Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Leaf rooting experiment, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Last year I repotted all the new ones and maybe half of the old ones with regular Miracle Gro potting mix (with fertlilizer already added). I might've sprayed a few times (3 to 6?) with water soluble fertilizer with a hose end sprayer. Started with a weak solution (1 TSP per gallon rate) and by the last couple of sprayings upped the ante to 1 TBSP or more.

I hand watered all pots once or twice with water soluble fertilizer as well so the roots get the feeding instead of the foliage.

Any old pots that did not get repotted I added some slow release fertilizer to the top of the soil - some got heavy doses due to spillage so good thing it was slow release because I have killed several young plants with regular fertilizer (big plants love it but young small ones are often victims to regular garden fertilizer).

All I know is for the folks who repot every plant each and every year - KUDOS to them! It is a lot of work and many bags of soil. I went through 9 or 10 of the largest bags of potting mix last year (the ones that are about 4 feet long).