Side by Side Comparison of: Jobe's

I have used these before, I even break a few up and soak overnight in a gallon of water to use on my indoor plants. (Number one reason indoor plants die=overwatering!) So since I only water indoors once a month it works better to grind up and have it in the water. These are safe for my red compost worms which is important because when they need thinning I add them to my potted plants (Indoors and out) and throw them in any small gardens I make or compost piles. Don't want to hurt the worms!

I used this in my flower bed because my flowers were taking forever to bloom. One spike per plant and now my flowers just keep blooming. I also purchased the vegetable and tomato spikes and all my plants are producing. I recommend all the Jobes food spikes to everyone because they really work!!!

Bought these mainly to perk up a gardenia and shamrock plant. In about two weeks time they both had a lot more leaves and blossoms. I did not find the spikes hard to place in the soil. These were great. You just put them in and forget about them. The price was good and the delivery was fast, Only downside is I want to buy more plants!!!

I purchased this fertilizer for a couple of hanging baskets and some containers. My baskets this year are healthier than ever. Now I attribute a lot of this to an automatic watering system I installed this year, but I have to give the fertilizer some credit too. If you can get by the awful odor when handling the spikes (you don't smell it once they are embedded in the dirt), these are a great purchase.Overall I am happy with this fertilizer and will buy it again.

It's only been a week, but I can already tell a big difference. My house plants were just looking "sad..." I can see that they're fuller and already have new growth. After reading the reviews, I soaked the small stake first in water for about ten minutes, like you do bulbs this time of year before planting. I think that got the release process going faster seeing how you don't water house plants very often.

Hesitatingly I used Jobes 6528 Fertilizer Spikes on a very sad neglected florida palm [variety unknown] on our new property.Now 5 months later it looks healthy & green; has sprouted new growth & almost 9" in width & 5" in height. Very pleased & relieved that Jobes saved this unique tree.

I used this on my garden after planting. I started most of my veggies in solo cups but I started my seeds later than I normally would have so they were on the small side. I sprinkled this over my whole garden as per directions and gave it a good watering. About 2 days later all of my plants started to thrive like crazy! I was actually worried that there was some sort of miracle grow hidden in the ingredients so I had to check, but nope! I highly recommend this stuff.

I bought three of all purpose ones and one for Hydrangea. I have used this all purpose one just once around all my garden plants, and within 2 weeks they are making the difference. My plants include Cherry tree (still very young), lavenders, Japanese ma[les, Peony, Lilies, clematis, Love-in-a -mist, Salvia, Amelia, Calla, Blueberries, and many other garden herbs. The leaves are more elect and stems look more strong also. Hydrangea one was also put around my three different varieties of Hydrangea (see separate review). They are recommended to be used every 2 weeks or so. I was quite surprised to see such changes in just 14 days, and I hurried to order two more of the all purpose and now wanted to try Rose one and just ordered.

I like the product comes in moisture proof bags because I store it outside in humid climate. It smells "authentic". It tends to attract flies due to the smell, but the veggies are in heaven. We are loaded with tomatoes even though we have poor sandy soil and did not prepare properly for the garden by amending the texture. We have had minimal losses mainly due to wildlife. I supply this with organic compost, but since this is our first real garden we were undersupplied. It is easy to apply evenly due to fine texture. I believe I will be purchasing again when I run out of the current supply stock.

I don't have the best soil so I definitely work this into beds before planting.I read one reviewer say they treated this like "snack food" for their plants so I tried the same thing. Great results! You can definitely see a difference when the tomatoes and flowers get a little "snack food" as the entire plant becomes more lush and more flower heads start to pop up on the sunflowers.If you have a dog be aware. Our dogs think that this stuff smells amazing and they used to try to climb into our self watering containers to get to it.

This fertilizer is AMAZING and I love that it's organic. I use this in my container garden. I have a tomato plant that grew to 6-feet tall in a 4-inch pot with this. I had some other plants that were dying, some that were staying really small, and others that just wouldn't produce much, but 1 week after giving them this, they all looked healthy, doubled in size, and started producing veggies :). Can't go wrong with it! Next I'm going to try using it with the new hydroponics system I built.

All purpose fertilizer spikes. This package comes in an 8-ounce ziplock bag with the 50 spikes enclosed. The spikes are easy to push into the ground near the plant site. I like to use these types of fertilizer spikes for plants in the ground especially when first planting to give them an extra boost. I planted a new landscape garden with shrubs and perennials in the front of my house and placed river rock around the shrubs. My concern was the plant itself and making sure it got a good start in this new bed. My husband and I were talking about getting fertilizer spikes the next time we went to the store. I decided to search on Amazon and found this product online at a very reasonable price. This product contains 4% nitrogen, 4% phosphate, and 4% potash derived from feather meal, bone meal, and potash sulfate. The instructions direct you to plant these spikes early in the season or at time of planting for best results. It also indicates to place the spikes in the soil evenly around the edge of the pot according to the size of each container. It recommends plant diameters of 8 inches to place four spikes around the plant. I used this recommendation of 3-4 spikes around each shrub and plant. I placed them after a rainy day so the ground was moist and I was able to push them right into the ground. There were a few of the spikes broken in transit but I could place those half spikes in smaller plants in my house or outside. Great price on Amazon as an add-on order.

Not much to say. They are fertilizer stakes for my indoor plants.

These were easy to use and whether it is a coincidence or not out shrub, Tabochina produced flowers for the first time in 3 years. Easy to use and our plants look healthy in their pots

My plants are thriving with this. However, I did not know it was made out of fish and chicken​ pellets. I would have preferred an organic vegetable fertilizer. They should advertise it a bit more prominently

I wanted to use these organic fertilizer spikes for a few indoor plants that I have that weren’t doing too well. I broke off a couple of small pieces and put it directly into the soil for my aloe plant and dropped a piece into the water for my bamboo. Those two seem to being doing well – the aloe plant especially looks more perked up and has grown a bit. The bamboo looks ok. I also put a piece in the soil for my organic basil plant, unfortunately it is doing no better than it was prior to adding the fertilizer - I'm going to try dissolving it in water and watering it with the liquid to see if that makes a difference - it may just be the plant, since it was store bought. My indoor hyacinth has had no change either. I have a couple of self-watering herb jars I plan on putting together within the next couple of weeks, so I’m hoping after they sprout that this fertilizer will help make those flourish like the aloe – will update this review after those have been planted and some time has passed. So far I’ve had mixed results. Oh, another thing... They weirdly smell kind of like beef jerky.

Well not the skinny spikes I thought I would get but I can make them work, They last a while so it looks like a slow break down, which is good, it shouldn't gorge the plants with food but let them take it in slowly, good product.

I hope it will be helpfull

Did fantastic and goes very far..

Appears to work well. If you are concerned about the smell it stays in the bag for the most part. I did not notice once I applied it to the plants.

The fertilizer works well, and the bag will last a long time. Overall very good.My only problem is that, because you use relatively little- and because it doesn't dissolve in water, I found it hard to distribute the product evenly. My veggies didn't seem to mind and perked up right away. Peppers with leaves that were turning pale green even started regaining color.It does not smell good, but the smell doesn't stick around after you finish using it. Not great, but no real problem unless you are very sensitive to smells.My take- Go for it, it's a good value and I saw good results, just don't try to put it in your watering can.

We used this for a small vegetable and herbs garden and it works great!

The key to using this is that it must be mixed in with the soil. It's a simple fertilizer that is ideal for long-term soil investment and soil cultivation, intended to create a sustainable nutrient balance with ideal moisture conditions, with the intended goal of assisting other soil treatment options. I've added azomite, Mycorrhizae Fungi, earthworm castings, sphagnum moss, and liquid kelp to organic garden soil and it seems to be working for the most part. The secret is getting ideal soil moisture and watering consistency to help sustain organic biodiversity and consistent decomposition. You may also notice that the nutrients you are adding a pretty mild, though that seems to be expected of organic.

pretty small it is more for a large potted plant than a bush

Very flimsy packaging/poor performance in transit. Arrived broken with contents falling out.

Unfortunately, these attracted the neighbor dog to out garden & he dug up a few of our plants trying to get to the fertilizer spikes so we didn't get to see any positive results.

I had ordered these because I couldn't find the fertilizer beads I was looking for. Now, of course, I've found them and ordered a huge sack. These spikes are probably o.k. but they are harder to put in the pots than the beads are.

I grow a lot of organic herbs in pots so that I can bring them inside for the winter. The spikes are ok but it takes lots. A bag of granular works better for me.

Used 1 per month on my small and large house plants. All were happy with no ill effects. They dissolve easily. I do wish the shape a bit easier to stick into the soil, as the shape is broad, big, chunky and they crumble easily. So you need something to help darn near nail it into the soil unless the soil is soft, you can then make a hole first and then insert a spike. They are about the size of a ladies pinky finger (a chubby one (no pun intended)). I would hardly call them a spike.I would prefer purchasing this in powder form, it would probably be easier to use.The quality is nice and apparently natural, my dog and cat both eat them if they can, also without ill effects:)

Didn't seem to do much.

This fertilizer takes much more effort than miracle grow or other liquid plant foods. It also has a strong unpleasant smell. It took me a long time to pour the recommended amount into each hold before planting and to sprinkle around the base of existing plants. But my plants do look nice and healthy since using it. I'm sure it's a great product but just warning that it takes more effort than others.

Not sure how many stars to give. Too soon to see how product works, but a word of caution...was packaged poorly and with no space between sealing tape and product. As a result, cutting open box opened the front side of top bag even though i was careful. Tried to pour into a container, but formed a disgusting cloud of pretty noxious smell/chemicals that made me have to leave the room and created a gross sediment layer on my counter. Be careful, and handle as a hazardous chemical.

I really like the jobes fertilizer spikes, but this one didn't really do it for me. My plants grew a little more, but when I used Fox Farm "Big Bloom" my plants grew 4 inches in one night.

Nothing really special about this product,

Did not notice a difference in my plants.

Not good enough for seedlings. This may be OK for transplanting but none of my seeds got enough nutrients with this stuff alone.

Arrived on time don't see any results

I used 2 bags in one 'serving.' I was surprised to see how many spikes it recommends per plant. way too labor intensive.

Every time I used it, my pots would also grow mushrooms (they thrived, but no change in my plants). Tossed it.

I added a small sprinkle around the base of every pepper/eggpplant in my garden and completely regret it! My sweet/hot pepper were affected the most, within 48 hours of adding Jobes I noticed some new blossoms forming on my peppers (Nice!) Yeah, I thought so too until a few days later all of my bottom leaves started to turn yellow. Most of the blossoms formed/opened within 72 hours after adding Jobes organic have yellowed and fallen off. Plants were lush and green before adding Jobes. If anyone is interested my soil consists of; Local organic soil, compost, wormcastings, and azomite rock dust minerals. Plant were lush, dark green and healthy and retaining fruit buds before application of this fertilizer. Now I'm stuck trying to get my poor plants back to square one after putting faith in Jobes line of fertilizers...

I was looking for a 10 10 10 plant food and this was listed in such. I have just received it and it clearly states it is 4 4 4 plant food. Beware of what you purchase.

Killed my fiddle leaf tree..

After fertilizing the soil mushrooms started to grow. Cannot get rid of them((((((

It hasn't done too well for my potted veggies, especially tomatoes. Perhaps the nutritious stuff is draining out when I water and I need to apply the fertilizer more frequently?

Every plant I have planted with this soil is now growing nasty mushrooms. Dont buy this!

Would not recommend. Did not increase the size or bounty of my gardent at all compared to previous years.

If you have pets, better pass on this one, they will get sick...and they did...ugh

Very disappointed in this company! I am new to gardening and thought a vegetable garden would be a fun thing to do with my twin two-year-old girls, while at the same time, being able to control what goes into the soil that my food is grown in. When I received my fertilizer in the mail (I was excited to try it) ripped open the top, and flipped the bag over to quickly scan the ingredients before I popped a couple in my small vegetable pots. We eat as organically as possible (initiated by my cancer diagnosis and our tiny humans health) and are in the process of removing dairy from our diet. So, I was definitely a little confused by terms such as "feather meal" and "bone meal". After some quick research I found it disturbing that my "organic fertilizer" contained ground up bones from slaughterhouse animals?!? Again, I went back to the product, disappointed that I haven't done my research, only to find that "bone meal" is not listed as an ingredient or even indicated anywhere in the Amazon details!!! So I browsed the reviews and did not see any other question about it from the 123 reviews…??? Like most people, my husband and I rely on these reviews on purchasing anything really. And I purchase 90% (I'd say) of my non-grocery items through Amazon. Unfortunately, after reading a few of these "reviews" I suspect that these people might not be "satisfied customers" as much as they are ghostwriters. It's disheartening really.Overall – I am absolutely pissed. While bone meal may have somehow slipped under the "organic" umbrella, to not list it under the product description (or ANYWHERE on the page, even the picture) feels deceitful… Even if only by omission. Other reviews made reference to their pets digging it up and eating it while One writer joked that at least it was organic! Bone meal is poisonous to cats and dogs!! The pet poison help line listed side effects of ingestion as:Nausea, Drooling, Vomiting, Diarrhea, Bloody vomit, Lethargy, Abdominal pain, Bloat, Pancreatitis!! Seriously?!?! Yeah, no thanks. Not an "organic treat" that I am putting in reach of my toddlers and dogs!!!! Thank you but no thanks. Apparently 123 other people are either aware of this component or were simply OK with it...unbelievable

I tried these in my veggie garden and my house plants, and my tree sprouts. I saw absolutely no difference whatsoever. Best fertilizer is worm tea. I will continue to use that and not try these quick conveniences that don't work. Oh and each plant requires about 8, so you may think you're getting a lot for the money. You're not.

ahhhhh- smells really bad

Doesnt work

This stuff constantly molds in soil. I have started making a tea with it to feed veggies in liquid form. Had to change all soil after mold, what a pain.

NOT TO GOOD

This does not do anything for my garden, waste of money.