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Don’t look at fertilizers as food for your plants, it’s not. Your plants food come
from photosynthesis where it take sunlight, carbon dioxide, water and creates
sugars and starch, that’s the food for the plant. Look at fertilizers like vitamins
for us humans, it helps with better growth, better immune system, better root
growth and better water uptake.
Only add fertilizers when your plant is feeling well. There may be many reasons
why your plant may not feel well or even look good, nutrient deficiency is
rarely the case. It could be something else, you might have over watered the
plant, caused root damage, may not be receiving enough sunlight, may even be
too much sunlight, it’s too hot or its too cold. Take care of that problem first,
and when your plant is feeling well, growing and glowing, that’s when it really
needs fertilizers.
Never over fertilizer your plants. Use the recommended dose on the bottle.
We tend to over fertilizer our indoor plants, thinking it helps with growth, but
actually you are doing more harm to your plant. Usually, indoor plants are
given liquid fertilizers and they dissolve in water. What they dissolve into is
actually salt. That salt, is the simplest form, which the plants extracts. When
we over dose these plants with the fertilizers, we are actually turning the soil
into salt, and that can potentially kill your plants. Your plants need to be
fertilized when its actively growing not during the dormant period.
Avoid using organic compost to fertilize your plants. But its okay, out in the
nature, where there is a natural breakdown process, microbes, bacteria, fungi
and worms helping the breakdown process, and making it more accessible to
the plants roots pick up the nutrients. However, in the closed environment of
our pots, that same process is not available. It’s fine as a potting mix for your
indoor plant, but not as a direct fertilizer material.