Jobe’s Organics Granular Garden Fertilizer, Easy Plant Care Fertilizer for Fruit and Citrus Plants and Trees, 4 lbs Bag

I like this fertilizer

The media could not be loaded. I purchased Jobes fertilizer before and was always happy with it. I also know how it's supposed to look.Last time I purchased "citrus and fruit jobes" on Amazon I knew the product was not good right away. Usually it looks like little dark roundish granules (see the pic of palm fertilizer I got from the same seller here on amz), but the citrus one was light gray rough rocky powder that smelled way too much of manure. The other times the product would have a tolerable smell of manure, that's expected, but this bad product I got this time smelled undearably. Additionally when I opened the bags (I got 2) the chicken manure smelling powder flew up into my face, on my hair and clothes. I thought they changed the formula, that's why it looked so different.The caducity date was good (see the pic), so I added the fertilizer to most of my fruit plants and citrus trees pots, worked it into the top layer as usual, watered as usual.Fastforward a few days, I discovered that all of my pots that I fertilized with this had infestation of house flies larvae. I was shocked and disgusted. I used a natural remedy to try and kill them, but most of my plants are dead and I am still seeing if the other ones survive.You can see in my video and pictures of larvae thriving inside the soil and agonizing after I drenched infested pots with my thermonuclear natural solution.My best guess at what happened is that some insect ate the manure component of the fertilizer while it was in the bag, it lost its granular shape and became powdery, then I used it in my pots, and it became readily available for flies to reproduce in my moist warm pot soil spruced with powdered chicken waste.That never happened to me before and I do gardening for 9 years. Only this time with this smelly powdery failure of a fertilizer.I contacted the company thru their website, because my return window closed 6 days ago, but no reply from them. I am going to try to call, will update if they stand behind their product.I am out of money, out of my tomatoes for the season, out of hours of labor to grow the seedlings and then to kill the infestation, out of luck with aftersale support.That's some serious bad luck with this product.If you see your fertilizer powdered, return asap, don't use it, or you will find yourself in a conundrum similar to mine.Update: customer support agent responded and promised to send replacement. I will update review if I get it. So far so good.Update 2: changed title and star rating from 1 to 5. Just 1 day later I received 2 bags from Debbie from CS of Jobe's, opened and yay! same amazing quality that I've come to expect from Jobe's. I appreciate their wonderful product and great customer support. I also purchased from them flower fertilizer and palm fertilizer. They have earned a fan for life in me. Thank you Jobe's!

Don’t be fooled into buying separate fertilizers for your fruit trees and your citrus trees. This stuff works on both fruit AND citrus trees. Amazing! Congratulations to your marketing team on the name. They must have worked hard on that one.

My lemon tree loves this stuff! I looked at YouTube to be sure this stuff really works from people who used this before and they said it was good just the smell is awful. I use gloves and has a cup for it so I never has to have contact with it. I don't try to smell it but its not a smell i can smell after putting it in my soil for feeding time. I have noticed the leaves are vibrant and have more leaves than I started faster then just watering it. I know my season is up for feeding but will keep using to see how my tree survive in the Spring and summer of next year.

We use this to fertilize our blackberry patch and other plants. Works great.

A friend gave me a piece of their banana tree. During transport the root was bent and broken and leaves were damaged. As it turned brown and started to "die" I thought she was a goner. Friend recommended this fertilizer and told me to just water it every few days until it takes root again and it will come back. When I saw these babies sprout 3 weeks after using the fertilizer I was ecstatic!

My citrus trees did not yield a single piece of fruit last season, and other fruit trees yielded minimal in production.My soil is adobe…it’s hard and not very yielding. We do have automatic watering. And, I have gotten good fruit in the past. So, i wanted something that would supplement whatever is missing in my soil.I followed the directions, adding the dry mix along the drip lines….i cant say if this supplement did the trick, but this year we have an amazing number of buds and young fruit on the trees. As the only thing that changed is this supplement, i have to give it a strong recommendation.

I have no idea if this stuff works since it too soon to tell. I put it on my fig, Pomegranate, Lime, and Banana trees. This stuff smells so bad, but thankfully it only stinks in the bag. I have never smelled granules like this is my existence. Perhaps I didn't mix this into the soil well enough, but the top of my banana plant soil had a ton of mold. I repotted and will wait to see what happens.The pellets do hold together nicely so hopefully it releases slowly over time and I see good results, but it's a no from me.UPDATE: I am noticing a lot of dead leaves on my Pomegranate. Did not seem to affect the figs, lime, or banana plants.