Beginner Gardening: Question about fertilizer, 1 by FertiSorb

FertiSorb wrote:
You're right about excess nutrient inhibiting plant growth. Plants need a certain amount of stress to remind them of their mortality and to tell them it's time to reproduce; they really don't need much in the way of nutrient, they just need it at the right time. It's all in the manner of nutrient delivery; I use a fertilizer which provides beautiful results using up to 6 times less nitrogen than the popular water solubles and slow release fertilizers. That way you don't get the huge foliage growth with no blooms. A fertilizer that relies on the plant's ability to figure out when and how much it needs (and plants can do that, my experience has convinced me of it) will result in a healthy plant and good flowering. That may sound goofy, but I've taken tissue and media samples of diverse plants fed with the same fertilizer and have achieved nutrient levels in both which indicate that plants discriminate as to which nutrient they will absorb and how much. One plant will have a high concentration of one nutrient in the tissue with a corresponeding absence of the nutrient in the media, while another species will do just the opposite. In addition, if you're doing containers and hanging baskets, and are using container media, you won't have the necessary mychoraizal elements needed to break down organic material.