Feeding Houseplants – A Problem Causer
Eating plants is one of the smallest farmers indoor plant problems. So much has been learned about fertilizers, and there are so many good products and cheap in the market, this election is mostly a problem of personal preference and comfort.
There are different types of soluble fertilizer with balanced nutrients, both organic and chemical. Mix easily with water, and apply when watering the plants. Or you can water with manure “tea,” made by soaking a good bag rot or dehydrated manure in water, and pollute the solution until the color of weak tea. Elements soluble fertilizer quickly available for use by plants.
For the number and frequency of fertilizer application, follow the instructions on the packet – or to feed half the recommended amount twice as often. Half-strength soluble fertilizer packaging solutions can also be used for foliar feeding. Sprayed on the leaves, they are ingested through the pores and gives fast food.
Eating bones mixed with soil pot will slow food during the long period of time. Superphosphate used together, to encourage flowering. Humus, such as leaf mold and manure, some food supplies. Or you can mix the recommended amounts of a balanced or complete commercial fertilizer or sprinkle a small amount on the ground, and scratches and water that makes it most desirable fertilizer when packet analysis with a note like “small elements” or “element added.” Many bagged soil mix with fertilizer comes already in the ground.
When to fertilize more important than how. This is a mistake to use fertilizer as a pick-me-up for plants that are resting or just “not doing well.” Plants need feeding only when they are actively growing – perhaps getting ready to flower – not when they are ill, or resting after a period of rapid growth.
It is natural for plants to stop growing and rest at a time, or even several times a year. Vines passion flowers and plants are stood in silence for a few moments after the bloom period ends. Tropical varieties can take life easy during the dark, cold days of winter. Bulbs and tubers off leaves and stems and into the bed, in the interval. Plants should not be fertilized when they are sleeping or semidormant, but they are willing to accept and use food as a new growth shows that the planting season has started again.
Here are fertilizing “should and should not be done.” Do not eat plants when they are weak and suffering from insect or disease, or rest or sleep, or finish flowering, or for some time after they have been potted in fresh soil, or when the soil dried. Are foster when they grew hard (for the most part, in the spring and early summer), or getting ready to set and flower buds, or if a pot full of roots. Overfeeding any time may confuse you with the causes of poor growth, rare flowers, even a slow death.
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