anyone else love juicing plants with fertilizer and seeing them just go fuckin nuts w/ it (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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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[-] grendahlgrendahlgen@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Careful about giving your tomatoes too much nitrogen when they're at the flowering/fruiting stage. You'll want to switch to a fertilizer that has very little N but plenty of P and K, and you don't need to feed it as often because P and K don't wash it out of the soil as much as N does.