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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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[-] FedPosterman5000@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

I water plants with my aquarium water when I change it and they really like it - yim yum

they need more food than that though! go give them that juicy artificial chemical shit and teach them why the haber bosch process feeds half of humanity

[-] FedPosterman5000@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Haha oh I’m a user: fish fertilizer and bone meal for typical upkeep, and milorganite (processed “recycled biosolids” from good ol Milwaukee) if I’m starting a big garden from scratch

[-] pierre_delecto@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

I'm interested in milorganite but I've heard those recycled biosolids products can have concerning levels of PFAS. Although to be fair everything has concerning levels of PFAS.

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