Plants dont need a lot of fertilizer.
paph and non-slipper leaf issues
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well, mine get very little 
. and from seeing root tips turn black, and plants with leaves that get dull and turn yellow at the tips and then die back (mostly phals), I know that I much too often just grab the misting wand hooked up to the city water and just hit them with that. I know from work that seedlings that get misted like this get pale and look crusty because the water leaches nutrients out, and because they lack some nutrients i'm sure that's making them more susceptible to other things, including the chlorine in the water. i'm hoping that the minerals in orchiata will help along those lines, but i've already started fertilizing more, and I've started seeing roots start up again and healthy root tips. I wish there were an easy (meaning non-messy) way to hook up some fertilizer to my misting wand so that I could put at least calcium nitrate on my plants all the time weakly between regular feedings, but as the hozon portable injector I bought drips all over the place (not good in an apartment), and my two gallon sprayer that I use for mounted plant feeding leaks a lot out of the handle (haven't found any that don't leak), I end up falling back to grabbing the misting wand/clear water because I hate making a mess whenever I want to water/fertilize my plants.
I use an aquarium pump, tube and five gallon bucket to feed potted plants (and sometimes squeeze the end to make a 'mist'), but to water upper level plants I have to put on a stool etc but that can tip over
. and from seeing root tips turn black, and plants with leaves that get dull and turn yellow at the tips and then die back (mostly phals), I know that I much too often just grab the misting wand hooked up to the city water and just hit them with that. I know from work that seedlings that get misted like this get pale and look crusty because the water leaches nutrients out, and because they lack some nutrients i'm sure that's making them more susceptible to other things, including the chlorine in the water. i'm hoping that the minerals in orchiata will help along those lines, but i've already started fertilizing more, and I've started seeing roots start up again and healthy root tips. I wish there were an easy (meaning non-messy) way to hook up some fertilizer to my misting wand so that I could put at least calcium nitrate on my plants all the time weakly between regular feedings, but as the hozon portable injector I bought drips all over the place (not good in an apartment), and my two gallon sprayer that I use for mounted plant feeding leaks a lot out of the handle (haven't found any that don't leak), I end up falling back to grabbing the misting wand/clear water because I hate making a mess whenever I want to water/fertilize my plants. I use an aquarium pump, tube and five gallon bucket to feed potted plants (and sometimes squeeze the end to make a 'mist'), but to water upper level plants I have to put on a stool etc but that can tip over
Phals and other vandaceous plants need more fert than others. Also the orchiata supplemented with rockwool and diatomite should reduce the dryness issue.
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