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Recommendation for water-soluble dragon fruit fertilizer
onur:
--- Quote from: elouicious on February 07, 2023, 03:49:44 PM ---Old trick for most Cacti if you can stomach it-
Urine
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Should be accomplished at night when no one is around! ;D
onur:
--- Quote from: K-Rimes on February 07, 2023, 01:56:54 PM ---An expensive solution. Dragonfruits for me are some of my lowest effort plants and get the least expensive and least time intensive solutions - just gobs of slow release fertilizer and chicken manure.
If you're really set on liquid, you can use pretty much any of them, but I would choose the cheapest possible like General Hydroponics. I have tried tons of fertilizers for indoor plants of uh, various types, and there is very little difference in the end product.
The issue with liquid fertilizer is in fact you're just paying for water and the shipping thereof.
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I agree. Even though you buy it from the store...
K-Rimes:
--- Quote ---No. I am just afraid of letting solid fertilizer touch the base of the DFs and causing them to rot, or disturbing the root system while mixing the fertilizer into the soil because they have little space in pots.
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Ok maybe I shouldn't admit this but sometimes I put on so much slow release vigoro that I can barely see the soil anymore. There seems to be no limit to how much fertilizer they can take. I've never even seen young shoots burn from it. This said, I only apply when it is warm enough for them to grow.
elouicious:
Ive had a similar experience K-Rimes
Someone told me once that Cacti can take really high N because (at least in theory) animals sometimes get wrapped up in cacti and die and then the rotting corpse is essentially draining onto the plant, could be an old wives tale though
tru:
as k-rimes said, most liquid fertilizers are designed for tomatoes ; ), they'll drink GALLONS of water/day in a matter of months. Anything your plant doesn't drink, stays in the soil as a salt
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