TIPS FOR INDOOR PLANT FERTLIZER

Don’t look at fertilizers as food for your plants, it’s not. Your plants food come from photosynthesis where it take sunlight, carbon dioxide, water and creates sugars and starch, that’s the food for the plant. Look at fertilizers like vitamins for us humans, it helps with better growth, better immune system, better root growth and better water uptake.

Only add fertilizers when your plant is feeling well. There may be many reasons why your plant may not feel well or even look good, nutrient deficiency is rarely the case. It could be something else, you might have over watered the plant, caused root damage, may not be receiving enough sunlight, may even be too much sunlight, it’s too hot or its too cold. Take care of that problem first, and when your plant is feeling well, growing and glowing, that’s when it really needs fertilizers.

Never over fertilizer your plants. Use the recommended dose on the bottle. We tend to over fertilizer our indoor plants, thinking it helps with growth, but actually you are doing more harm to your plant. Usually, indoor plants are given liquid fertilizers and they dissolve in water. What they dissolve into is actually salt. That salt, is the simplest form, which the plants extracts. When we over dose these plants with the fertilizers, we are actually turning the soil into salt, and that can potentially kill your plants. Your plants need to be fertilized when its actively growing not during the dormant period.

Avoid using organic compost to fertilize your plants. But its okay, out in the nature, where there is a natural breakdown process, microbes, bacteria, fungi and worms helping the breakdown process, and making it more accessible to the plants roots pick up the nutrients. However, in the closed environment of our pots, that same process is not available. It’s fine as a potting mix for your indoor plant, but not as a direct fertilizer material.