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title: "1. What is the best liquid fertilizer to use for house plants? 2.…"
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# 1. What is the best liquid fertilizer to use for house plants? 2.…

_Posted by Jade on 2026-08-18_

1\. What is the best liquid fertilizer to use for house plants?

2\. what is the best way to go about separating a pothos mine is severely overcrowded and looks like i bought 2 plants in one pot…. i dont want to damage the roots in the process

## 5 comments

### ✨RoRo✨ commented on 2026-08-18

1\. I don’t know which fertilizer is “ best”, but I use Miracle-Gro plant food (liquid and powder)

2\. If you want to separate without out ripping roots, I would suggest removing the dirt from the roots so you can see and separate root by root carefully. You could also just give them more space by going up in a nursery pot size. I have a mixed pot of like 4-5 different Pothos variations ✨🪴

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### Amie206 commented on 2026-08-19

GT Foliage Focus is a highly rated liquid fertilizer. Another is Foliage Pro

### Shayla commented on 2026-08-19

This one has worked great for me. A few pumps into a gallon of distilled water that I use to water my picky plants!

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### Nikiller commented on 2026-08-19

The “best” fertilizer is one that has the NPK ratio you need for the specific plant using ingredients available to the plant, and with all the micronutrients needed. I personally use something called superthrive or something like that for all of my foliage, and then anything fruiting or flowering I use a general 10-10-10 with added micronutrients.  
You’ll probably have to keep the pothos together and just increase the pot size, trim them down, or risk breaking off a decent amount of roots while separating them. I have all my pothos co-planted with a different pothos and plan to always leave mine co-planted so I’m fine with just upsizing when needed b

### Tay commented on 2026-08-19

I was using grow queen liquid fertilizer. It includes kelp and seaweed. It’s a really good fertilizer. However, it’s expensive now that I’m moving towards having 200 plants. So I switched to a 10-10-10 that I found on amazon

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