Homemade Fertilizer for Plants
Hello! I'm 15 years old and I'm taking care of 4 plants, a Coleus, Elephant Bush, Aeonium lindley, and Zebra Haworthia. People had been saying to feed my plants with fertilizer. The issue is that I don't want to spend much money, and I don't want to ask my parents to drive me to Lowe's to buy a box/bag of fertilizer. My question, is there any someone that knows a good homemade fertilizer to feed my plants. Thank you for your time and help. #plants fertilizer">#fertilizer #coleus #elephantbush #aeomiumlindley #zebrahaworthia #help #moneyproblem
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@DollRubyball88 yes, you can sprinkle used coffee/tea grinds, in the soil, add crushed dried egg shells to soil, make banana water with banana peels or make compost from vegetable scraps. I personally don’t use fertilizer. I use miracle grow plant food but I also use egg shells and coffee grinds in some plants.
All store bought potting soil already has fertilizer added. It lasts for a year or two before it's flushed out by all the waterings. Succulents in particular really don't need any fertilizer. They're desert plants that grow in sand and rocks, which don't have nutrients like regular topsoil "dirt" has (specifically nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium). Your coleus might be another matter, but I'm not experienced enough with them to advise on fertilizer. But for your other three plants, you don't need to add anything, homemade or store bought. And definitely DON'T add coffee grounds to your succulents! Among other things, the nitrogen can kill them.
As for eggshells and banana water, despite being hyped up on social media, there's no scientific proof they actually offer much in the way of nutrients. Eggshells are supposed to be for calcium, but they have to be ground up into a super fine powder first, and even then they take a very LONG time to actually break down in the soil. Banana water is supposed to be for potassium, but even if you soaked a ton of banana peels in water for days, the banana water you'd end up with would only have trace amounts of potassium.
As for eggshells and banana water, despite being hyped up on social media, there's no scientific proof they actually offer much in the way of nutrients. Eggshells are supposed to be for calcium, but they have to be ground up into a super fine powder first, and even then they take a very LONG time to actually break down in the soil. Banana water is supposed to be for potassium, but even if you soaked a ton of banana peels in water for days, the banana water you'd end up with would only have trace amounts of potassium.
@DollRubyball88 Hello! So happy to meet the acquaintance of a young plant parent! Keep it up! We need ur generation to fix what mine did to this amazing world 😔 My mother has been asking me to try rice water on my plants! She evidently has watched a million videos on you tube about it and from what they say, just boil rice and then use the water on the plants (after it has cooled of course 😂) she is going to make me add it to a few plants this weekend, if it kills them I will let you know! 😂 JK! It really is supposed to great for them! 🪴🌿🌺🌸
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Yup!
Kristopher gave a great answer!
His advice is the way to go.
Short, sweet, simple!
Yup!
Kristopher gave a great answer!
His advice is the way to go.
Short, sweet, simple!