Must be from McDonalds

If he told it wouldn't be a secret anymore

Steroids...

Secret Sauce used spring and fall 1-2 TBS per plant from the following mix,
12-16lbs Osmocote Plus
4lbs Muriate of Potash
3lbs cotton seed meal
3lbs bone meal (not in the Fall)
3lbs blood meal
6.75lbs garden lime
1 bag of miracle grow soluble fertilizer

Also use milorginite in the spring, sometime fall if peter cotton tail shows up.

Wow Stan thanks
Do you put this in everything or just daylilies?
Peter rabbit shows up quite frequently here in spring and summer so I also add milorganite.

A couple questions on the tonic Stan - is there anything in your "tonic" that would not be good to use in the Northern climates? Also, on the Osmocote Plus is there a specific one? What size on the Miracle Grow? I'm really thinking of trying this!

Ginny, I have used it around everything.

The Osmocote Plus has micro nutrients in it. Here is a link to check out,
http://www.plantersplace.com/o...

My only thought on Northern climates is cotton seed & blood meal is mostly nitrogen on the scale, new growth could get bit by an early frost.

Stan, have you ever thought about adding some Azomite into your concoction? Azomite is some amazing stuff in my opinion.

Dave would you recommend adding it to Stan's tonic for my zone 5b or would I eliminate the blood meal and cottonseed and add the Azomite here?

All are great ingredients. Azomite is basically volcanic material, but it had a ton of minerals. I use it every spring.

A few years back at a NALS convention, a soil pathologist and plant biologist said minerals is usually a key factor to plants not growing well and flourishing, and a lot of times it's because of a lack of copper minerals in the soil.

But if you think of it in this way, in nature they don't get fertilizer and all that other stuff. They have what's in the ground, but it all generally replenishes itself naturally through the season. Rains wash in new minerals, and then in the fall it gets a natural replenish from the leaves and everything else dying and making a natural compost.

Ginny, forgot to give you an answer regarding the MG... large bag. I buy the big tub with 5 bags in it. I only use 1 bag in the mix.

Dave, I'll look into that Azonite. Thanks for the recommendation.

Well it seems I was blessed with a couple bonuses when I purchased my new daylilies on the classifieds. This was my order with bonus plants:

Meerkat Manor
Cinderella Story
Bloodfire
Asheville Social Butterfly

I just went back and looked at a post I made from May of 2017. I was because I was up to 185 different registered daylilies and I thought I must be nuts! After adding these to the list, and also after I have now identified several NOIDS, it seems I'm now up to 652 And I thought I was nuts in 2017 I'm pretty sure it's because of joining NGA "National Gardening Addictions" and Daylily Pictures on Facebook Somebody better stop me before it really gets out of control

Osmocote Plus is a lot more expensive, but I think it is worth it. I only started using it this year though.

At what point would you consider it "really out of control"?

Hmmmmmm. Not yet I'm sure

I am literally out of room here. A suburban lot and four dogs has me at about 160 varieties. The last two I added this fall were two seedlings a Web friend shared with me this summer. I have no list

We can tell you how to cram in a few more Sherry

Ok I just lost my message after having it 3/4 done with pictures. So I am just going to list them because I don't have another hour to put them back in Sorry Received this fall and all planted already.
Forsyth White Cloud
Colby Coventry bonus
Cool Confections bonus
Blue Riviera bonus
Pretzel Power bonus
What Nerve
Home of the Free
Mahogany Magic
These next 3 are from Bedmaker all late bloomers
Arrogant Bastard
Wesley Lee Kirby
Ruffled Strawberry Parfait
These are from a trade with Larry
Lift me Higher trade
South Seas trade
Primal Scream trade
Trying to tell myself no more buying unless they are on my want list. Problem is I just keep adding to my list if I see something I like

Awesome

Only 89,500 more to go, Ginny.