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Plant Food Spikes

Fail

The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Plant Food Spikes is a Fail.

Flapen Score
44
44 / 100
Ranks 7,439 of 8,839 Patio, Lawn & Garden niches · −12 vs the category median of 56
Market size
$283K/yr205K searches / yr
90-day growth
+24.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
81%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 76 sellers

Flapen Score

Plant Food Spikes against its category

The dotted line is the Patio, Lawn & Garden average. Past it, Plant Food Spikes is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

44Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plant Food Spikes market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Plant Food Spikes 205K times last year and spent an estimated $283K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Demand peaks in May. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 16.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 205K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 16.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +24.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $283K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
205K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+24.6%
Conversion, latest week
16.9%
Market size, estimated
$283Ka year
Peak month
May1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
plant food spikes46K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $8.18.

Listings sell for $8.18 on average, from $4.36 to $16.29. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At $8.18 that is $16K to $20K a year per listing.

Average price
$8.18under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.36–$16.29
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
$16K–$20K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

91% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #292 within Soils, Mulches & Planting Media. It carries 7,687 reviews at 4.55 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
91%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#292in Soils, Mulches & Planting Media
Average rating
4.55 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
7,687per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 44 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
44 months

Products

Top Plant Food Spikes products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 81% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

6 rising

Sellers

76

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

81%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 175%
  • Brand 28%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Plant Food Spikes search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

6K4KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: May · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Plant Food Spikes search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • plant food spikes46K/yr
  • plant fertilizer sticks20K/yr
  • plant food sticks21K/yr
  • plant spikes17K/yr
  • fertilizer sticks15K/yr
  • miracle grow sticks7K/yr
  • miracle grow plant food spikes7K/yr
  • plant spikes for outdoor plants5K/yr
  • plant fertilizer spikes6K/yr
  • miracle grow spikes6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plant Food Spikes

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

47%of positive reviews mention “Plant Growth”
21%of negative reviews mention “Plant Growth”
0.2%of orders come back
“The spikes arent balanced for general growth”
A buyer, on “Plant Growth”21% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Plant Food Spikes questions

Answered from the same tracked data.