WW, your comment made me finally check out what Motes goes on about.
Note: he starts talking in spanish within the first 5 minutes. No clue what he says but would convert me instantly if I was a spanish speaker.
Interestingly I have disagreed with lots ES has mentioned motes suggests - I have never actually read his book!
But today I had enough and I wanted to check it out so I put myself through watching one of his 35 minute care videos. He has several..
Ok so it starts off talking about the universal motes watering methid,
cohesiveness of water, how to be a zen grower, the penetration power of water.
It all made me yawn a bit but then it actually starts to get interesting at about the 15 minute mark!
Ok that is if you can listen to him talking over what sounds like a jet engine taking off in the background.
What he says about fertilizing is either the opposite of what his book mentions or he has since changed his methods.
What he says about fertilizing I completely agree with in his video.
So what is going on?
He says never to use more than half strength MSU formula.
He explains how his imported Vanda's from Thailand all suffer from a Magnesium deficiency throughout the first year he grows them on and it takes a year for the deficient symptoms to disappear.
This I found very good info, so although he was fertilizing them correctly the plants would show reddening leaves for an entire year because they had been grown deficiently in Thailand all along and the deficiency never showed because in Thailand it never got cold enough.
Anyway a very good video and I will no longer question Motes again since he recommends everything I recommend...
It just seems over the years what he really says got lost in translation or his book is outdated.
He does say in this video he used to do things differently.
It's worth going with his latest beliefs, not what he was doing when he first started growing.
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