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echo: home-n-grdn
to: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES
from: WL-SKI
date: 1998-03-10 20:24:00
subject: 25-10-10 fertilizer

 CG>> Why would they label it specifically "orchid fertilizer"
 CG>> instead of  "green growth"?
 PR> Marketing.  "You'll never go broke underestimating the
 PR> intelligenceof the American public."
While I wouldn't necessarily disagree with PR, it isn't always
*just* marketing.  If you read on the label, noticing the "source"
of the ingredients, it may shed some light on an answer to your
question.  Orchids grow either *in* trees, or *under* trees... and
their normal source of fertilizer would be bird droppings, (besides
the normal "food" that they would receive from the (nitrogen-rich)
rain, and normal decomposition of the stuff falling on them and
their habitat... It is also highly probable that the source was
chosen to influence the pH of the "food", specifically *for* orchids.
We most always think that food is food, but it isn't always so!
They don't even break down at the same rate of speed...
cheers,
WL Sakowski
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