Tropicals & Tender Perennials: beginning to feed, 1 by OCCAROL

OCCAROL wrote:
acts238, I have Lilly Miller "Vita Bloom" , a liquid 0-10-10 , and "Hawaiian Bud& Bloom, 5-50-17, from Grow More. The bud & Bloom has micro nutrients. I used up my orchid bloom food from Grow More. Any of the low nitrogen foods will work. Don't know what you might find in your area, but now you have some names to look for. Just make sure they're getting plenty of light. At this time of year, mine get lots of sun. When things heat up, they need filtered sun. Mine live outside all year in my zone 10 climate, but we were in the mid 30s, at night for quite a while this winter. Just now stabalizing to 50s at night. I took this photo at 4:00 this afternoon. You can't see the buds on any but the German Empress in the forground, but all but 1 of them has lots of buds. There is another huge one directly behind the one on the right that will have blooms soon... The only mature one that isn't showing signs is the one in the back, closest to the wall, that was a large division, the rest were all from cuttings.