Interesting: have you read the fertilyser composition? not poor in K!The insigne guy:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/jvinoz/7379701466/
Interesting: have you read the fertilyser composition? not poor in K!The insigne guy:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/jvinoz/7379701466/
Interesting: have you read the fertilyser composition? not poor in K!
It doesn't make much difference what the K concentration is if you keep it in continuous water 11 of 12 months of the year, and feed a "little" once every month and a half during the growing season.oke: Is that maybe 4 fert applications for the whole year?
Compare that to the "weakly weekly" regime that we've been indoctrinated with, with the definition of "weak" as 100ppm N. And that's for everything including our single growth seedlings.
Now if he feeds a 100 growth plant 4 times a year with a weak solution of 100ppm N and K, then that's a miniscule exposure compared to what we aspiring specimen growers are generally putting on our own plants. Seems like another lesson in "less is more".
Yes when I asked him what he was giving it, the first thing he said was ''not very much'' It's strange but I'm STILL catching myself holding a seedling in my hand and thinking ''You must be hungry, I wouldn't want you to go without, so here have some of this''. Even after all these years it is still hard to resist!!! And with the very large plants in big pots, they almost seem to feed themselves. I'm sure I read a paper about orchid size and growth efficiency somewhere? I will look for it.
In other words, (very generally) the plant needs to reach full size before its real growing and multiplying potental is achieved. That explains why seedlings start off seeming increadibly slow ( and there is not much we can do about it but give near perfect conditions with 100% humidity, 15 hours of light etc. ) and the big specimens need hardly any attention.
Very heavy and yawn worthy reading.
http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/volltexte/2002/200/pdf/schmidt.pdf
canhii! :evil:
Just kidding. hirsuit is the clumping champion.