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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[-] Omegamint@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Depends on a number of factors. If you're talking about synthetic nutes then yeah you can get nutrient lockout eventually. Generally you'll see a few signs on the way there though (leaves get absurdly green, and then finally start to burn at the tips). Also its really much less of an issue for container plants as the excess nutes will drip out, but that can lead to nutrient buildup elsewhere, wherever those drippings end up! Ph wise, if the soil is actually still got some organic matter to let the microbes live (really not a good idea to just completely ignore organics in favor on synthetics), soil has a tendency to adjust itself.