unspoken truths...

[bil]

Originally Posted by PaphMadMan

Apparently you don't know any real beer drinkers...

After watering and letting pots drain, you add a small enough volume of more concentrated fertilizer that all or most of it stays in the pot. The roots have all the time until the next watering to take it up.

Naaah, two sniffs of the barmaid's apron and I'm done.

I don't like that strategy for a number of reasons. It would give me no control over what fertiliser was taken up, and I would just prefer that the whole pot was drenched with weak fertiliser, because that's the way it goes in the wild, and I like to keep as close to what they would get in nature.
Stuck in a greenhouse with limited temp control, they are bound to get a little bit outside their comfort zones at times, and too much of that will risk degrading health and or blooming. I know it's a small point, but where I can stay tightly to the script, I'm happiest.

Plus, with any number of orchids, it would make watering more complicated than I like, and at heart I'm lazy...