Omw y’all, I accidentally fertilized my thriving #bougain...
Omw y’all, I accidentally fertilized my thriving #bougainvillea twice within three weeks☹️. It went from growing and stretching and blooming to having sad, very yellow, crispy leaves, dropping blooms. I had been excited to try my new 8-4-8 fertilizer for acid-loving plants that I guess I spaced it. I wasn’t on Greg yet then.
What can I do to bring my beauty back? Does she need Nitrogen, Sulfur, Calcium? To be left alone? I should probably start with a soil test huh.
I feel like repotting her could help but that’s another issue I was hoping y’all could help me with: First, I just noticed a huge root coming from out of the pot and down my patio. Also, this plant has been growing all over my pergola, and I’ve been wrapping the stems around for years — so how do I now go about repotting it? There isn’t much wiggle room there. Do I need to remove it all from the pergola?
Thank you, fellow plant people - the best people! May you get to sink your bare hands into some loamy, beautiful soil. 🥰
*Picture is of her better days, taken one year ago. I didn’t take a picture of it today unfortunately.
Thanks y’all! Sorry to make it so long.
What can I do to bring my beauty back? Does she need Nitrogen, Sulfur, Calcium? To be left alone? I should probably start with a soil test huh.
I feel like repotting her could help but that’s another issue I was hoping y’all could help me with: First, I just noticed a huge root coming from out of the pot and down my patio. Also, this plant has been growing all over my pergola, and I’ve been wrapping the stems around for years — so how do I now go about repotting it? There isn’t much wiggle room there. Do I need to remove it all from the pergola?
Thank you, fellow plant people - the best people! May you get to sink your bare hands into some loamy, beautiful soil. 🥰
*Picture is of her better days, taken one year ago. I didn’t take a picture of it today unfortunately.
Thanks y’all! Sorry to make it so long.
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Hey! I’m so sorry honey. I think a repot would be best but otherwise I’d leave it alone. Can you have someone hold the root ball in place and slide the pot down/away and out? Like repot it in fresh clean soil without moving her? I’m afraid if you cut all the branches off it would put her into shock.
@RealSimpleMama Thank you, Sarah! You have the same thought I had — I’m going to have my husband hold the plant up so I can slide the new pot under it, hopefully without disturbing it too much! I was just about to do that today but got busy repotting other plants. Thanks for the suggestion! Makes me feel better about this plan for it. 🙂 I’ll post pictures soon to show how it works out.
