---
title: "I posted a week or so ago that I was trying out plant food for the…"
description: "I posted a week or so ago that I was trying out plant food for the first time. My poor Inch Plant did NOT like it. The other plants didn’t seem to mind. This…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg/653d2338a4a07aa1135b8a06"
community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Lindsay in PA"
published: "2023-10-28T15:05:28.33Z"
language: "en"
image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/LAin9rR0inhnkViP8ZBN_M-ZITfb9tPARpKO-QdSRno/00c8f8982cc54d118394c1900ec3039b.webp?size=large"
---

[Community](https://getplanta.com/community.md) / [Anything about plants](https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg.md)

# I posted a week or so ago that I was trying out plant food for the…

_Posted by Lindsay in PA on 2023-10-28_

I posted a week or so ago that I was trying out plant food for the first time. My poor Inch Plant did NOT like it. The other plants didn’t seem to mind. This Inch Plant went limp and there were a lot of leaves turning brown. My current plan is to starve it until it’s fairly dry and then water it. All is not lost as there are still some good stems.

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/LAin9rR0inhnkViP8ZBN_M-ZITfb9tPARpKO-QdSRno/00c8f8982cc54d118394c1900ec3039b.webp?size=large)

## 6 comments

### Michelle commented on 2023-10-28

Did you dilute it at all? I'm not sure how the Arber brand is, but I know that in general some people like to half the amount recommended on the bottle to prevent burning the roots!

#### Michelle replied on 2023-10-28

Or even quarter the amount on the bottle!

#### Lindsay in PA replied on 2023-10-28

Yes, there were directions for how many capfuls per cups of water. My other plants didn’t mind it.

### Minamy commented on 2023-10-29

I have the same plant and I gave her fertilizer a week ago, and she’s so happy and growing so well ! I used this one ! Hope your plant will be happy again 🙏🏻🌱

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/pII7YVjJGyDavFVR0VX9ceMtWkPZ1N_4BeF2_5GsEpE/06f85326f1d44b19abfe42f25ed06290.webp?size=large)

### Webb2020 commented on 2023-10-30

My lil purple inch place was a Drama Queen!!! She never did well in soil for me….so I clipped off a good part of her “barely” healthy stem and propagated her in water. This happened a couple of years ago and o still leave her there but she has made several babies (that’s made a lot of my plant friends happy and all is thriving. 💕 Here’s some of her thriving babies as well

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/o7EYzMfRRTh7KTROho56SvyNZW5AUiosrJw9vn0y9Rc/140933ad93b74d55bd69283c6cefe587.webp?size=large)

### Webb2020 commented on 2023-10-30

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/o7EYzMfRRTh7KTROho56SvyNZW5AUiosrJw9vn0y9Rc/559aebd6d8f642fea5df8f6ec0a7a1c9.webp?size=large)

---

_Source: the Planta community (https://getplanta.com). Reading is open to everyone. To post, comment and like, get the Planta app: https://getplanta.com/download_