Nutricote/Dynamite vs Osmocote vs ClassiCote

[Zozzl]

Anyone have any comments on the differences between Nuticote/Dynamite versus Osmocote and Jack's ClassiCote. I hadn't heard of Classicote until last week when I saw it at Tropical Plant Products and I was wondering if anyone has used it. Also curious about the use of Osmocote.

What say you experts?

[WhiteRabbit]

I'm sooooo not an expert, but when I was investigating the use of pellet fertilizer, I was advised to use nutricote/dynamite rather than osmocote, as nutricote is controlled, slow release - I don't know about Classicote - I'm interested to see what others may have to say

[glengary54]

I found this on another board;
"I personally dont recommend osmocote due to its release action. I recommend Dynamite/Nutricote. The difference is that Osmocote is temperature release and Dynamite/Nutricote is chemical release. The difference is that Osmocote will just sit there no matter how much you water it if the temperature is cool, once the temperature is above 80 F it starts to slowly release. Although if the temperatures get 90 or above, it all disperses at once, over fertilizing your plants and then there is no more left to fertilize later on."


However Dynamite/Nutricote is a chemical release fertilizer. What that does is every time there is water and moisture that is surrounding the fertilizer capsule, it slowly releases into the soil.