Why I'm Changing Fertilizers Again 🪴
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- I wanted to share in a quick video why I decided to switch up my fertilizer routine. I'm just going to experiment to see what works best for me and my plants.
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One of the TH-camrs I watch uses Dyna-Grow Foliage-Pro for their hydro plants. Once I use up my three part hydro fertilizer I'm switching to Foliage-Pro too. Mixing three different parts gets old quick.
I’ve been using Miracle Grow for 30+ years. 1/4 tsp. for 1 gallon of water. I use this every time I water, It’s super easy and my plants look great and some I have had for 20+ years and some are older and were my Moms plants. I just feel like it doesn’t have to be overly complicated.
This is exactly my situation too! BUT, my secret is that I use the Miracid Miracle Grow (for acid loving plants, but it’s best for all plants). A grower told me to use this because of the little bit of iron it offers, which also adjusts the ph. That allows more nutrients to be absorbed and gives the lush green growth. After trying it, all my plants became the best they have ever been. And grew bigger than average.
I also use just the basic miracle grow. I’ve never had any problems ☺️
Can’t use the granular stuff for semi-hydro, tho. She wants to use one fertilizer for semi-hydro and plants in soil. I mean her idea of using just one fertilizer is not going to work but that’s what she wants lol
I just use tap water and my plants look great 😅
I use foliage pro/ super thrive and love it❤I use highest dose and no plant burn 🔥 I also use the super thrive vitamin about once a month. I agree with other commenter goto local hydroponics stores I get giant perlite and clonex (I add couple drops for better root growth) for same or less than Amazon prices! My state weed is legal so hydroponics stores carry anything and everything you could want or need! No I don’t grow weed lol but many products they carry work great for houseplants bc growers buy best for optimal crops ;)
Whats the highest dosage please? I am looking to buy foliage pro but in my country its more on the pricey side so I just need to make sure I am fully happy with everything abt foliage before I buy it🤔😬
Yellowing of leaves could also be caused by too much fertilizer; especially around edges of leaves like you described. I have heard/read that this is what fertilizer burn could look like. The other thing that you pointed out are the yellow leaves are at the bottom of your plant it could be that those are the oldest leaves. It is normal for plants to discard their oldest leaves. You may try and experiment with cutting back on your fertilizer. These are just my thoughts.
Hey there! It's not normal to yellow off 7 leaves at once. These leaves are not old at all I just chopped the plant a few months prior. It's shock and I'm thinking from underfeeding because I wasn't fertilizing appropriately at first. No way was I overdoing it. The top growth is so big that it must be super hungry and it has so many roots in the pole already. It's hard to keep these big poles watered too because they dry out so fast.
I use superthive for my poles and plants while using osmocote and it’s perfect. Plants have no problems and are healthy.
Superthrive Foliage Pro is extremely similar to GT Foliage Focus. I use them interchangeably. The main difference is that Superthrive has a couple more micronutrients and also sodium (salt) so be sure to flush your semi-hydro media occasionally to prevent build ups. The reason GT is so expensive for you is that it comes from Australia. Here in New Zealand both products are similarly priced. The GT isn’t weaker. In fact, the recommended dose (5 ml per litre) is stronger than Superthrive. I ran all the nutrients through a hydroponic ppm calculator and GT at 3 ml per litre gave the most similar strength to the Superthrive weekly dilution. As long as you’re using either weekly, it should be enough. If you’re watering less than weekly, then dilute it a little less. Hope that helps!
Is this only for hydroponic or can be use in plants in soil too? Tia
@@lanicanabano6778 Both GT and Superthrive are suitable for soil and semi-hydro. That's why I like them - I don't have to mess around with different things for different plants.
I use miracle grow tropical plant food. One squirt per liter. My plants are super happy and it isn’t crazy expensive.
I started using a hr GT foliage focuses around the same time as you. I love it and my plants do too. Your reasoning and total sense for switching ans if I was going through it as fast as you I’d be switching too!
I use the Schultz, cheap at Walmart, and I add drops of the Super thrive Foilage Pro too, that’s all I use! Plants are great! 😊
My plants have been putting leaves out like crazy since I started using this fertilizer. I use the silica as well. I started with 1/2 tsp then upped it to a whole tsp. I can tell a difference in the color of my plants and the size of the leaves. I have an alocasia that has gave me three leaves back to back. Each one coming out before the last one hardens off. I have 7 leaves and so far haven’t lost one since I started using this fertilizer. I have only been using for a few months but I am really loving it and my plants definitely seem to be. I believe it has a good dose of calcium and magnesium so you wouldn’t need to use the cal mag.
LOVE my SUPERthrive Foilage-Pro! I’ve been using since last summer and my plants love it!
Yes, GTFF is expensive and slow to ship. I passed on FP due to the prop86 warning. I now use GH flora 3 part system with great results.
Thank you for making this video! I'm also getting the same yellowing/lighter green areas on my frydek and macrorrhiza. I think they too have enjoyed pon so much that they've outgrown their pots. But also off to buy some ph down as their nutrient solution is reading 7ph. Thank you 😊
Adansonii so notorious for chlorotic-looking leaves; if not an over-watering issue then giving a shot of iron always worked for me. My favorite is Garden Pro Quick Green with Iron ( scant capful) added to my fertilizer in my 2 gal watering can. Greens-up plants very quickly and keeps them that way. I love Osmocote+ fertilizer, too, one of the best imo, but like you said, it only lasts 3 months.
Thanks for this, mine is looking this way too despite being tiny (less than 50 cm lol)
Best fertilizer ever!
I love your videos! I keep telling my husband how much I learn/you answer a lot of my questions without even trying; you're just simply carrying on taking care of your plants meanwhile answering questions I have in my mind lol
Thank you so much! 🥹🫶
I had same issue with GT FF. I use MaxSea. Lasts me about a year and my plants love it
I love the Foliage Pro it’s been one of my favorite fertilizers. My issue is that I’m not on top of fertilizing that often 😅
I’m excited to try it out and see how it goes!
I Love Superthrive....I use 1/2 tsp/gal every time I water on houseplants and the same ratio on my Vanda orchids with Superthrive Bloom every 4th wk for them. everything doing great!
Hello, all I have to say is Superthrive works great in semi hydro. I love it. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Love foliage pro! Hoping you enjoy it too. I use 1/4 teaspoon per gallon every watering and haven’t had any nutrient issues.
Thank you! 🙏🏼
You will love Foliage Pro. It’s a complete fertilizer and “ideal” (at this time) NPK ratio. Big plus is it has cal and mag, so no lockout. I use 1/4 to 1/2 strength every water. Great bang for the buck as well.
I still sprinkle Osmocote plus to my pots, especially on my citrus and bananas. I look at it as a supplement vs the primary.
Oh my, that Epi pole next to your Adansonii looks so stunning with that contrast. Nice positioning to really have it pop!
Hi Melissa, it’s very confusing to choose nutrients because so many choices.
I am in the process of switching some plants to Pon and during my research I learnt that some plant does not like their roots sitting in the solution which can cause leaves yellowing.
Hi Melissa! I've used the Foliage Pro for a few years, then tried the Foliage Focus. I didn't notice any difference, so the Focus, in my experience, works just as well as the Foliage Pro. I use the Maintenance dose of the Foliage Pro, but you might find one of the other dosages works better for your plants. I use it every other watering instead of every watering (along with calmag and silica).
Love your collection and videos! I have both GT Foliage Focus and Dyna Gro Foliage Pro, and I use them for different things. I grow most of my collection in pon and for most plants (alocasias, anthuriums, pothos, monstera, philodendron, aglaonema, begonia, etc), I use Foliage Pro, but when I used it on my calatheas and marantas, over time, they seemed like they were crisping around the edges, and I wondered if it was overfertilization. I backed way off on the fertilization and switched to once monthly Foliage Focus and their new growth is not crispy at all. Caveat, I've only been doing this new regimine for a couple of months, so I don't know if any nutrient deficiencies will become obvious with time, but for now, they seem happy and healthy. My other genuses that require a little more nutrients do very well with Foliage Pro. Time will tell.
I have used a variety of different fertilizers as well, I feel like it was an effect of being stuck during quarantine and trying everything everyone recommends. But everytime I see hints of yellowing leaves cal mag has always saved me.
Tried GT and it worked well just $$$, like you said. Now using foliage pro for almost a yr. Using 1 cap full per gallon. Every time I water. Works well. Always have new growth everywhere. Even this time of year.
It’s so hard to know which fertilizer to try and like you said it can get really expensive. Hopefully the new one you got to try will make your plants happy 💚
Becareful you may have nutrient lock out (I know the adansonii had issues before with yellowing ) with the adansonii that happened to me with my dubia. I had to repot and add nutrients in the correct way which took me a little longer, like using cal mag first before GT. And then if I use silica then I have to add that first before anything. Nutrient lock out is very common , and your poles (like mine) are really hard to fertilizer because moss holds onto the salts and it’s hard to “flush” the poles out. So I had to make major adjustments with fert. Moss. but it’s tough to fix . Sending you love and healing for tryout babies ❤
But I can say watching from afar like on insta and TH-cam - after GT your plants had some crazy increase in size and it was so cool to see ❤
The moss was fairly new since I chopped it and I’m surprised it would be holding onto salts that much to cause a lockout in that short time. I have other poles that have really old moss and no issues with them. I thought GT didn’t have sodium so just the tap water causing the buildup possibly?
I use general hydroponics in all my plants at about a quarter strength each time I water them. For sensitive plants like addasonaii I fertilize every other watering. Both alocasias and addasonaii get fertilizer burn very easy. I also started with foliage focus but quickly learned it sizes up the leaves but does not have enough macronutrients to sustain plants in Pon or Leca. Good luck in your fertilizer journey. I love your channel and all of your beautiful plants. I am cat mom too😊
Thanks for sharing! I’m glad I tried it out and most of my plants seem happy with it! I’m hoping they like the foliage pro and I can figure out all the issues going on. I may look into a different fertilizer for hydroponics based off some other suggestions ☺️💚
Your Alocasia is so big and pretty. I hope she gets better soon 🙏
Hey Melissa, love your videos. They help so much. Which brand upright grow light are you using in front of your plants on this video?
I love GT Foliage Focus, which I've been using for the past 15 months or so, and Rootzone for the past 8 (when it became available). But I live in West Australia, where GT was born, so the cost is a lot more manageable - I buy the 5 litre jug of FF and it lasts more than a year, even though 3/4 of my 60+ plants are in leca.
But you need to use what works for you. 😊
I hope Foliage Pro works for you, as it does for me. I use it in conjunction with vitamin B1 (to lower the PH, as well as helping root development). I use 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of Foliage Pro and 1/4-1/2 teaspoon of Vitamin B1 per gallon of filtered water (adjust the amount of B1 so that the PH level is around 5.5 - 6.5 , and adjust the amount of FP according to the growing seasons. ). All my plants have no problem, except for one or two plants which do not have great results (yet doing OK).
I’m using the GT Foliage Focus with GT CloneX.
My alocasia leaves also was yellowing and since i been using Cal mag it help with yellowing use cal mag every watering and is the first thing that go in the water then other fertelizer hope this helps😊❤
I love absolutely love GT.
I don’t know if you can get it in America, but I can easily buy the 5 L of it over here in Australia.
Edit: that’s one reason you’re changing - price. It must be Australian brand because it’s incredibly easy to get here. We have Osmocote too. That’s everywhere, as well, I keep that for my outdoor plants though (and it’s for six months long term feed)😊
I use the foliage focus and i love it! I use it three times out of 4 during growing season and during winter i used it 1 time out of 4
I dont use the full dosage and my plants are growing LIKE WEEDS! I sometimes want them to slow their growth 😂
I use both the ones you mentioned, but I believe it’s closer to 4 tsp per gal of water. It’s *5ml per ltr of water. Hope your adansonii recovers. Thanks for sharing Melissa!
*I’m referring to GT Foliage Focus. Sorry if I confused anyone.
Are you saying the foliage pro is 4 tsp per gallon?
Yes, for Foliage Focus
I’m referring to the GT Foliage Focus
been watering my adansonii on a moss pole with GT FF once a week at 3-5 mL/L and haven't had any of these issues. Occasionally get a yellow leaf the bottom of the plant but I put this down to natural aging. Only time I've noticed signifciant yellowing is when I've overwatered the pole and accidentally left water in the saucer for too long. In saying that I'll be making the switch to Foliage Pro soon as its more cost effective and essentially the same product by the looks of things.
I’ve heard of their roots sit bare in fertilizer water you’ll get yellowing. I just started pon this summer too so I’m going back and checking the outgrown roots. I’m going to put some screen mesh in the pot to prevent the outgrow
hmm, what about for plants that are just grown in water? I have a few plants currently growing in hydroponics only and they seem fine - no yellowing or anything like this. I think it may have been root bound/or underfed possibly waiting too long to feed.
I know plant enthusiasts in my area rely on Plant Haul in Tustin to get their Foliage Focus supply.
I rotate my plant waterings with Liquid Dirt and Foliage Pro/Superthrive since I still have so much Liquid Dirt left lol. With Foliage Pro I’ve been using 1 cap full per 1 gallon of water. I use it with all my plants that are in straight water, lecca, pon, and soil/non soil potting mix. My plants love it.
I found Liquid Dirt yellows plants compared to GT or Superthrive. Never understood the hype. I can’t even use minimally without issues.
@@redlady3123 Really that’s not good. I’ve been using Liquid Dirt for about 2 years and I’ve never had any issues like that.
Did you have a good experience with the foliage focus aside from it being pricey and taking long to get? i just purchased some, i was using the slow release pellets with the super thrive nutrients in the water and really havent noticed much change. i also wanted to swap to a liquid fertilizer because like you i have a pretty hefty plant collection and didnt want to be bothered with adding the pellets into the soil every x amount of weeks. Im gonna be following to see you you like the foliage pro because im on the newer side to fertilizer and its stressful to me :/
i didnt realize that getting into plants as a hobby there was a ton of science to it and its slightly overwhelming when i realize there are things i should be monitoring like PH in my plants.
Dynagro, silica, and calmag are the only fertilizers I use!
I hope this solves the yellowing! 🌿✨
I had never noticed a difference in my plants until I tryed plant juice by elm dirt. When I used it all my plants looked so happy?
I suspect nutrient lockout due to pH. The easiest way to correct this in my opinion is to add beneficial microbes to help buffer the medium
I use Super Thrive and Silica but maybe I need to change. My adonsonii also yellows!
I have the 3 part liq flora bloom flora grow,and flora micro plus silica and calmag and i fertelized my plants every watering and if u see my hoya and anthu they explode w new growth
I have a little four ounce bottle of Superthrive, but I'm not sure if it's the same as what you have, and I've never tried the other fertilizer you got. I hope the Superthrive works out well for you considering it's easier to obtain and more budget friendly. ❤🌿😉🌼
The little 4oz bottle is superthrive vitamin solution it’s not a fertilizer. It’s a vitamin compound used with fertilizer. I use it once a month and I use the superthrive/ foliage pro with each watering. Hope this helps you :)
That plant is beautiful, it makes me long for more space. You do a great job !
Thank you! 😊
Please please please video repotting your micholitziana. It’s my fave plant! She’s so beautiful, mine is struggling to transfer to pon and would love to get it as big as yours
I’ve upsized her already and filmed it 😁
Your plants are gorgeous! I would make sure that your soil is at least 1 1/2 inches dry on top before watering. Its possible you are overwatering somewhat. I tend to do that when I think mine are not doing well. Its so hard to know!
My soil mix is super aerated maybe 20-30% coco coir now at most. It dries quickly especially over the summer when it hits 80 deg + in that room!
Hi , I use Foliage - Pro. But I am on a budget and my plant collection isn't even a collection. My plants love it. Thanks
💚💚 fingers crossed nutrients/feeding can be so confusing lol
Hope you see my comment about moss holding onto the salts from fertilizer in the poles. It’s almost impossible to really flush out a moss pole. ❤❤❤❤
Keep us posted on the super thrive
My alocasia frydek is in pon but I might need to supplement and more fertilizer (the lechuza fertilizer is probably all gone by now).
Do you use a ec/ppm pen? Makes life so much easier. Can easily track and measure your feedings. It’s also a helpful tool to see how much nutrients is in your soil, just measure the water draining out bottom of pot after watering.
I purchased a digital PH reader and calibrated it but it was off for some reason. Do you have one you recommend? 😁
@@plantsbymelissa I’ve had the cheapest version of the Apera PH pen for 3 years. The ec/ppm pen for measuring nutrients I use is just a generic brand.
Hey I might sound really dumb, but I have encountered the same problem on my Alocasia micholitziana, and it turned out I had spider mites. Same as my Pothos. I used a magnifying glass w bright LED lights and spotted those buggers.
I’ve been wanting to try foliage pro after I use up the rest of my miracle grow. I’ve had it for years and i hate to waste. Regardless, my plants are all doing well but my main reason for switching is starting to do hydro/semi hydro. I’m not sure if miracle grow can be used but I feel like not. ❤❤ let us know how you feel about it!
I don’t know that you will be able to use just one nutrition product easily for all your plants across all media. You could use your liquid for semi hydro and maybe moisten your moss poles with a dilution of the semi hydro solution, but i found it expensive and confusing and time consuming to use the liquid ferts for my plants in soil. I use that same foliage product in the black bottle for semi hydro (I don’t even bother with the ph stuff. My water is super hard. I just tell my plants ‘figure it out’ lol) and I would dilute what was left over from hydroponics to water my plants in soil. the plants in soil don’t like that product as much as my plants in semi-hydro like it. I use captain jacks very diluted as a continuous feed almost every time I water my plants in soil and it works well. They grow well and whenever I repot something the roots systems are vigorous. But your hard work and diligence is paying off the because your plants look amazing. I hope you enjoy them and don’t stress yourself out too much trying to treat them with the best of everything. 😊 Plants have been here millions of years and they know how to beautiful where they can be beautiful without a lot of help from humans 😊🥰
Foliage Pro has been highly recommended by a lot of old-school plant growers forever. I feel like there was some confusion when SuperThrive purchased the product and now it's called SuperThrive Foliage Pro. Because it is not at all related to the old SuperThrive product. Foliage Pro is a great, balanced fertilizer. And bonus it can be used for both hydro and soil based plants just like GT Foliage Focus. Also, you can use Foliage Pro along with nutricote or osmocote as well.
Hope you figure it out, my adansonii is having similar issues and I came to the same conclusion that I need to fertilize more, but it's the only plant I have showing problems. It makes me wonder if big adansonii specifically use a lot more nutrients than most other plants when their leaves get really big.
I always start by using half the recommended dose!
I’m no expert, but my adensoniia had a problem of accumulating mineral salts in the soil and it made the foliage to go yellow like this. My case was excess of fertilizer
I was thinking the same….she put too much.she just need to put regular water for a month or 2 and then continue with the fertilizer
This might be bad but I put osmocote in my plants when I repot and I still use a liquid fertilizer almost every time I water and I just use whatever fertilizer I feel like using that day. I usually grab either superthrive or the foliage focus but I have a couple other ones as well that I sometimes use because it’s there LOL.. anyways I’ve had no issues at all. I don’t put tooo much osmocote in but a little sprinkle. Everything is growing well thankfully 🙈
I also use osmocote and a liguid fertilizer, but I usually don’t use the liquid maybe every other week.
I added a ton in my adansonii so I hope it doesn’t mind haha 😂
Melissa, is there a Hydroponics store near you? When I started on my LECA/PON journey I went and talked to the lady at the local hydro store and she steered me towards the Botanicare line. I mix my nutrient solution for all my plants with their Hydroguard, Cal-Mag Plus, Pure Blend Pro, and Rhizo-blast. I also occasionally include some BloomCity Silica Blast. Keep hoping Kaylee Ellen’s solution comes to the US soon
There is one here in Savannah but haven't been to it. I'll have to look into that line, appreciate it!
I use fertiliser with every watering, never flush, invest in an EC meter, it gives you so much more control over nutrients, plants are looking gorgeous as usual 😍
Thank you! I'm definitely going to get an EC meter!
Super thrive isn’t that great ! GT is awesome ! My plants love it ! I use a cap full per gallon of water
Foliage pro isn't that great, how come?
Melissa, how much light do you give to your plants? As far as I can see, you have Mother lights, which are quite powerful. Changing fertilisers combined with strong lights can quickly throw plants off balance. The plant is photosynthesising in overdrive and the nutrient intake is not keeping up.
I reduce the lighting in the plant room by about 15-20% when I change fertiliser (I'm just switching to Compo). The regeneration time sometimes takes up to a month. It is especially important to stop further yellowing of the leaves.
Yellowing of the lower leaves and normal beautiful new leaves are a good indicator that the plant is going into partial saving mode, taking/saving from the old parts to provide nutritional support for the new growth.
It's in front of a barrina T10 so it's not super intense light. I definitely feel I was underfeeding it just from the size of this plant.
@@plantsbymelissa Barrina T10? Omg, I can't wait for these lights to be available on Amazon again! I need 3 sets for my Monstera and Iresine Bloodleaf, as I watch all around YT demos they are top for the money.
Love GT but you are right, plant haul is small operation it seems and delivery is slow. Me and my plants love it though.
Hopefully, it will improve for them! I definitely got upset it was taking soo long haha I was like 3 weeks is too long 🙈
Have you ever thought about adding worm castings to your potting mix?
I do 😊💕
With the Foliage fertilizer, I had to wait one month from ordering to get it. BUT, I had to reach out to seller in CA and she said it got lost in mail but will resend it. I’ve heard this story several times on TH-cam from others.
Hopefully, the shipping time gets better for them!
I don’t PH down if it’s less than 8 just because I hear tropical plants prefer a more acidic water
I hope your fertilizer and the repot helps your plants.
Thank you!! 🙏🏼
Algorithm ✔️ads ✔️like ✔️ can’t wait for the results!
I use Alaskan Fish fertilizer
Hi, Melissa… can you also use superthrive pro to fertilize plants in soil? I looked at the back and it seems like the instruction is for hydroponics only? Not sure if there’s one for plants in soil…TIA
Could it be a calcium/magnesium deficiency?
Not sure! 🤔 I’m going to see how the new growth comes in with the foliage pro and the change in nutrients + the upsize I just did! 🫶🏻
when you notice iron deficiency in your plants you may try lowering the pH in the pot and make it more acidic. I think you probably already know that but iron is more available for plants in acidic soil. Nitrogen on the other hand is more available in alkaline soil. If i were you i whould try get a pH of 5.
I'm wondering if it's a light issue for the alocasia and not a fertilizer issue? I think I remember you saying that specific one wasn't getting enough light and whenever I have my alocasias in a spot with even slightly less light they start yellowing leaves like crazy (especially the bigger ones). Not sure about the other plants, but it could be that it's a different issue for this one specifically. Also, the alocasia may be even hungrier if it's not getting the light it needs/wants?
Very true! I recently added more light so hoping that helps! I also upsized it yesterday haha so that’ll be a video next week!
This and folage pro are identical!
So I have been struggling to figure out how to fertilize my plants this whole year basically, I cant tell if I'm under fertilizing or overfertilizing. I get the same symptoms you have on some of your plants. Mostly its my pon/leca plants that are struggling, right now I am using Foliage Pro at 1/2 tsp per gallon and flushing once or twice a month. Right now I'm going to switch some of my semihydro plants back to soil as my soil plants seems to have less issues. What do you think, should I fertilize more, I'm just afraid of fertilizer burn.
I’m sorry you’ve been having issues with the fertilizer and some of the plants are struggling 🥲 I might stick with the 1 tsp per gallon and see how it goes and if I need to adjust. I worry about over and under feeding too! I haven’t been using a liquid feed for that long so I’m not sure what to tell you as far if you should feed more or not. You can test different amounts of the fertilizer on certain plants to see how they respond? I may end up doing that with some of mine 💚
Superthrive is soo Great..foliage pro 😊😊😊😊
I know at one point you were talking about using silica. Did you use it on your Micholitziana by chance?
I haven’t used it on it yet!
@@plantsbymelissa Well, that’s definitely not the culprit then!
Hey Melissa - Just wondering what you didn’t like about Liqui-dirt. I know it can be a hassle mixing it. Did you feel it wasn’t really doing anything for your plants? I’ve been using for 2 years every watering long with Osmocote every 3 mos. Just not sure the Liqui-dirt is helping my plants 🌱🤷🏻♀️ Thanks! 💚😽
liquidirt didn't do much for my plants at all. I got really tired of mixing it too. When I switched completely to osmocote my plants exploded!
I've been liking the GT FF, but I'm also curious about a few other ones that I see recommended a lot.. 😅
I’m very open to trying things out to see what will work best for me. If I don’t notice much of a difference with the foliage pro compared to GT then I might stick with it since I can get it in a day and it’s cheaper lol.
@@plantsbymelissaabsolutely!! Gotta do what works for your plants and your wallet!
That's what I was considering as well, if there's comparable nutrients but its cheaper, I'm all for it 😂
Just wondering as I've always struggled with this, how do you keep track of which plant you've fertilised and when? Do you have an app? Thanks for the great content as always 😊💖🪷
Thank you! Since I'm using liquid now I end up watering every week with fertilizer. Most of my plants get watered once a week now. Some twice a week or some every 2 weeks. I'm pretty good at keeping track just from memory now. My pon reservoirs I started adding a sticker to the back of their pots since I just started fertilizing some of them so I don't get confused. I used an app back in the day but I quit using planta since I got lazy with inputing data.
@@plantsbymelissa Oh OK, I see 😊 Thanks so much, I might use an app as my memory is pretty bad 😆
As some others have commented, yellowing can also be caused by too much nitrogen. Maybe you’ve over fed.
@plantsbymelissa Are you still going to try the root zone? Or will you try to find a different product that compares?
I'm not ordering it now since the shipment got lost. I think I'm going to see how it goes with the foliage pro. I may end up going back to GT but we'll see. If I do order a new bottle then I will try the root zone :)
Im in the UK i use liquid gold leaf - its so good! Not sure if you can get that in the US?
I don’t think we can, unfortunately 😢
I believe it's on amazon!
Oh really??? I checked awhile ago and didn’t see it. I will have to look again. People in UK are always saying how good it is. I too, have been using GT FF but it is pretty darn expensive. My plants love it but my pockets don’t lol.
Is this the correct one? www.amazon.com/dp/B0927861NN?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzmeli0992-20&creativeASIN=B0927861NN&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.28JOY1BVWMKEK&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin
I’ve looked for liquid gold leaf on amazon o. And couldn’t find it. I know Charmaine used to use it till she ran out of it. But she lives in Canada where they can get it.
I have used the foliage Pro super thrive for a year. I add 1/4 tsp to a gallon water every feeding and my plants have done well. I don’t have any plants as large as yours so I don’t know why the yellowing is occurring. I’m curious if the yellow is occurring due to the chang and too much fertilizer. I switched to miracle grow for a few feedings and a few of my plants started yellowing and declined. Hopefully someone can help you out
I use super thrive / foliage pro for my pon works great!
I'm curious if I am overdoing it why more plants aren't yellowing then 😕 I use the same water/amount for all my poles now. I really think it's just super hungry. It seems to have slowed down since filming this but still monitoring it closely.
For pon I am not sure yet - going to try the foliage pro for now but long term I don't know what I will end up using or if I will switch to a diff one!
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What is your tap water ph? Does the Foliage Pro change it?
Tap about an 8 ph
I am a new to your channel, what kind of self watering pot you use? Where I can find it? Thanks
I get mine off of amazon! I can link them here for you! www.amazon.com/shop/plantsbymelissa/list/3DGT1T05R3EUS?tag=onamzmeli0992-20&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d
I need to get some orange juice to get a container like that.
hehe they leak a lot though! I'm phasing them out slowly lol
I wanted to try Liquidirt, but they cant ship to California 😣😣
Could it be flat mites ?
I haven’t noticed any weird markings on it. I’m pretty sure the flat mites are all gone at least for now haha 😂🙏🏼
Is this Foliage Pro a relabeling/repackaging of Dyna-Grow Foliage Pro?
Yes! I noticed Amazon still has some of the old packaging for sale as well. Looks like superthrive is replacing the name of dyna grow but it’s still foliage pro fertilizer!
@@plantsbymelissa Thank you for the reply! I still have some in the Dyna-Grow bottle. Now I know, when I replenish, that I'm getting the same product. (I also have some Growth Technology to finish up. Because I alternate them, I cannot tell if one is significantly better than the other. Do you feel there's a "noticeable" difference?)