Every florist knows that in order to blossom flowers on the windowsills of unparalleled beauty and green leaves, you should take good care of the plants. Top dressing plays an important role in this matter. If desired, you can get a quality fertilizer for indoor plants at home.
When should plants be fertilized?
Signs that the plant needs top dressing will be served by such signs:
- weak stems;
- slow growth;
- drooping leaves;
- a small number of buds.
How to make fertilizer at home?
Fertilizer is necessary, because, while in a close pot, the flower quickly sucks out all the useful substances from the earth. To make up for them, they often turn to folk remedies. The most common top-dressing at home is:
- Fertilizer from yeast for indoor plants is one of the most accessible ways to take care of a flower. Even the beginning gardener can cope with cooking. Purchased dry yeast is diluted with water in the proportion of 10 g of yeast per 10 liters of water. To strengthen the effect, 3 tablespoons of sugar are added to the solution, which also contributes to the restoration of plant health. Increase the content of such a useful substance as nitrogen, you can, if you add hops to the solution. Another option is to leave the solution for a couple of hours in a warm place. He will ferment and do not need the addition of nitrogen. It remains to dilute the resulting fertilizer with clean water in a ratio of 1: 5 and add to the soil.
- Banana as a fertilizer for indoor plants is used at least. It is rich in such useful elements as phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, calcium, nitrogen. Peel is suitable for controlling aphids. It can simply be buried in the ground, cut into small pieces. To bacteria have processed the skin, it will take 10 days. When the fertilizer is required to be dosed, the skins are roasted. She is laid on a baking sheet covered with foil. The tray is sent to the oven. After the peel is roasted, it is ground and transferred to hermetically sealed dishes. For a flower, one spoon is enough.
- Organic fertilizers for indoor plants - this is the remnants of black coffee, crusts of mandarins. They do not need to be cooked specially, just send the leftovers to the pot and water the ground.
- Home fertilizer for indoor plants is also made from onion . To prepare a solution of 5 g of husks fill 2 liters of boiling water. Stirring, boil for 10 minutes, then insist for three hours, then decant and water the flowers.
Use fertilizers should be in reasonable proportions. They can bring both benefit and harm, if you are carried away by feeding.