but if you're a new gardener or if you have a brand new garden without amended soil, you NEED to use a liquid fertilizer like this. Start with a half dose- 1teaspoon per 2 gallons, while they are young, then move up to 1 teaspoon per gallon...once per week should be enough. This stuff is POTENT, so you can easily half the dose and still get great results, unlike a lot of fertilizers. One cool trick I've started doing is to buy huge feed bags of alfalfa pellets from a feed store and cover my entire garden with an inch thick layer of them right before winter, when my garden is mostly done. Till them in the first six inches of soil well....then in the spring, you won't need any of this fertilizer for the first 6 weeks or so. You might not even need this grow formula if you do that, go straight to the Bloom. Alfalfa is the greatest nitrogen fertilizer ...try it, you'll thank me.

General Organics Biothrive provides quality nutrients, resulting in quality product. Self stabilizing pH, compatible with all media...keeps your microbes happy in living soil, in turn keeping your plants happy, healthy and thriving.

Excellent in my hydroponic lettuce grow garden! Much better than what came with my machine. Plants taste so much better too

This fertilizer works well but has a terrible smell crazy stink but my plants do well

Been using this, usually in the General Hydroponics Go Box. They didn't have that this time so I bought Veg/bloom both in 1qt. Plants love this stuff, easy to mix, and bottle lasts a good while. Only gripe I would have is the Go Box is out of stock a lot as I would rather buy this as the complete bundle given the option.

EXCELLENT! Yes, a bit on the expensive side while comparing to other generic brands, even its sister brand "General Hydroponics", however you are conscious about the environment and especially about your health, and are focused on growing organically, I would say this is the best option out there. My plants are extremely happy with it and I decided to do my own product test where I have 4 plants receiving the Bio Thrive Grown and 2 that are not (just water), all other conditions being the same. I can assure you that the difference in 5 weeks is of about 4-5" in hight and about 6' inches in diameter all around, so I can assure you I will be coming back for more. Highly recommended

This product is amazing, I was using fish emulsion alone in containers with potting soil and adding this has done wonders. My tomatoes, cucumbers, basil and others were almost double in size the next morning. Awesome. If it smells good I doubt it’s off much use to your plants. I see a lot of annoyance at the smell, but what expectations did you have going into natural fertilizers. Doesn’t your favorite nutritious meal have some smell? Add some fish to the mix, you may think it reeks, but the plants love it.

I’ve used this product along with all of the others in the organics line to feed tomatoes, cucumbers, kale and many other fruits and vegetables. I was able to grow an abundance of quality produce and really believe you could too if you used them properly.

Good organic fertilizer works well

Great

So far so good!

The smell is something else.. but aeroponics systems love it, and it dissipates quickly in water.

Works great