Hi! I’m a beginner/intermediate plant owner and I’m now looking to become more educated on fertilizing my plants. I got a succulent fertilizer for my succulent types and was so excited to see them pop off! What’s a good all purpose fertilizer? I have a lot of snake plants, a variety of ficus’s, a few monsteras and some pothos. One of my plant corners below ☺️ EDIT: thank you everyone for all your advice!!
I use the succulent fertilizer on my snake plants. I like the organic indoor plant fertilizer from The Grow Co as my general. It stiiiinks out of the bottle, but not in your plants. A little goes a long way and it’s very gentle. You also can’t go wrong with Fox farm. I use the FF Big Blooms on my blooming plants
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Hi! I think a great place to start is a fertilizer with 10-10-10 npk ratio. I use a liquid fertilizer, I just think it’s easier. The snake plants will probably only need to be fertilized a few times a year. your pothos, ficus, and monsteras will be at least once a month during the growing season. I really like the espoma brand, but got the miracle gro most recently (it has a pump) but I don’t love the product.
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I use standard blue Miracle Gro (MG) for almost all my plants because they are mostly tropical foliage plants. I use the acidic fertilizer for plants that require an acidic soil like conifers, azaleas and camellias. I use the MG orchid fertilizer on my hoyas. I use a top dressing of organic fertilizer like cow manure on my large potted plants that live outside because I rarely repot those. The manure adds nutrients back into the soil. I also use timed release fertilizer in those largest pots.
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I love superthrive from dyna gro. I use a diluted amount every time I water. Mix that in with some silicone as well.
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What kind of silicon additive do you use?
0件のいいね It’s dune silicic acid. It’s a bit expensive but it lasts a while. It’s supposed to bond better than powder silicone. Which you are supposed to wait 20 minutes before adding in any other additives. I think it’s helping my variegated plants last longer. I’m still on my first bottle so it’s hard to say for sure. I’m still fairly new to silicone so I just went with one I saw people praising on YouTube.
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Nice. I have the same routine 👌🏽
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swear by foliage pro! all my favorite plant ladies use it too 🥰
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I like Schultz cactus because it’s got a dropper in the lid and I only need 7 drops per liter/quart and my cactus and succulents look great 😊 For my tropical plants I am trying out Leafy Lux and its only been a couple weeks but it seems to be doing fine
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wow I wish there was a way to save posts this is helpful! I'm in the same exact spot as you. intermediate plant keeper, pothos, monstera, philos obv, snake plants and ficus are on my wishlist!
3件のいいね Right?? Everyone has been so helpful!! I didn’t realize this part of Planta was accessible to people who don’t pay- I only found out about this yesterday!
いいね 1件 same I've been on here, and Palmstreet, also highly recommend, for like 4 days and I'm ADDICTED. the plant community is so kind!
0件のいいね I swear by foliage pro for all 137 plants and of course silica with every watering between march and nov. my albo cutting pushed out first leaf with fenestrations and I have 6/14 Hoyas blooming as they celebrate their first birthday 😍 calmeg useful, ph up and down down the line when you get really into plants 🙃
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