I have several passiflora vines. I have read that they should not be fertilized. Mine are all in pots and the foliage is looking kind of yellow. Also most have not bloomed. They are all in pots in about 50% sun and 50% shade.
Somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'm really tempted to fertilize with some nitrogen.
Thanks for any help.
Kay
How to take care of passiflora vines
I fertilize and there loaded with buds,work a little epson salt in with your soil also,maybe a little ironite.
Thanks, Tropicman. Will do.
Kay
I fertilize mine too just like I do with every other flower in my beds. For the last 2 years, I've been using either Peter's Bloom Booster or Miracle Grow's equivilent. Both have fert. values of roughly 10-50-10 and I spray it all over every bed. From Canna's,cosmos, cleome, hibi9scus, dahlias and everything in between. they all get this stuff and all seem to thrive.
That's my 2 cents worth;)
JD
I treated them to some Superbloom today. That ought to give them a lift. Thanks.
Kay
Tropicman. Could you give me some info and reason's behind using epson salt in your garden? Do you use it only on a few selected plants or all over? I've heard of people using it before but I can't recall what the reasoning was behind it.
Thanks Amigo, JD
Kay-
If you REALLY want to jack it up, lol...you can (to a five gallon bucket) add a capful of superthrive(vitamins and hormone), your normal dose of fertilizer(nitrogen), and a cup of epssom salts(magnesium sulfate), and some alfalfa pellets either in the water, or scratched into the top of the soil around the roots...
That brew has brought things of mine "back from the dead" lol...
-T
seedpicker's recipe is great except for the use of superthrive at this stage of the plant. Superthrive can actually slow down blooming as it focus' on root production and vegatative growth phases of the plants. Don't get me wrong as I love superthrive too. I have a big article on superthrive I need to copy in here for all of us to read a it sheds a bunch of light on what superthrive actually is and the how's/why's it does what it does. It's great but it can inhibit flowering with the hormones it contains, they're the wrong chemical signals for flowering.
I hope that makes some sense and I'll try to get the copy of this article on the puter for you all to see. It's very informative and it also explains why the maker's of superthrive won't list the ingredients on the label. They claim that if they listed the ingredients, it's so simple to make that no one would buy it from them anymore!
When asked what it actually is, they gave this analogy.
"Knowing that a seed contains all the hormones and nutients needed to sustain a plant up to the point if it growing out of seedling status... Now imagine taking millions of seeds that have sprouted and press them to the point of draining all the liquids out of them and collecting it and adding some extra trace elements, B vitamins and hormones. That is about as close as I can describe what the ingredients are with out listing them out right.". That isn't an exact quote but it is the jist of their explanation.
Goodluck;)
JD
I recommended superthrive because her plant is already stressed and the leaves are yellowing...
superthrive is great for shock, and stressed plants do not bloom, anyway...
-T
Taylor, I've used a brew similar to that to fertilize my brugs with.
JLD, an interesting explanation of Superthrive. I'd love to read the entire article.
Don't make the same mistake I did with "The Brew". I had a bunch of it left over at the end of summer last year.....a big garbage can full. I left it all winter. This spring I held my nose, watered it down quite a bit, and watered the brugs with it. BIG MISTAKE! I burnt them all. I guess it "cooked" all winter. When I poured the rest of it out, I needed a clothespin for about the next month! LOL!
Thank you both for your input!
Kay
EWWW I can imagine, that must of been horrible. For future refference, You want foods with aerobic bacteria like that in your fresh stews and not anaerobic bacteria( the smell of decay/rotten material). If your using an airstone in your alfalfa stew, the air makes it hospitable for the good bacteria, otherwise it would quickly rot too. I've made many different stews in the past similar to yours, if you were to add a tiny amount of compost or compost enhancer(good bacteria) and a airstone or have excellent circulation that adds air...Your breeding billions of the aerobic bacteria that our plants root system interacts with resulting in humic and amino acids and many other goodies that happen naturally w/o us seeing it. Its fascinating stuff on a cellular level and what our plants do when in living soil. You wouldn't believe all the funky stuff goinng on under the surface.
I have tons of interesting literature on these aspects of gardening but you need to be a rocket scientist to comprehend much of it sadly. I ran into it all when I was growing in hydroponics then converting to bioponics by introducing many of the living "bugs" that Ma Nature does all the time. Its wild stuff.
I'll try to get you some of it;)
JD
I'd love to read that stuff. Any of it on the net that I could look up?
If so, what would I look under?
Thanks!
Kay