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title: "My plant app is telling me to fertilize a few of my plants, but water…"
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# My plant app is telling me to fertilize a few of my plants, but water…

_Pubblicato da Nichole il 2024-03-29_

My plant app is telling me to fertilize a few of my plants, but water different ones. I have gotten some liquid fertilizer that I assumed would put in when I watered.. this may be a silly question, but how to I fertilize without watering?

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## 6 commenti

### Big Apple Plants ha commentato il 2024-03-29

Planta recommends to water with fertilizer every few waterings. What I do, is dilute the my fertilizer about 2 tsp (SuperThrive Foliage Pro) in a gallon of water.

#### Nichole ha risposto il 2024-03-29

Ahhh so it’s telling me to actually water all of these, but add just add fertilizer to the bottom ones.

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#### Big Apple Plants ha risposto il 2024-03-29

Yes exactly!

#### Nichole ha risposto il 2024-03-29

Makes total sense now..lol..obviously new on my plant journey

### Timtimface ha commentato il 2024-03-29

You’re “watering” both categories. The fertilizer needs to be diluted in the water for that category. Instructions on the package for dilution. Don’t apply concentrated liquid fertilizer to plants since it usually burns them.

### MudSkipper Jnr ha commentato il 2024-03-29

I was getting confused with the watering \& fertiliser schedule as I often found I was watering them being advised to fertilise too soon.  
As now clarified to you, good also watering at the same time because it’s diluted into water. However.

I’ve taken to using a weaker mix of fertiliser with every watering \& only water (with the much weaker mix of fertiliser already diluted down to 1/4 strength) only when the plant actually needs to be watered.

To assess that, when the water suggestion pops up, I check the potting mix with a thin wooden kebab skewer \& kind of think about the way you do when checking a cake before taking it out of the oven. How much moisture/soil remains on the skewer when you ‘stab’ the potting mix right down to the bottom of the pot.

All that said, I try to consider the water requirement for each plant while doing my kebab skewer test. Is it a plant that likes consistent moisture or one that likes to fully dry out between watering.  
Hope that makes sense.  
It makes sense in my head but I’m not sure I actually explained it all that clearly sorry

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