Your plants look great! However, I wonder if you dont see the effects of overfertilizing because you are washing away any excess salts that would other wise burn your plants. Basically, I have the feeling that while you may not be burning the plants, I doubt they are taking up all that fertilizer and that you are actually washing most of it away. That would be a bummer as you would essentially be washing away a bunch of money and likely dumping a bunch of excess fertilizer into the drain. You might be having great success because they are getting lots of fertilizer, but you might go broke trying to do so! Have you tried fertilizing weakly weekly? For an experiment, I would buy 2 plants of the same size, maybe identical clones from the same flask and water one with your current feeding schedule and one with the recommended weakly weekly dose. That way you could figure out if your success comes from tons of fert or just regular feeding. After all, your post made it sound like you went from a very laid back approach to orchid care to a very focused and attentive one. Ray (from First Ray's Orchids) often mentions that people see amazing results from some fert schedule or some miracle new product not because of the amount of fertilization or the new product, but rather they see results because the orchid owners are now paying attention to their plants and are feeding their plants on a fixed schedule rather than whenever they get around to it. I would be very interested in the results of any tests that you do!!
Last edited by isurus79; 05-26-2009 at 02:41 PM..
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