critterologist said:Yes, $5 for shipping if you take advantage of the free sample offer on their site. Not bad, like you said.

Acorn offer has been closed, so if you missed it, go to their website for the free (just pay shipping) sample!

it is still worth it to have to pay for $5 free shipping if you missed the free offer with 100 acorns, if you want to try first before buying a big size. They also have weekly contests where you submit a photo of the result of your Agro-Thrive and you could win free fertilizer.

Update: (Sadly this one didn't make it), I transferred to a different pot, thinking it will do better, but it rotted.

The spider mites would not stop attacking the seedlings on these pots and without healthy leaves 2 rotted.

So I had to remove unhealthy chewed up leaves of the other seedlings and they are in rehab with general purpose Agro-Thrive. Without leaves these 1 month adeniums have 5% chance.



I have to declare the Agro-Thrive the winner versus the Miracle Gro. When I repotted the adeniums from the green pots to the clay pots, the roots were not robust and just a few days after repotting the caudex of one continued to deteriorate looks very dehydrated, which means it is not accepting water. So I have to give it a general purpose Agro-Thrive today to see if it will help it plump back up.

The 2 in the front are the Miracle Gro with 3 weeks headstart have smaller leaves and the 2 tall ones with lots of leaves are Agro-Thrive


9/13- Shows severe dehydration - first application general purpose Agro-Thrive


First application 8/28: see how dehydrated the caudex is, with dimple on it, meaning it is not taking any water.


Update 9/13: This is now definitely coming back from severe dehydration and growing healthy new leaves.

Thanks for posting the conclusion to your AgroThrive vs Miracle Gro experiment! I really appreciate your effort not just with the experimentation but also with posting the photos as you went along.

Holding onto mine to use with seedlings, although I may break it out for a couple of houseplants that got too dry..

critterologist said:Thanks for posting the conclusion to your AgroThrive vs Miracle Gro experiment! I really appreciate your effort not just with the experimentation but also with posting the photos as you went along.

Holding onto mine to use with seedlings, although I may break it out for a couple of houseplants that got too dry..

You are ! My non-believer and always skeptical hubby can only say wow!

Hey, it's a small data set, but you have the photos to back up your conclusion. That's at least a good enough start to warrant continuing to use it. I'm saying "wow" also!

I'm hoping other people will check in here with their impressions.

What a nice Sunday surprise from hubby. He is a believer of "a happy wife is a happy life"!


A bit too much though. This is not 64 ounces. This is actually "64 makes 64 gallons" each is a 1 gallon size and winter is just around the corner.

Hope this will keep until spring. I have to check for expiration date.

GigiPlumeria said:What a nice Sunday surprise from hubby. He is a believer of "a happy wife is a happy life"!


A bit too much though. This is not 64 ounces. This is actually "64 makes 64 gallons" each is a 1 gallon size and winter is just around the corner.

Hope this will keep until spring. I have to check for expiration date.

From their website:

"AgroThrive products' shelf life is 8 years and running. We tested samples of various ages, ranging from 0-8 years old and found that there was no significant soil functionality difference. From the physical shelf life aspect, the samples do sediment which can be easily resuspended by shaking before use."

@Hamwild. Good to know I don't have to rush and over feed my plants.

Hubby always tells me I am growing a jungle in a deed restricted community. This time it might really come true

Copied from Adenium HELP! chat: July 27, 2021 original post:

GigiPlumeria said:Redid and tied this up. Removed the majority of the leaves. Seems ends have calloused and no visible rots. (Hopefully non, where I can't see it.)


I repotted in a smaller pot on Sunday with 40% sand and perlite (that is all I have). I watered it once (mixed with hydrogen peroxide).


If this will recover it will have a bruise, I accidentally scraped its skin. I'm not going to worry about it for now. Sand and perlite is moist. Hopefully it will not rot. The caudex seems dehydrated.

GigiPlumeria said: August 28, 2021: first application of "general purpose" Agro-Thrive
Rehab - 1 month today, still not dead but no new flush of leaves. 50% survival rate.

GigiPlumeria said:9/05/2021update: definitely shooting out new leaves and caudex has fattened up after using the "general purpose" Agro-Thrive. I gave it second dose yesterday:

Update: 9/25/2021 (less than a month from initial application!)
I am giving credit where credit is due! "general purpose" Agro-Thrive for saving my beautiful desert rose. There are roots coming out the bottom now that I had to put this inside a bigger pot to allow root growth without repotting until spring next year!


And the tips (look at the second picture) I cut from this desert rose is successfully grafted and growing too on another "general purpose" Agro-thrive rootstock:

Original Post: Sept 06

GigiPlumeria said:Oh I do have one extra that is not part of my adenium Agro-thrive challenge. Over a month ago, my husband came home with a hanging orchid pot with an orchid that died from crown rot. Our friend thought I could revive a dead orchid . But when I looked the roots seemed to be healthy but the orchid was dead and for few weeks there was no signs of life. So whenever I have left over, "general purpose" Agro-thrive, I just pour it on this "dead orchid".

Look closely, this might be a wishful thinking, but there is a baby shoot coming out. Now I have to buy orchid bark to see if it will survive.


Update: surprisingly healthy roots, removed dead stuff, cleaned and soaked with hydrogen peroxide and water for a few minutes.

New look, soaked the entire pot and bark with mixture of general purpose Agro-Thrive and rainwater. Giving it 10% survival rate.

Update Oct 10: I'm starting to be optimistic that this is going to make it!



Closer inspection shows the new growth has a new healthy root. Makes me feel bad about all the orchids I tossed over the years thinking they are not going to be revived.

GigiPlumeria said:What a nice Sunday surprise from hubby. He is a believer of "a happy wife is a happy life"!


A bit too much though. This is not 64 ounces. This is actually "64 makes 64 gallons" each is a 1 gallon size and winter is just around the corner.

Hope this will keep until spring. I have to check for expiration date.

My arms are having a hard time pouring just enough Agro-Thrive I need to use and shaking that 1 gallon is heavier than I thought. It was a good thing I saved the sample size bottle instead of tossing it. (My hack.)



I only need to shake the big gallon when I am feeding the big plants. But I can use the smaller one when feeding my seedlings.

6.7 lbs at least that is what one gallon of fuel weighs

crawgarden said:6.7 lbs at least that is what one gallon of fuel weighs

Yep my tiny arms are having a hard time shaking it I need more arm-strength exercise!

To bad they don't bottle it in a container like this, where you can squeeze it into the pouring spout

First application 8/28: see how dehydrated the caudex is, with dimple on it, meaning it is not taking any water.


Update 9/13: This is now definitely coming back from severe dehydration and growing healthy new leaves.

Update 10/13:


Update: 10/19


Update: 10/24

9/13- Shows severe dehydration - first application general purpose Agro-Thrive


Update 10/30: This is now revived, using the "general purpose" Agro-Thrive and ready for Halloween to a beautiful home, who will take good care of it:



She will be trick or treating with her sister:

Also, not sure if this is just a fluke but I started using "fruit and flower" Agro-Thrive to my blooming adeniums. I noticed that the seedpods are the biggest and healthiest I've seen them this year.
9/30 seedpod spotted: Photo when I first noticed the seedpods of these 3 desert roses:




10/10 seedpods:




No picture of the 3rd seedpod.

10/28 update so roughly 1 month old seedpods:







Will update once they are 2 months old.

Posted August 01:

GigiPlumeria said: These are 2 more that are my weekend haul, hope I can revive these using Agro-Thrive

Oct 21 Updated photos : Trimmed both on Sept 26 and fed Agro-Thrive (will update next spring):

What a great transformation!


Can't wait for both to bloom!

Thank you Agro-Thrive for helping my 10+ years old adenium "Sweetie Pie" recover. She is special because she is a Mother's Day gift. I almost lost her to root rot last June 2021. I had to cut it almost half the original height, so there were no roots below the caudex. She was only relying on aerial roots for survival and I had been feeding her "general purpose" Agro-Thrive.

Can't wait when this will be full of blooms!
I repotted her into a shallow fancy pot and since beginning of spring I switched to "Flower and Fruit".

July 29 - first applied Agro-Thrive:


Update September 18, 2021