What fertilizer should I use on my Epi's? What dose and how frequent? I have this huge oxypetalum and it has never bloomed. I am wondering if this may be the problem. Thanks!
Feeding Epi's
Rockdrky, we were just discussing this on this thread: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/518006/ and some good fertilizer recommendations were made there by Ursula. You are in a similar zone so this recommendation would be good for you too. It could be that your plant is not getting the proper lighting or the proper fertilizer. I used Schultz's Bloombuilder on my Epi oxy plants a couple of times this spring, and now I have buds on cuttings that just rooted last year. Since your Epi oxy is huge, it probably has a good deal of maturity and just needs some fertilizer to bloom. I would start using a fertilizer with a high middle number, like 10-52-10, and fertilize once a week or every other week. It seems like these plants are heavy feeders during the growing and blooming season.
Rats!!! I fed all my epies and cc this afternoon just before a heavy downpour that I didn't see coming (and was not forecast). Guess it's all washed away once again. In case it didn't all wash out, how soon before I can safely feed again? Peters 10-50-10.
edited to say I'm only cncerned about the ones in hanging coir baskets where there's not very much depth of soil.
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I'd give it a week or so........I'm pretty sure you didn't lose the full dose. Perhaps give it a half strength dose in case very little was actually lost.
I normally feed reduced strength fish emulsion every two weeks during the warm season (April - October).
Thanks. I noticed in one of the threads of mine Terry notified me she had moved shows both my mature epies blooming last June. I noted they had been in a dark cool basement for 3-4 months, kept rather dry, and then brought out to the deck and fed in May.
What's going on this year is like so many other years when I had them in Asheville. Kept in the warm and dry house for the winter, marginal late day light, and brought outside in May. Under those conditions they bloomed in late summer to early fall.