OLD Flower-Tone

[shlacm]

I found a stash of about 10 5lb. bags of the OLD Epsoma Flower-Tone at a small nursery/garden store locally... I'm wondering if it is close enough to the OLD Tomato-Tone that I could use it (possibly with some minor adjustments) and get similar results...???

It is 3-5-7 (vs 4-7-10 for OLD Tomato-Tone, 3-4-5 for NEW Flower-Tone)

Looking at the Guaranteed Analyses, the differences are as follows:
(Flower-Tone values listed first, Tomato-Tone values listed 2nd)

Total Nitrogen 3.0%, 4.0%
Ammoniacal Nitrogen .4%, 2.0%
Other Water Soluble Nitrogen .1%, .3%
Water Insoluble Nitrogen 2.5%, 1.7%
Available Phosphate 5.0%, 7.0%
Soluble Potash 7.0%, 10.0%

Everything else is identical until you get to the "Derived From:"
Flower-Tone contains the following (that Tomato-Tone does NOT): Animal Tankage, Corn Gluten, Alfalfa Meal, Humates, Gypsum

Tomato-Tone contains the following (that Flower-Tone does NOT): Feather Meal, Bone Meal

[puttgirl]

I think the animal tankage would have me a little worried.

[shlacm]

lol, I definitely thought that did NOT sound very good... whatever it was!

Anyway, I looked it up on-line and found this definition: "fertilizer consisting of the dried and ground residues of animal carcasses"

Blech!!! But not much different from dried blood and bone meal.

[dice]

You could probably use that. Just use a little more. Where you
would have used one handful of tomato-tone, use 1 and a half
handfuls of flower-tone. (I did not calculate exactly how much
to use to match N-P-K ratios, since the ingredients are
somewhat different, will break down at different rates in the
soil, etc).