I grow outside, with most in either lava rock or rough bark, so the drainage is extream. I look at the growth to see when hey want water. Now is the growing season. If I have a small root tips developing, I start to water two or three times a day. I check to see if my new baby growth is getting larger. If not, water. These are CAM plants and in a drought they shut down. If you want them to grow you have to flood them and water every day ( like I said, I water two to three times per day). In the winter, when they stop growing, I go down to once every seven to ten days. Store bought Fertilizer (I want to stop that reliance on chem companies though, as I believe it gives you weak plants.). Once a month. But I am now giving them liquid kelp and they love it. I also love compost tea. Throw grass clippings in a bucket and stew, and use as fertilizer.
I think of it like the binging that needs to go on before the winter rest. These guys need fat bulbs to gve nice flowers, but now at the beginning of summer, the big bulbs are tiny leaf bunches. They need to feed, feed, feed. It is not fertilizer that grows a plant, it is sun and water. They get big because they grow cells and provision them with sugar energy using a chemistry that is mainly sun and water. The nutrients provided with fertilizer are only a small part of what they need. I don't dwell on fertilizer. I dwell on optimum light, good drainage so I can give them optimum water.
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