Ok, ich hatte und hatte schon immer eine große Vielfalt an Pflanzen; Pothos, Tradescantia, Sukkulenten, Begonien, Spinnenpflanzen, Coleus, Dracaena und Usambaraveilchen, alles gleichzeitig. Ist für jede Art ein individueller Dünger erforderlich, oder gibt es ein gutes allgemeines Allzweck-Pflanzendünger, das ich für alle Arten verwenden kann? Auch Gedanken zu Nahrungsspitzen im Vergleich zu Flüssigkeit oder wie wäre es mit Oberflächengranulat? Bild (Begonia amphioxus, glaube ich) nur zur Show, weil er so verdammt süß ist!
Von: Guilty_Bee_1963
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Spikes IMO are the worst because you get these really concentrated spots of fertilizer that can burn. But I’ve used both granules and liquid and I think it’s just up to preference! A lot of the plants I get from my local plant shop have granules.
I use Espoma Indoor liquid plant fertilizer and have had really good results, but it STINKS so I use it less often than i should 🫣 and supplement with miracle gro indoor plant fertilizer and water from my fish tank. The only ones I plan on getting different fertilizer for are my flowering plants (orchids and african violets mostly) because the ratios to encourage flowering are slightly different. But otherwise all my plants get the same stuff! Begonias, hoyas, aroids, the only ones that don’t get it are my nepenthes.
Personally, I find that an all purpose food is perfectly sufficient for a variety of houseplants. I use Purived 4-5-5 Houseplant Food liquid concentrate and all of my plants thrive on it (I have begonias, pothos, succulents, snake plants, philos, and avocado trees and I use it for all of them) I also prefer liquid fertilizers over food spikes or granules because it makes it easier to get the proper measurements and there’s less stress about burning the roots imo. Of course this is all very much personal preference and may not be best for your plants but I’ve found it to be much easier and less prone to error than making custom mixes for each plant
I use one of those multiplant ones, granules that are mixed in water, and it has worked well so far. I do have one specially for tomatoes and chilies (which my hibiscus loves, too), and if I ever get orchids I’ll get them some orchid stuff.
Do you use a diluted mix every time you water and only feed during growing periods?
I only use general hydroponics 3 part for every single plant I own from cacti, carnivorous, philodendron, monstera, alocasia, succulents, orchids and ficus.
And make 3 5 gallon buckets one for orchid, one for monstera, philodendron, and alocasia , and 1 for succulents and cacti. Then just got an air pump to keep it moving makes it 0 work as I just have nutrients ready to go
As long as there are both macro and micronutrients, common fertilizers work with most plants.
I wouldn’t call fertilizers “food” though. Plants produce their own food by photosynthesis. Nutrients are more like vitamins are to us humans, essential but not needed in large quantities. As a general rule it’s always better to underfertilize than to go overboard with it, nutrients are essentially salts and giving too much can cause roots to “burn”.
Dyna-gro Foliage Pro 9-3-6. I have ~30 plants and that’s what everyone gets. That’s everything from ferns to Anthurium, a Thai Con, maranta, and begonias, etc etc. I mix it at 2.5 mL/gal. Vigorous growth from all.
I use three things, one, is just a general mostly balanced fertilizer. It’s miracle grow tomato stuff, but diluted to 3/3/3, and seems to keep things happy.
A few plants, like the turtle vines, seem to really like the granules for succulents. I mixed them in with the soil when repotting 6 months ago, and they go absolutely wild.
i have some things growing semi hydro, or, in clay balls, and, for those, about a teaspoon of worm castings every month has made a monsterous difference. So, they get that, and, usually a few of those succulent pellets. Pellets alone helped, but not thriving. Worm castings, and I started to get the hydro growing Pothos putting out 3 leaves a week. It’s getting out of hand. Growing 5 times faster in the semi hydro with worm castings than the others in their chunky soil and water schedule.