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I'm giving my tomato plants fertilizer like every two or three days partially because they seem to love it and partially to offset the spider mites sucking them dry that this stupid fucking spider mite spray isn't killing. Anyway, it's real satisfying watching them respond to it and shoot out the lushest most verdant emerald greenery you can imagine

I'm doing the same thing with my lemon tree basically and whenever it gets its plant foods it's like YESSS and starts shooting out all kinds of new growth like crazy. It's got this one bit of new growth that's got leaves as big as my fucking hand like omg i love it. Did you know lemon leaves and shoots smell lemony?? wow, amazing. Too bad I don't live in a zone where it can reliably survive the winter in the ground

(My plan is to keep taking cuttings and keep it going as a line of clones until climate change lets me plant it)

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Yeah it's basically like salting the earth, kills roots, also i guess you can "lock out" other nutrients or something? But tbh that's been too much nerd shit to matter for my plants, they're like omnomnom gimme nitrogen

I'm also watering them like every damn day because the tomatoes at least slurp up the all the water in the pots they're in. Surprisingly nothing has had apparent root problems despite all this plus me entirely forgetting to put a layer of rocks/garden fabric at the bottom to stop them from clogging the drains

But yeah basically at this point (the tomatoes being as tall as a man) i dump 2 teaspoons of miracle grow on top of the soil and then just hose it down until the pot is so saturated water runs out of the bottom and it works great. I'd have so many tomatoes if they didn't get spider mites that this stupid fucking spider mite spray is absolutely not killing

If I skip it for too long i see a noticeable decline in vegetative growth + yellowing of what there is so im gonna keep doing it

P.s. part of why im watering daily is also it's usually over 90 degrees outside n they be thirsty

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

if you're watering to the point that it drains every day then you're probably helping wash away excess fertilizer too, overdoing it probably isn't a risk rn

that's what i figure yea

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