All plants, wherever they grow: in the open ground or in a room, need top dressing. Without this, they will grow weak, painful, will not bloom. The most indispensable are indoor flowers in potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen. Potassium promotes their resistance against pests and diseases. Phosphorus stimulates flowering, as well as root growth. Nitrogen is quickly washed away with water, and the lack of it is felt more acutely by indoor plants in the period of active growth, since the volume of soil is limited by the volume of the pot. However, a fertilizer consisting only of nitrogen, or only from potassium will not make your flower healthy and flowering. Top dressing of indoor plants should be complex, and correctly dosed. The most acute houseplants need fertilizing in the spring.
If you have many different colors, then the best option would be universal fertilizing for indoor plants. It is suitable for all kinds of flowers. As part of such a complex fertilizer, all elements are balanced and are approximately in equal proportions. However, more often flower growers prefer special fertilizers.
Methods of top dressing of indoor plants
There are several ways with which you can feed house flowers. Here are some of them:
- Root top dressing of houseplants , the most common way in which nutrition is delivered to the plant through the root. For such feeding, complex fertilizers are most often used.
- Foliar top dressing of houseplants . With this method, nutrients come to the plant through the leaves, stem and stem. Carry out this fertilizing by spraying the fertilizer, which is previously diluted with water. The main advantage of this method before the root feeding is the rapidity of fertilizing the plant. Use foliar top dressing for diseases of indoor plants , when the root system is weakened or not at all. Then the smallest droplets of fertilizer, falling on the leaves and stem, are quickly absorbed by the plant. It is useful to foliar top dressing when drought or when the temperature of the surrounding air decreases. Feeding is carried out in small portions in the evening or in cloudy weather. The solution should be sprayed evenly and very finely.
- Foliar application of folk methods. Among such methods - top dressing of indoor plants by yeast. It is believed that the yeast solution promotes root formation. To prepare the solution, you need to dissolve 100 grams of yeast in 10 liters of cold water. Water the flowers you need once a month. Another folk method is the top dressing of indoor plants with wood ash. It contains calcium, phosphorus and potassium. In order to prepare a solution, you need to mix 25 grams of ash with one liter of water, insist for a week and water this plant infusion.
Fertilizers for indoor flowers can be different in form. Top-dressing in liquid form is used most often. They can easily be measured with a measuring cap. Solid fertilizers in the form of tablets, granules and rods are more convenient to use. They are placed in the soil and, gradually dissolving, they give nutrients to the plants.
However, there are several contraindications for fertilizing indoor plants. You can not feed flowers, recently transplanted or in a rest period. Sick plants, or having damaged roots, are also not recommended to fertilize, if the cause of the disease is not known.
In order to top dressing of indoor plants brought benefits to your pets, do not forget about the sense of proportion: do not overdo the dosage of fertilizers. It is better to feed the plants more often, but it is in those small doses that are recommended on the packaging, than to fertilize less often, but very concentrated fertilizers.
Properly fertilize your houseplants, and they will thank you with beautiful foliage and wonderful bloom.