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title: "Oh! Em! Gheeeee! Ignored my plants mostly yesterday to clean and…"
description: "Oh! Em! Gheeeee! Ignored my plants mostly yesterday to clean and reorganize their space and do a tank water change… piddling today and saw so much new growth…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/JmTUi1iSQr6-tX35luAMXQ/qawE0hqrNt7Hwsdqw9ZybA"
community: "The Orchid Oasis"
author: "Dory"
published: "2025-05-24T16:56:28.100079Z"
language: "en"
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# Oh! Em! Gheeeee! Ignored my plants mostly yesterday to clean and…

_Posted by Dory on 2025-05-24_

Oh! Em! Gheeeee! Ignored my plants mostly yesterday to clean and reorganize their space and do a tank water change… piddling today and saw so much new growth after spritzing everyone with the new water formula and I woke up to TONS of growth everywhere!!!! 😍😍😍here’s just pics of the orchids alone… (more in comments)

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## 5 comments

### Dory commented on 2025-05-24

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### Dory commented on 2025-05-24

They are really pushing out their new leaves and new buds and my minis are opening up their buds😍😍😍

Oh how I love happy plants🥰

### Ginger C commented on 2025-05-24

New water formula?

#### Dory replied on 2025-05-24

😅 yeah I make my own plant water now. No more tap. I have two five gallon buckets for my tank… a clean and a dirty. Old water gets drained into the dirty bucket. Dirty bucket has a mosquito dunk at all times soaking in there. I add my preventative pesticide on a low dose scale (had fungus gnat issues from a batch of soil medium🤦‍♀️). Then a capful of iron and a cap of potassium. A couple cinnamon sticks (antifungal properties), and plant food. It gets to steep in the bucket with the lid on it and I only see two or three gnats left. So much growth this morning on everything.

### Dory commented on 2025-05-24

\*my tank is a small low tech planted tank, minimal if any chemicals other than dechlorinator

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