Feed Me!

[charlesf6]

Originally Posted by u bada

i love how the only tag for this post is "feed" lol

Yeah, I'll fertilize things weekly, weakly year round, but i give a little more fert ratio in spring and summer... and take it down around now. still pretty warm here, so i may keep fert a bit higher for a couple more weeks or this whole month.

That said, there are plants that grow year round (many pleurothallis) and also those that grow mainly in all (some sophronitis for instance) so those you can keep on a regular fert or sure year around...

those that go dormant, (some dendrobiums, catasetums), you can cut off fert, and reduce watering fairly soon, when leaves or shed, etc.

Mine are Phal's only at the moment.

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Originally Posted by silken

Your plant food is not a balanced one. It is often called a bloom booster with the large middle number. It will do, but it would be better to buy something like 20-20-20. I do use bloom booster sometimes when new growths (on Catts or Oncidiums) have just started to induce flower production. But some say it doesn't work and it is the lower presence of the nitrogen that actually stimulates bloom. This won't kill the plants or anything. May have less leafy green growth tho.

Oh I like to have leafy green growth so maybe I should never use this stuff?