Plantsmith Fortifying Houseplant Tonic, Premium Feed for Indoor Plants, Concentrated Food with Vital Nutrients & Vitamins for Healthy Growth & Green Leaves – 100ml Bottle

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Houseplant food is nearly always a liquid which is diluted in water; this is the fastest way for your houseplant to make use of this food. Plants conduct all their metabolic processes in solution so by providing food as a liquid stops them wasting energy breaking down solids. Dilute your feed into rainwater and depending on the plant, water the soil from the top, water at the base for the roots to absorb or spray as a foliar feed once every two weeks. Most houseplants benefit from drying out between watering so test the soil with your finger to see if it is dry before re-soaking. Fortifying Houseplant Feed & Tonic

Plantsmith’s Fortifying Feed & Tonic can used on all your houseplants and is a blend of 13 essential plant-boosting nutrients which help your houseplants grow strong, glossy leaves and long lasting flowers. It also contains kelp extract which helps stimulate new cell growth. Schlumbergera have radiant, exotic bright flowers, ranging from red, pink to white, which are reminiscent of fuchsias and are a welcomed sight around the festive season. Flowering In the wild these plants would obtain all their nutrients from the soil. Roots would absorb a long list of beneficial macro and micro nutrients and trace minerals such as iron, calcium, copper, magnesium, manganese, boron and zinc. These all play an important role in the plant’s overall vitality so when a plant spends its life in a pot it is up to us to provide the food or the plant will suffer over time. What are the three main nutrients needed for healthy houseplant growth? Dracaena are particularly useful at filteringformaldehyde, xylene, andtrichloroethylenefrom our homes. These tall, thin, slow-growing plants have spiky red-edged leaves which like lots of indirect light and can cope with underwatering so good for busy gardeners. Image: Debi Holland Areca Palm, Dypsis lutescens Schlumbergera normally grow on trees in the wild so ensure your potting mix is light, sandy and free-draining so excess water can easily drain away. Mix together peat-free compost, horticultural sand, perlite for aeration, and coir. This will provide a good free-draining substrate. Alternatively, if you do not have the time to create your own potting mix, buy a cactus compost mix straight off the shelf. FeedingWater is absolutely essential to a plant’s survival to facilitate all the chemical processes required for it to photosynthesise. Soil Silver squill do not like soggy roots so make sure your potting mix is free-draining. A peat-free cactus and succulent soil is ideal but equally you can make your own and add sand or fine grit to improve drainage. Fertiliser Strong summer sun may leave soil parched and can scorch leaves creating brown dead-looking patches along the leaf margins; this is where excess moisture has been evaporated out of the leaf before the plant has had a chance to replenish it.

It’s best to feed houseplants regularly during their growing season, a period that generally runs from March to September. During this time, feed every other time you water. Apart from some flowering houseplants, most are dormant over winter, so require fewer nutrients to keep them in good shape. Either stop feeding completely or give them some nourishment with every fourth watering. How to feed After a while, our potted orchids at home need reviving so take time to look at your plant’s leaves, flowers, and roots to work out if there is a problem or is it just resting? Then read on to get the low down on how to care for orchids. Roots Our Houseplant Care Gift Set in a ready to gift box contains a 500ml bottle of Fortifying Houseplant Feed & Tonic and a 500ml bottle of Perfecting Houseplant Care Mist. Everything a budding indoor gardener needs to keep their houseplants thriving.Start feeding houseplants from early spring when they emerge from dormancy and respond to the increase in light levels and develop new growth. Make sure your plant gets around 14 hours of darkness a night, in a cool room and bring it out into indirect bright light in the day. Keep it well misted to increase humidity. Repeat this cycle for a few weeks and buds will break. Buds develop for about six weeks before flowering. The stems of the The Christmas cactus are rounded and smooth (top) whereas the Thanksgiving cactus has spiky points like crabs claws as the tips (bottom). Image: Debi Holland Light This is one of the easiest houseplants to grow and boastsover 500 cultivarsto choose from. Many notable Begonia rexhave attained the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit such as‘Escargot’,‘China Curl’, and‘Fireworks’.