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Fertilizer For house plants

#1 User is offline   Abbylovi 

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Posted 21 November 2008 - 05:58 PM

I get the feeling that I should be fertilizing some or all of my house plants.
Should I and if so, any recommendations for good brands?

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Posted 21 November 2008 - 06:45 PM

QUOTE(Abbylovi @ Nov 21 2008, 09:58 AM) View Post
I get the feeling that I should be fertilizing some or all of my house plants.
Should I and if so, any recommendations for good brands?


Depends on the plant. Most of my really green-thumbed friends use Miracle Gro Indoor Plant Food once in a while and water with tea on a regular basis. Overdoing is worse than underdoing, as a general rule. And at least once in a while, every few months, put the plants in a tub of water for a couple of hours to saturate and rinse out salts. I do this once a week to my orchids. Ferns like to stay a wee bit moist all the time and they are happy with just tea. Epiphytes like Christmas cacti like darkness early in October. My 50+ year olds I inherited are starting to bloom already. Just buy a book on indoor plants. Some like to completely dry out before re-watering, some are acid lovers.
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