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From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: A couple of questions
Message-ID: <1993Feb1.172140.10395@iscsvax.uni.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 93 17:21:40 -0600
References: <1993Jan29.160254.24198@news.columbia.edu>
Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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In article <1993Jan29.160254.24198@news.columbia.edu>, kevin@howdy.cc.columbia.edu (Kevin Harris) writes:
> 
> Recently, in the Henrietta's Nursery catalog, I saw that they are selling
> vitamin B1 tablets for US $.01 each. As a believer in the benefits of using
> Superthrive when transplanting/repotting my houseplants, I was wondering if
> these tablets would do just as well (disolved in a bucket of water) or if
> there's some super-duper secret ingredient in Superthrive that I'd be missing.

B1 retails in the chemical supply catalogs for about $20/100 grams, which
is enough B1 to treat several corn fields.... ;-)

Yes, you can buy B1 tablets and dissolve them in water, a la Superthrive
or Transplantone.  An equally effective substitute is an ordinary 1-a-day
type vitamin tablet, dissolved in a quart or so of warm water.  Vitamins
+ iron are sometimes marginally more effective, esp. in poor soils.

Kay Klier  Biology Dept  UNI


