Dry feeding for flowers. Effective effective fertilizers for room colors

Flowers - What can be more beautiful? Probably, that is why we are dacms, grow them not only on their garden sites, but also at home. It is especially nice when it is snowing behind the window, and beautiful flowers blooms on the window on the window sill, it's not true?

Today I suggest talking about an important nuancewithout which grow healthy, beautiful problematic - about natural feeding. And if we definitely harm at the cottage, when it comes to domestic flowers, some feeders neglect. And in vain.

When needed to feed

Feed home flowers should be much more likely than sometimes it seems to us. It is caused by such a need, first of all, limited by plant power supply. And even if your flowering pet grows in a large spacious pot, this does not mean that he has enough minerals. The plant in any case strongly depletes the land, so it needs additional feeding.

In part, the output from the situation will be a periodic transplant to a new nutritious land substrate. But the reserve of the useful substances contained in this substrate is enough for approximately two months, but not half a year old, as many beginner flower belongs. And after these two months, the plant, especially if it begins to bloom or actively grow, must be filled. The only exception will be copies that have come resting periods: they are temporarily in additional nutrition do not need.

An alarm that you need to urgently start feeding domestic flowers, the following signs will be:

• slow growth;
• weak elbow stems;
• pale, weakly painted, excessively small, drooping leaves;
• reluctance to bloom;
• low resistance to diseases, yellowing and dropping leaves, the appearance of various spots on them and other signs of unhealthy.

Of course, to such a state of green pets it is better not to bring. Therefore, let's talk about what kind of natural fertilizers we can use for our pets, and how exactly.

Sugar

Perhaps the most popular natural fertilizer for feeding room flowers is ordinary sugar. Yes, yes, it is sugar, I did not make a reservation!

Whoever guessed to use it as fertilizer for plants, the story is silent, but we can successfully apply it to feed our own colors.

Benefit of feeding sugar

From the lessons of chemistry, we remember that sugar decays on fructose and glucose. We first do nothing, but the second, that is, glucose, performs 2 functions at once. First of all, it serves as a source of energy for all processes of the life of plants (respiration, absorption of various nutrients and so on); secondly, glucose - construction materialnecessary to form complex organic molecules.

True, there is one nuance: glucose is an excellent builder only if it is well absorbed, for which, in turn, carbon dioxide is necessary. In case of insufficient concentration of carbon dioxide, sugar from the builder will turn into a power source for mold, root rot and so on. Therefore, together with sugar feeders, it is very desirable to use one of (for example ") - from such a combination of 100% will be sense. For cooking, docking 1 tbsp. A spoonful of sugar in 0.5 liters of water or just sprinkle with sugar ground in a flower pot, and then pour.
To resort to such feeding of domestic flowers should be no more often once a month, so do not overdo it.

Feeding home plants, do not overdo it- everything is good in moderation

Instead of sugar, you can take an ordinary glucose that is sold in a pharmacy - such feeding will be even more effective. One pill glucose must be divorced in a liter of water. Water or spraying plants "glucose" water is also required not more than 1 time per month.

Speit coffee

Excellent fertilizer for all domestic (and not only) colors -, the more convenient that it is not necessary to cook it specifically. Simply, drinking a cup of fragrant drink, do not pour coffee thick, and mix it with the ground in the vase.

Due to this simple reception, the soil will become more loose and easy, the acidity of the soil will increase, there will be more oxygen in it. Using as feeding domestic flowers with sleeping coffee, remember: by no means for all plants, the increase in soil acidity is good. And do not forget about green pets in the flower bed: such a fertilizer will benefit:

• all types;
• And other evergreen.

For feeding of domestic flowers, tea welding is often used. Unfortunately, it can give not only positive, but also a negative effect. Undoubtedly, such additives will make the land in a flower pot of more loose, but do not forget that black mugs (SCIARIDA) adore in the soil, so be careful.

Citrus and Other Fruits

Corks of mandarins, oranges and bananas can turn into excellent fertilizer for home plants. True, for this, they will have to "put a little". To prepare fertilizer from citrus fruits, their peel must be crushed, fill on about a third liter bank and pour to the top boiling water. Infusted such a "citrus" fertilizer throughout the day, take off the crusts, the water in the bank again brought by volume to a liter, adding clean water, and water our flowers.

Approximately the fertilizer from banana crusts is also preparing: grind them, fill to half a liter bank and pour it to the top with water. We insist for a day, after which they are filtering, we throw the peel, and the bank again fill to the top with clean water.

Often lovers who contain houses various plantsThe question arises: how to feed indoor flowers, because the flowering can not be waited at all in terms of non-compliance proper care. Not all varieties have decorative foliage may be worthy of compensation. Therefore, let's consider more fertilizer types and methods for their use. After reading this article, you will choose your own version of the feeding mode.

Fertilizers for colors are liquid, granulated, in the form of powder, sticks, tablets, in composition - mineral and organic, and in the form of application - root and extraxnealing (sheets). The liquid is quick and easily dissolved, the fertilizers of the powder need to breed in water very carefully - make sure that the sediment remains at the bottom of the tank, otherwise one plants will get a reduced dose of nutrients, while others (which you water the latter) may suffer.

There are fertilizers for domestic flowers in the form of candles, chopsticks or tablets that must be shuffled into the soil. They will be gradually and slow (for weeks or even months) dissolved during irrigation, highlighting useful trace elements in the land, which are absorbed by roots.

Fertilizers are mineral (synthesized in the factory drugs) and organic, about which we will tell a little lower. What to fertilize better, you choose yourself.

Amber Acid is an excellent agent for watering and spraying. One gram of the drug should be divorced in 5 liters of water. Only apply such a feeder for domestic flowers once a year.

There is also such a wonderful preparation as potassium monophosphate. It accelerates the appearance of flowering and helps extend it. To obtain a solution you need to add 1 gram of the drug in the liter of water. Two feeding will be quite enough - after the bootonization, the use of potassium monophosphate is stopped.

Now on sale you can see a wide selection of fertilizers, but the price of some of them can be very high. You will significantly save if you compare deals in different stores (it is better to do it on the Internet) and choose the best option. Pay attention to wholesale purchases: if there are many flower flower - lovers among your friends, you can order a minimum wholesale lot of goods and divide it. And the cost for you will decrease, and the drugs are enough for a long time. Attention: small, recently formed firms may offer counterfeit.

By the way, it is necessary to mention about stimulants of growth and flowering - heteroacexin, humats and others. Even if the plant is in critical condition (For example, you returned from vacation and, to your disappointment, found that your favorite began to get quiet), you can spend an "resuscitation" with the help of drugs such as Epin, Zircon, etc.

In this case, the introduction of additional feeding can only harm. It should not be fertilized to the room flowers, whose period began.

Also pay attention to other cases: it often happens that the problem lies even not so much in the shortage of nutrients, how much is that the plant is contained in unsuitable conditions or impaired by pests. Check the soil, roots and leaves - whether there is no transplant in a pot of larger, spraying. Maybe the roots are damaged by bugs or worms, which externally will not be noticeable for you, but constantly provide negative impact. Other pests can also be almost not visible, their presence can be determined, for example, only on the leaving the adhesive track on the leaves.

After performing the necessary procedures (insecticide processing, transplant, and so on), it will be possible to think about making nutrients, but you need to withstand the "rehabilitation period".

Universal fertilizer has a wider range of action and composition. There are also options intended for certain varieties (or separately "for blooming", "for decoratively deciduous"). Any flower shop will provide you with the ability to choose.

What can you feed more indoor flowers at home? Everything is simple - there is one very simple and economical option. Easy to prepare organic fertilizers for indoor plants From the available ingredients do it yourself.

Forming room colors from black tea welding. Having dried, it is mixed with the ground in the proportion of 1: 3. It will break the soil. If you want to protect the soil from drying out, you can sprinkle with a slightly lightly. But here the main thing is not to overdo it. So that you do not have flies, welding must be changed periodically. There is a more efficient option - put in a pot of sleep tea in bags, and down (on top of the drainage).

Speed \u200b\u200bcoffee contains valuable trace elements. Such fertilizer for indoor plants can be mixed into the soil for oxygen enrichment (if your pet is not contraindicated with an increased acidity). After that, for some time, cut watering.

Egg shell - too good feeding For room colors (natural calcium source). Grind it to the state of the powder in a coffee grinder or a mortar, then diluted with five parts of warm water. The shell also can also be used as drainage (in bulk to the bottom of the pot under the soil). Calcium will be washed into the soil.

Milk and serum will help in the fight against fungal diseases, contribute to the exchange of substances. The spraying solution is prepared as follows: water - 10 parts, serum or milk - 1 part.

The ash and coal disinfect the soil. Mix a small amount of ash with a soil before transfer. It is possible to dissolve it a tablespoon in 1 liters of warm water and then proceed to watering. Use this solution once every 10 days. It will be more useful if you insist on it during the week (periodically approach and shack the solution).

Castor oil (tablespoon per liter) will be effectively for feeding beautiful flowering plants.

Decoration of the husk of the onion bow. The phytoncides are very useful, besides, the tincture will contribute to growth and flowering. For the preparation of the brave of 50 g of the shells of the reptile onion, you need to pour 2 liters of boiling water. Next, we boil everything under the lid of about 10 minutes. Insist for three hours. The resulting decoction must be strain. Spraying should be carried out infrequently - about once every two months. You can also shed the soil if pests started there. Unused tincture should be poured.

Garlic will also help you from pests. Proportion: several pieces of garlic (about 200 g) per liter. We insist them in a dark place about 3-5 days, tightly closing the container. The constraint, infusion it will be necessary to dilute in another concentration (it takes about 1 tablespoon of infusion for two liters of water). If the pests started in the soil, it will need to shed the resulting liquid, and if on shoots and leaves - spray. By the way, from pests of leaves you can use the household soap, grated on the usual grater.

Citrus crusts are also excellent natural fertilizers for indoor plants, they have a positive effect on immunity. By filling on one third liter bank with crusts of mandarins, oranges, lemons, grapefruits, pomegranates, etc., pour them to the top of boiling water. After a day, we remove the peel, pour water again. Then the infusion, the strain, can be used for watering. In winter and in the fall, about once a month, in other periods a little more often.

Yeasts contain cytokinins and various valuable trace elements. A solution is preparing about the same way as the usual disappear for products from the test, only without flour. 10 g yeast poured a liter of slightly warm water. We dissolve ½ teaspoon of sugar. If you took dry yeast, then sugar should take three tablespoons, and the water is 10 liters. After two hours, the infusion will be ready. Before watering, it is divorced in the ratio of 1: 5.

Sugar can also be used separately - both for flowers in the vases, and for those are pebble, since glucose is very useful. A tablespoon of water is bred in 0.5-1 liters of water (room temperature). You can use tablets that are sold on any pharmacy (1 pc. Per liter). However, watering flowers with such a solution more often than once a month should not be. You can slightly sprinkle with soil sugar sand, and then pour.

Aspirin in proportion of 1 tablet per liter can be used for spraying. In such a solution, you can also hold cut flowers (which will extend the life of the bouquet).

Mushroom infusion is also very nutritious. If you have after the "quiet hunting" and the preparation of mushrooms remained some "spare parts", they can be poured with water in the ratio of 1: 1. After that, let it be. The resulting concentrated infusion after a day must be pulled out. Replace water, and still a day you can water the flowers.

Aquarium water can also be used for watering at the beginning of summer or in spring (about once a month). Such a home fertilizer for indoor colors well stimulates their growth.

Aloe juice will help support the immunity of your green pets. Cutting down the bottom leaves from an adult aloe, put them in the refrigerator package. Delivered from the leaves of the juice in a few days to dilute with water (for 1.5 liters of water we take 5 ml - approximately 1 teaspoon). The solution is used for spraying. Aloe extract is also sold in ampoules (use 1 ml per liter of water).

Banana peel, oddly enough, can also be very useful - potassium will help speed up blossom. Before cooking infusion, rinse very well. Then fill it with it a three-liter jar about a third, add 1 tbsp. A spoonful of sugar and pour the jar to the very top of the water. We leave everything to appease in a warm place for a couple of weeks, shaking the infusion from time to time. After that, the strain, we remove it into the fridge. Before watering the infusion is bred 1:20. Banana crusts can be dried, crushed (in a meat grinder or coffee grinder). Such feeding is mixed directly into the soil, it can also be laid on top of the drainage layer.

You can also recommend such organic fertilizers as pets of pets and birds. If you or someone from your friends breed quail, then their litter can be picked up indoor flowers. Effective also chicken litter. The main thing is to be very neat with a dose. The humus is irreplaceable, but its composition depends on the origin. Sheet humus is less dangerous. Feed home flowers more useful to bird litter: 10 g are bred in three liters of water. Manure is recommended to use for fast-growing varieties (100 liters per lithres). For room colors at home, it will be necessary at all a lot of humus. Do not forget before making feeding to shed the soil with ordinary water.

By the way, the recommendation to make fertilizers in wet soil is always relevant. Otherwise, dry roots will receive an increased concentration of feeding, and this may damage the plant, especially if it is weakened. There is also another important rule: do not bring concentrated fertilizers during heat! You can burn and hurt the roots. And what to feed better - about this detailed above.

Good lighting is absolutely necessary for the full development of plants. In winter, they should also additionally "feed" a portion artificial lighting For at least a couple of hours. A special spectrum lamps are offered for this purpose.

Many plants of Dutch origin are now sold in stores. They are grown "on the stream", often adding special ingredients to the substrate, which will allow the plant to become powerful, showing themselves in all its glory. However, when the supply of nutrients stops, it is often dying, since the soil must be refreed. Or the plant was grown in a peat tablet, and then the roots completely called an affordable earth com, and they lack "air".

Remember also about other conditions of detention. In the event that the plant, for example, is in a dark or hot place, even if you feed it according to a specific scheme, all forces will go to compensation, and you will not see blossoms.

Given all the recommendations and tips on the care of home plants in this information article, you can do without modest means and always enjoy the healthy view and lush flowering of your green pets.

The substrate for indoor plants provides them with all the necessary nutrients during a very short term. Because of the limited volume of soil, a few months later, the reserves of the macro and microelements required by plants are depleted, and indoor pets begin to depend on measures that replenish the soil nutrition. Falker - not only the main, but also a vital place of care of plants. Like watering, they benefit only when they are carried out correctly and in a timely manner.

Right choice The substrate is important from the point of view of creating an ideal air and a water permeable medium for the development of the root system, and for the optimal flow of moisture absorption and nutrients from the soil. But even the best, high-quality, carefully selected, taking into account all the individual features, the substrate for indoor plants is operated as a source of nutrients only in the first weeks, and for preferring a poor plant soil - a few months after a transplant. In contrast to nature, nutrients in the soil in pots are not renewed and not replenished as a result of biological processes. And even their good stock is exhausted pretty quickly.

Forms for indoor crops are designed to maintain a stable nutrient medium, compensating for the depletion of the substrate and constant access of the plant to all the necessary nutrients. Accordingly, the question of when the need for feeding for indoor plants arises is quite simple: feeding are carried out when the substrate can no longer provide plants all the necessary macro and trace elements. If the plants are transplanted annually, the feeding for them play a smaller role than with more rare transplants: since next year, the plant in nutrition will fully depend only on the care program.

Often the most important thing in feeding calls the choice of fertilizer themselves. Special fertilizers for decorative-deciduous plants, beautiful cultures, cacti, orchids, palm trees, bromels, roses and many other drugs allow you to not limit your range only by universal fertilizers. Choose fertilizers just - it is enough to study the recommendations for a particular plant and make sure that the ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium corresponds to their preferences. But there are two more nuances of feeding, which define their "correctness". On the issue of making fertilizers for indoor plants it has great importance when the feeders are carried out and how exactly they are implemented.

When to feed indoor plants?

Indoor plants are fed only during an active vegetation when they grow and develop underground, and overhead parts. It is during this period that you need to make fertilizers. This rule does not mean that the correct feeders are carried out only in spring and summer: there are such plants that not only do not have a complete rest period and develop all year, but also blooming in the fall and winter stars. Choose a period when you need to feed each plant, it is necessary for its vegetation and its features.

In the spring and summer all plants need. The period of active development in crops, even growing in the premises, begins with an increase in the duration of the daylight and the intensity of lighting. Usually the beginning of the growing season comes to March, and with favorable weather starts at the end of February. And together with this, the period of active feeder begins. An active vegetation ends in the fall, with a corresponding reduction in the light day and the overall lighting intensity. Seasonal illumination reduction is usually manifested in October, so the period of traditional feeding is usually completed during September.

In front of the autumn and in winter it is not so easy to figure out:

1. If the plant goes to a full rest period and fully stops in growth, feeding the fall and in winter are not carried out at all. Usually, the cessation of the feeding needlasting and large plants, beautiful-flowing cultures, dropping leaves or the entire above-ground part of the plant are needed.
2. Reducing the daylight, slowdown in growth, cool wintering, partial rest period requires a decrease and reduction of feeding on the autumn-winter period. For example, for many decorative deciduous plants, although rare, but supporting stable Winter feeding conditions are necessary to preserve the beauty of the leaves.
3. If the plant blooms in the cold season or in the fall, then fertilizers continue for it.

At the same time, it is possible to perform feeding for indoor plants in the period from October and before February if the plant gets a comfortable level of illumination and does not suffer from lack of light. For cultures that during this period do not need feeders, fertilizers can lead to root system burns and excessive accumulation of non-discrepable nutrients. Even cultures that develop in winter and further, due to seasonal features and reduction in light, still reduce their needs for nutrient elementx, and without correction of feeding, they will also suffer from excess fertilizers.

In order not to get confused in the timing and periods of active feeding and in their full or partial stop, it is enough to carefully examine the characteristics of each individual room plant - information is not only about temperature or lighting, but also what plants need care. Usually, the recommendations provide all the necessary information about the peculiarities of this species, the preferred frequency of application and the composition of fertilizers. There are plants that love sharp change of feeding regime, and those for which periods when feeding are actively conducted, should begin and end gradually.

Universal dates of feeding change for newly acquired and transplanted plants. The feeding after the transplant is started to spend only a month later for naughty and 2-3 months later - for hardy and not too demanding to power plants. When buying a plant does not fertilize not only during quarantine, but during the first months after it, starting to resume them gradually. The feeders are never conducted for crops affected by diseases or pests, completely removing them from the departure program until the treatment is completed.

Special (additional) feeders are carried out when any plant demonstrates explicit signs of shortage of certain nutrients. The appearance of spots on the leaves, dropping leaves and buds, stop or slowing down growth, dwarfism, lack of flowering, leaf pale - all this indicates incorrect feeding. The main task of such feeding is the provision of everything that the plant is missing. Ordinary liquid feeding will bring the result not immediately, much faster to recover plants will help the resumption of normal care, as well as measures complemented by more and extractive feeders.

How to make fertilizers?

In order not to make mistakes and hold feeding correctly, the most important thing is to accurately follow the instructions for use that provide all the comprehensive information and will help not doubt the dosages or methods of application. The instructions will definitely indicate how to apply fertilizers: in the form of powder, granules, sticks, capsules and even in liquid form.

Oh whatever fertilizer is discussed, it is worth remembering that there are several universal recommendations in the question of feeding:

1. "Unoccuping" much better than making too large fertilizer doses. Special fertilizer mixtures are calculated for a certain concentration and beneficially affect only if they are used according to the manufacturer's instructions. Application uncontrollably, in the overestimated dosage will not reduce the frequency of the feeding and will not create a "stock" in the soil, but only increase the risk of damage to the roots and violation of normal life, the process of absorption of nutrient elements and moisture. Indoor plants, in contrast to garden, from excess nutrients suffer very much. And we are talking not only about the loss of decorativeness, but also on the risk of the loss of the plant as a whole. Symptoms of excess fertilizers in room crops are:
   • burns on the leaves;
   • yellowing, blackening and dying of the tops or individual shoots;
   • rechain leaves.
2. Any type of fertilizer is not included in the soil, if it is completely dry. Fucking and liquid, and dry, and even extraxornic type spend only after moistening the soil and irrigation. If a stable moisture mode is supported for plants, the substrate never dry out completely, then liquid fertilizers can be made with water for watering. If the substrate is dry, it is better to always separate the feeding and watering and performing feeding the day after irrigation, in fresh and damp soil. This requirement eliminates the risk of root tissue burns.
3. Water quality is important in no less fertilizer quality. Water for watering should be soft, resolved, seamless by preferences of each particular plant. If the fertilizer is dissolved in water or added to it, then in no case should not use cold water: any fertilizer makes only a little warmer room temperature.
4. Feeding do not spend in the midst of the day and heat, and even more so in the right rays of the sun. Like for garden plants, feeding for indoor crops should be made either early in the morning or in the evening.

The most popular and safe version of feeding fertilizers in a liquid form or short-acting feeding. Liquid and soluble powder fertilizers provide plant nutrients in an easily digestible form. They are made with water for watering, pouring a concentrate or dissolving dry mixtures in it, avoiding the risk of burn or re-securing substances while complying with the recommended dosages for each individual plant and the type of fertilizer. Usually, in the period of active vegetation, liquid feeders are carried out with a frequency of 1 time in 2 or 3 weeks, during the flowering period - 1 time in 1 or 1.5 weeks. During the relative rest if the feeders continue to spend, they are taken at a time more - 1 time in 1 or 1.5 months. Fertilizer dosage is also collapsed twice.

Any fertilizer long action - sticks, granules, grains, etc. - apply in accordance with the instructions. Usually more often than 1 time in 2 or 3 months add them to the soil. Sometimes such fertilizers are simply added during transplantation and forget about feeding to the next procedure, but more often all fertilizers of prolonged action require a 1-3-month frequency. Since nutrients are released gradually, they simplify the care process.

Different types of long-term fertilizers are used in different ways.:

1. Granulated or powder fertilizers are in the soil when landing.
2. Fertilizer or fertilizer sticks with an insecticide function are made in the soil after planting the plant. They are plugged on 4-5 cm and approximately at the same distance from the edge of the pot, calculating the number of sticks in the diameter of the pots (1 wand - on a pot of diameter of about 10 cm).

Extra-corner feeders are used quite specific. They are carried out only for herbatous plantshaving unquainted smooth leaves and forming a thick deciduous mass. They are not used not only for succulents and all plants with the edge, but also for palm trees. Conducted extra-corner feeders only in the leaves during the period of active growth. In fact, they are applied to the leaves, but do it very simple method - spraying. Instead of the usual spraying with warm and soft water, spraying with a low-concentrated fertilizer solution. This procedure is carried out carefully, isolating the plant and putting it on such a surface, the falling on which mineral substances will not cause unpleasant consequences. But much more important to make sure that when feeding on the leaves, the plant will not suffer from too bright lighting and especially from direct sunlight, which will instantly leave burns on the leaves. Air humidity during feeding should be at least medium or high. Extra-corner feeders are always combined with usual, because despite the fact that such a procedure supports foliage decorativity, the main nutrients plant absorbs precisely from the soil.

One of the most important components of the care of indoor plants are feeding. Along with watering, they constitute a base pair of vital procedures, without which it is impossible to maintain not only beauty, but also the health of indoor pets. Indoor plants growing in a limited amount of soil in pots need to constantly replenish the level of nutrients. Stocks in the substrate itself are quickly depleted. The priority task of feeding is to compensate for the exhaustion of the soil and maintain its nutrition at a stable level. The feeders are often referred to as the simplest component of care, but, as in any other aspect of the care of indoor plants, the individual approach and accurate compliance with the rules are important for them.

Forming indoor plants with a solution of liquid fertilizer. © Ftd. Content:

Fertilizer's introduction is a simple, but vital procedure

The need to constantly replenish the loss of nutrients with additional application of fertilizers into the soil is directly related to the peculiarities of growing any plants in containers and flower pots. Unlike crops that grow directly in open soil, Indoor plants need additional supply of nutrients throughout the active development. In fact, what kind of indoor pets get the desired elements depends only on the owners. And all the responsibility for the "supply" of plants also lies with them.

The feeding should be considered not as stimulating flowering, development, improvement of decorative characteristics of plants, namely, how to maintain vital access to nutrients - potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen, microelements and other connections. It should not be forgotten that almost every type of plant has its own preferences in the nutritionality of the soil, and according to the composition of fertilizers.

In the matter of searching for the ideal approach to the court, it is necessary to remember that the best key of success is the Golden Middle Rule. The feeders should not be excessive nor insufficient. It is necessary to try to create as many stable conditions for the development of indoor pets, avoiding any extremes. Excesses in feeding, as in any other parameter of care, will not benefit any culture. Regular, systemic, built in accordance with the development cycle and the characteristics of the plant, is the recipe for perfect feeding.

When do plants need feeding?

In fact, the feeding plants are not needed only for the first few weeks after the transplant, when the nutrient reserves in the soil are enough for normal development. After the resources of the new substrate "mastered", the plant is completely dependent on the application of fertilizers. But their surplus hurts as seriously, as the absence of feeding at all. Fertilizers are necessary for all plants without exception, but they must comply with their needs, developmental stages and nutrient consumption rates.

Each plant is individually, in its development, even if it does not affect attractiveness, there are periods of active growth and full rest. In the "wintering", active feeders cause premature awakening, in the absence of these procedures, during active growth, the plant simply does not have enough resources for the release of new shoots and leaves, and even more so to release the flowerons. That is why the plants are pushed almost always only at the stage of active development or for some plants a little concentrated fertilizer is administered during the rest period.

The deadlines for making fertilizers are always selected accordingly with individual preferences of the plant and the stage of its development. Usually feeding begin to conduct in early springWhen the first young leaves and shoots are rolled into the growth. Stop the application of fertilizers only after active growth stops. Traditionally, the period of active feeding in the life of each flower lasts from March to September. But specific deadlines and periods for fertilizers should always be selected for specific plants. So, specially deprecated for flowering in winter or from nature blooming in the cold season of culture need feeding from September-October and until June, not a typical time frame.

Making a granular brake fertilizer for indoor plants. © Gardeners.

Frequency and dosage feeding

But if there are clearly certain periods for each room culture, when you need to make feeding, then with the frequency of procedures is not so simple. Some plants need fertilizer literally every week, others require not only rare procedures with a frequency of 1 time per month, but also reduced doses of fertilizer concentration.

The easiest thing is that flowers that use long-term fertilizers: they are added according to the manufacturer's instructions directly into the soil no more often than once a few months. But they are not suitable for all plants, and classic liquid and extractive feeders require compliance with not only the manufacturer's instructions, but also the preferences of each plant. Traditional, or standard are denunciation with a frequency of 1 time in 2-3 weeks. More often make fertilizers for abundant blooming plants or summer plants, less often - for succulents and desert plants.

Selecting dosages, not enough to follow the instructions of the manufacturer for each specific composition of fertilizers. Subtropical and tropical crops are fed by traditional doses. But for plants that are sensitive to excess nutrients, succulents, young shoots or grave crops, desert and mountain plants dosage fertilizers are reduced by half.

Schedule of feeding - Assistant, not a waste spending time

The most reliable guarantee that you will not be mistaken with making feeding - drawing up charts of procedures for each plant and for your collection as a whole. To prescribe the necessary information and bring it into unified system We will have to allocate several hours. But you completely exclude and possible mistakes In care, and you can be sure that each plant in your house receives those nutrients that he needed. For each plant, write out:

• preferred feeding period;
• recommended frequency of procedures;
• type of fertilizers and their dosage.

By connecting the "indicators" into a single table, you can build an efficient and simple system that will exclude any errors.

12 golden rules for applying fertilizers for indoor plants

1. Observe individual recommendations for each plant.
2. Always stick to the manufacturer's instructions.
3. Do not retreat from the chart of the feeder, selected according to the requirements of plants.
4. We suspend time and conditions when you make feeding for indoor plants. In very hot days, for plants, in direct sunlights or feeding on a noon-haired in the summer should not hold. Fertilizers are better to make in the morning or in the evening, during the day - only on cloudy days.
5. Never make liquid fertilizers at undiluted.
6. Under no circumstances do not feed the dry soil. The substrate in the pot must be necessarily wet, before making fertilizers it is necessary to conduct a preliminary irrigation (it is better not before the feeding, and at least a few hours before the procedure itself). This applies to dry fertilizers of prolonged action, which can also be made only in wet soil, and extractive feeding.
7. When using extraxnealing methods after spraying, it is desirable to carry out a simple spraying of clean water in half an hour to reduce the likelihood of burns.
8. Make those elements that your plant are needed. Replace one fertilizer to others, to replace the mixtures with different composition can not be in any case. A higher concentration of one element cannot replace the absence of another.
9. Never perform feeding immediately after plants transplanting and wait 2-3 weeks before the next procedure.
10. Start feeding the plants only after 2 weeks of quarantine for newly acquired crops. And if the plant is powerful, healthy, grows in a high-quality substrate, then it is better to start to make fertilizers only after 2-3 months.
11. Discard feeding, if there is any suspicion of the development of root rot, violation of rooting, the wrong choice of acidity substrate. In no case do not feed those plants that suffer from diseases and pests, especially those that live in the soil.
12. Everything folk remedies, including the peel of fruit, coffee thickness, tea, etc. Pseudo-devices use unacceptable.

Types of fertilizers and features of their choice

In order to choose ideal fertilizers for your indoor plants, first of all you need to remember the need to take into account the individual features of each plant and its preferences. In the matter of choice of dozens of different drugs for indoor crops, it is unacceptable to search for a universal, applicable to all plants with a brass solution. Analysis of information on the specific nutrients required by a particular plant will help choose the form or type of specific fertilizer that can be used in its practice.

Three basic types of fertilizer for indoor plants:

1. universal fertilizers that are suitable for most indoor plants and universal;
2. fertilizers for blooming crops, the main advantage of which is the beauty of flowering;
3. fertilizers for decorative deciduous plants, the most attractive part of which is foliage.

But only three basic types necessary for each flower "set" of the feeding is not limited. Succulents, orchids, Rhododendrons, like many other plants, need special types of fertilizers.

For the form of fertilizer for indoor plants, divided into:

• liquid fertilizers, which are entered with water for watering - the most popular, universal safe option;
• long-term fertilizers that are laid in the substrate and exempt nutrients gradually, allowing you to abandon classic feeding for a long period of time (and thus simplify care);
• special fertilizers for extractive feeding, which spray on the leaves of the plant.

Fertilizers eating both in liquid form and in the form of powder, granules, briquettes, capsules.

Liquid humatic fertilizer for indoor plants. © seedsheets.

Fertilizers for indoor plants include three vital nutrient elements in equal proportions or in various ratios, optimally selected for the requirements of specific cultures. Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, supplemented with microelements, phytohormones, organic compounds, and sometimes useful bacteria with plants with all necessary for growth, development, health and beauty.

Fertilizers for indoor plants can be organic (use ash, bird litter, biohumus and other organic), purely mineral or combined - complex drugs. It is complex fertilizers that are the most popular and versatile. Today, there are a lot of microbiological and innovative fertilizer species, which are absolutely natural, natural, safe and do not contain any "chemistry."

Whatever fertilizer you have chosen, take into account your convenience, and plant requirements. You must carefully study and strictly adhere to the manufacturer's recommendations.

Perhaps someone believes that fertilizers for room colors are the desired, but not necessary, and that watering can be enough for them. Calculate so in the root incorrect. Flower fertilizers are vital, without them - and therefore, without vital substances - they will slowly develop, they will have no bloom, and if it is, it will not be fully in force.

Now in specialized flower shops there is a wide range of both mineral and organic feeding. In such a variety, it is very easy to get lost, especially if you have a newcomer with the choice. Let's try to figure out which fertilizers for room colors are, in what cases they need to be used, as if it is possible to save and prepare feeding at home.

Everyone without exception, even the most unpretentious home plants, are needed in the feeding. Imagine: Your flower grows in the same soil, in a limited power area. Over time, it strongly depletes the soil, choosing all nutrients from it. Even if he is planted in a large and wide pot, this problem does not solve. And even when a transplantation in a new substrate substrate with nutrients, the plant is not lacking than for a couple of months. It is unlikely that someone prefers every two months to transplant the plant into a new soil, instead of simply provide it with the necessary feeders.

There are some signs for which you can understand that the plant urgently requires nutrients. If the care was carried out according to all the rules, it will have enough lighting, enough moisture, watering regularly, but still observed, it means that it needs fertilizers. Signs will be either one of the listed, or several minutes at once:

• the plant grows too slowly;
• he has weak elongated stalks and pale drooping leaves, which turn yellow and fall out over time;
• the plant or does not bloom at all, or blooms very weakly, the buds are not formed, fall, do not bloom;
• the plant has reduced disease resistance.

The appearance of all these signals should not wait. It is best to start feeding the plant from the moment of its landing, and even if your green pet grows well and, it would seem, it does not feel deprived, this is not the reason to tighten with feeding.

When to make fertilizers

It is not necessary to imagine fertilizers, for them, too, have its own special rules for making:

1. Fertilizers in the period of spring-autumn, from the beginning of April and until mid-October. In winter, flowers, as a rule, do not feed, because most of them fall into hibernation at this time. At the same time, a decrease in the amount of fertilizer occurs gradually.
2. The feeding of any type should be made only in the moistage soil - this is a guarantee that there will be no burns on the roots of plants. Always thoroughly straighten the plant and wait at least three hours before making any substances into it. After making fertilizers, the plant is poured again.
3. Different plants need different fertilizers. Feeding for and feeding for deciduous plants differ in each other. Therefore, it is necessary to take into account when choosing a specific fertilizer.
4. Feeder is contraindicated by plants, patients and affected by pests.

Fertilizers can not be made immediately after transplantation. If you chose the ground correctly, it is already sufficiently all of the microelements necessary for the plant, but only for the first time. Fertilizers will need to be made in 2-3 months. This is especially true of plants purchased in flower shops, similar specimens are grown on an industrial scale, and therefore manufacturers care that there are more than enough nutrient elements in their soil.

Mineral fertilizers for indoor plants

Mineral feeding for room colors is represented by a spectrum of basic useful elements, or in comprehensive content. Each of these elements is important in a certain period of plant development. The presence and proportion of substances in complex fertilizers depends on a certain type of plant and from the stage of its development.

1. Nitrogen fertilizers are usually used to build up the green mass of the plant, that is, in the process of active vegetation. It is usually used this feeding of flowers in spring and summer, usually applies to feeding decorative-hardy varieties. Such species include, for example, palm trees, ficuses and alpinehers. With a high content of nitrogen, not only will be favored by rapid growth and proper development, but also will make the leaves healthier and more beautiful. But do not forget that surplus nitrogen is harmful to the flower, despite the fact that it stimulates the extension of the vegetative mass, it is capable of braking flowering.
2. Potash fertilizers as well as nitrogen are intended for active growth during the formation and set of vegetative mass.
3. Phosphoric fertilizers are required to all young rashes, these fertilizers for flowering play an important role. Therefore, such a type of fertilizer is extremely useful for decorative-blooming varieties. Such species need to be fed right away, as soon as buds are formed, and feed all the time of flowering until its end.
4. Complex feeders in different ratios include nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. Most often it is a universal feeding for flowers, and therefore they are useful to any varieties. For example, the combination of potassium and phosphorus is perfectly suitable for decoratively flowering varieties.
5. Microfertres. Contain any missing in the soil chemical elements - calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, molybdenum and so on. They are entered only when there are their drawbacks in the ground. Mineral fertilizers with the content of trace elements help develop and grow the root system, increase its immunity. Microfertres can be in their composition organic and components that stimulate rapid growth of the plant.

Table 1 "Signs of lack of mineral substances in room plants"

Fertilizers for indoor plants

By aggregative state mineral fertilizers They are divided into liquid and solid.

• Solid mineral subcord

This is a mixture of minerals in the form of granules and crystalline. Before entering into the soil, the dry mixture must be diluted with water so that there is no precipitate on the bottom, and the solution was completely homogeneous. It is important to accurately comply with the instructions on packaging with fertilizer. Also, dry fertilizers can be represented in the form of tablets, chopsticks or capsules. It is not necessary to breed them, it is a fertilizer of prolonged action, that is, substances in a similar case come to the roots of the plant gradually for a long time. For example, one wand is endowed with useful minerals for use on average from two months (there are fertilizers that are valid until six months). The composition of such fertilizers includes a whole complex of beneficial substances - both basic and trace elements.

• Liquid fertilizers for colors

Liquid fertilizers are most enformed in prizes

This is a concentrated saline solution. This type of fertilizer acts as a good addition to ordinary feeding, it is more convenient and effective, often has a purpose for certain varieties - for example, there are fertilizers specially for succulents for orchids for palm trees. It is important that liquid fertilizers make it possible to feed the plants with an extraordinated way. The extraordinary feeding of indoor flowers is to make fertilizers directly through leaves or stem by spraying and wiping them. With this method of making nutrients, you do not overstat the plant, it will absorb the required amount of substances. Some varieties that have pubescent or glossy leaves are succulents, palm trees and sensipolia, with difficulty absorb substances from the soil, and therefore in their case the extraordinary feeding is necessary.

Liquid fertilizers are good to everyone, but it is important to remember that this is not a replacement of the usual feeding. The root feeder is required by all plants without exception, the extraordinary is a convenient and efficient addition to the main feeder during active growth.

Organic fertilizers for indoor plants

Organic fertilizers are manure, litter, compost, humid, ash. Like minerals, they are excellent suppliers of nutrients. Regarding their use of flower products argue to this day, because despite their naturalness, the improper use of the organic can sometimes harm stronger than the use of chemicals. It happens from ignorance. If a person psychologically refers to the "chemistry", and once again will be due to the instructions for use, then in terms of the use of the organic, he can do thoughtlessly. But it is not always "natural" means "not hurt".

What could be dangerous organic? It can be reached by pests and illness. That is why organic fertilizer before the dressing must be sterilized. The process is unprecedented: sterilization is carried out with the help of fire, and then withstand almost a month so that the biosrene is recovered.

The organic cannot be used in the case of bulbous and plants. Decorative-deciduous varieties with incorrect use of organics risk becoming in monophonic green.

Flower feeding with household agents

To begin with, some myths, which are actively using the flower and to this day, transmitting their rich experience from generation to generation.

1. Coffee and tea pupil - more harmful than it has some sense. Tea welding does not carry any nutrients for the plant, all the benefits of its use lies only in a slight explosion of the soil. Coffee thickness decently increases the acidity of the soil, which is simply destructive for flowering plants.
2. The egg shell certainly does not contain anything nutritious, being only drainage and a dust of the soil.
3. Water after cooking meat. It is believed that after watering such a water flower is saturated with protein. Why for a flower protein - a rather controversial question.

Forming room colors with household means, in fact, the use of the same organic organics. Therefore, it is necessary to use them carefully and always observe the reverse reaction.

Here are some of the famous funds that use flower products:

Table 2 "Fertilizers for houseplants from home tools"

Fertilizers for room colors, in contrast to garden, often neglect. But home plants need extra nutrients no less, or even more than their street bonuses. The most important thing is to use them right, because the overabundance of both mineral and organic substances will negatively affect the plant.