Top dressing for house flowers for fast flowering. Rules for feeding indoor flowers at home

Indoor plants always bring joy, peace and comfort to the home of any person. In order for the flowers to be healthy and beautiful, they must be looked after. The main component of care is timely and proper fertilizing with fertilizers. In response to these actions, flowers generously endow their owner with rapid growth and abundant flowering. Since the nutritional area of ​​\u200b\u200bhouseplants is limited to the outside of the pot, they need fertilizer like no other. Without them, flowers quickly deplete the soil and take away all the nutrients from the soil, as a result, nothing remains for further good growth. To date, there is a huge variety of fertilizers for indoor plants, each of which has a certain benefit for flowers.

When to feed houseplants

Indoor plants are fed only during active vegetation, when both underground and above-ground parts grow and develop in them. It is during this period that fertilizers need to be applied. Such a rule does not mean at all that proper feeding is carried out only in spring and summer: there are also plants that not only do not have a complete dormant period and develop all year round, but also stars that bloom in autumn and winter. It is necessary to choose the period when you need to feed each plant according to its vegetation and its characteristics.

In spring and summer, all plants need top dressing. The period of active development in crops, even growing indoors, begins with an increase in daylight hours and light intensity. Usually the beginning of the growing season falls in March, and if the weather is favorable, it starts already at the end of February. And along with this, the period of active top dressing begins. Active vegetation ends in autumn, with a corresponding reduction in daylight hours and overall light intensity. The seasonal reduction in light usually appears as early as October, so the traditional feeding period is usually completed during September.

It is not so easy to figure out top dressing in autumn and winter:

If the plant goes into a complete dormant period and completely stops growing, top dressing in autumn and winter is not carried out at all. Usually, lignified and large plants, flowering crops that shed their leaves or the entire above-ground part of the plant need to stop top dressing.

Reduction of daylight hours, growth retardation, cool wintering, partial dormancy require a reduction and reduction in top dressing for the autumn-winter period. For example, for many ornamental foliage plants, although rare, but maintaining stable conditions, winter top dressing is necessary to preserve the beauty of the leaves.

If the plant blooms in the cold season or in autumn, then fertilizers continue to be applied for it.

At the same time, fertilizing for indoor plants in the period from October to February is possible only if the plant receives a comfortable level of illumination and does not suffer from a lack of light. For crops that do not need to be fed during this period, fertilizing can lead to root burns and excessive accumulation of non-absorbable nutrients. Even crops that develop in the winter and beyond, due to seasonal patterns and reduced light, will still reduce their nutrient requirements, and without adjusting top dressing, they will also suffer from excess fertilizer.

Types of indoor flower fertilizers

All fertilizers are conditionally divided into two large groups: mineral and organic. Organic fertilizers are of vegetable or animal origin. These can be waste products of living beings: livestock manure, bird droppings, aquarium water. Plant nutrients include silt from the bottom of reservoirs, compost, peat, and some types of food waste.

Mineral fertilizers appear as the results of the mining industry, processing of raw materials, industrial waste. Most often, a mineral looks like a substance containing large accumulations of one element. For complex feeding, a mixture of elements is prepared that satisfies all the needs of plants. The main mineral elements important for the development of indoor plants are nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus.

Separately, a group of humic fertilizers can be distinguished. Humus as an independent preparation is ineffective for flowers, but in combination with one of the minerals, it is a high-quality top dressing. Potassium humate is especially useful for indoor flowers.

According to the chemical composition, fertilizers are divided into:

• alkaline (saltpeter, lime);
• acidic (ammonium salts and sulfates, potassium salts);
• neutral (organic and superphosphate).

Release form:

• liquid;
• granulated;
• in the form of plates (tablets).

At home, liquid mineral or complex fertilizers for indoor plants and flowers are most effective. It is convenient to use granular fertilizers as the main top dressing applied when transplanting directly into the ground in the spring. They give nutrients gradually, without oversaturation and burns of the root system.

Top dressing of indoor flowers with onion peel

At home, the onion will successfully cope with healing, protection by feeding flowering and deciduous plants, except for succulents and plants with fleshy leaves, including aloe, cacti, fat women and ficuses.

We will need to prepare a decoction.

We put a good handful of husks in a saucepan, pour two liters of hot water into it and cook for 5 minutes over low heat.

After the broth has stood with us for a couple of hours, it should be filtered and used for spraying or watering flowers.

This decoction is not stored for a long time, so pour out the leftovers immediately. And the procedure can be repeated in a month.

Top dressing of indoor flowers with succinic acid

It can be purchased at any pharmacy; it is a biologically active food supplement obtained by chemical-thermal processing of amber. It is used as a prophylactic to enhance the growth of seedlings, improve seed germination and root cuttings before planting.

The solution is prepared by hand at the rate of 1 tablet of succinic acid (1 g when used in powder form) per 1 liter of water. The composition can be sprayed on the stem, shoots or applied under the root. Exotic indoor plants react best to this remedy - citrus fruits, chlorophytum, haworthia and arrowroot. You can use the composition to work with cacti.

Top dressing of indoor flowers with aquarium water

In the water where aquarium fish live, over time, a harmonious biological balance is established, thanks to which the life of aquatic inhabitants is also maintained. It is largely due to the presence of beneficial bacteria.

When using it for watering plants, the quality of the soil improves, and the process of processing complex compounds is accelerated in it. Such top dressing should be used only in the vegetative phase no more than 1 time per month, so that the plants grow well and quickly.

Top dressing of indoor flowers with banana peel

A lot is known about the benefits of a banana for the human body, but few flower growers know about its beneficial effect on indoor flowers. Both the fruit itself and its peel contain a large amount of vitamins and macronutrients, among which phosphorus, magnesium and potassium are especially useful for green pets. Straw, bone meal, fish meal, milk whey, potato peelings are also used as organic fertilizer. Houseplants always respond positively to such top dressing, which can be done in several ways.

Option 1. Banana peel is poured with 250 ml of water and left to infuse until foam forms. The finished product is applied twice a month, replacing the standard watering.

Option 2. Banana waste is dried and crumbled with a coffee grinder, and the resulting flour is simply mixed with the soil when transplanting flowers or immediately after it. In the latter case, you can simply sprinkle the powder over the surface of the substrate.

Feeding indoor flowers with coffee grounds

This natural fertilizer is widely used by many flower growers. Drinking coffee makes the nutrient substrate looser and lighter, increases acidity and the amount of oxygen. Features: increasing the acidity of the soil does not positively affect all indoor plants. Top dressing with sleeping coffee is recommended for azaleas, hydrangeas, lilies, ripsalis, roses and many evergreen species.

Application: Mix coffee grounds with soil mixture in a pot.

The most famous and effective home fertilizers for feeding indoor plants are considered. We will be glad if it becomes easier for you to feed indoor flowers, and they will respond with their beautiful appearance.

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Have you already tidied up your green pets - indoor plants?)

Spring is the best time for this, and although at other times of the year house plants also need our attention, in spring, awakened by the gentle rays of the sun, they emerge from their winter dormancy, and our task is to provide them with the strength for development and active growth.

Caring for indoor plants at home

First you need to visually check how beautiful and healthy the plants look, which of them should be transplanted, and which just need to remove dry, weak and depleted shoots and leaves. Too long, “fatting” ones that look disproportionately large, but obviously not benefiting the plant, are also subject to removal, they draw attention to themselves with their unattractiveness.

Please note that for some already flowering or about to bloom plants, such pruning will not benefit. Their flowers appear only on fully matured shoots that formed last year. And if such shoots are removed, then new branches will appear instead of buds, and you can not wait for flowering, at best it will not be soon.

These plants include:

• royal pelargonium;
• hibiscus;
• some varieties of roses;
• oleander.

It is better to postpone pruning of the above plants until the end of summer.

Shower for indoor flowers

Those plants that you decide not to transplant, after removing unnecessary shoots, should be bathed in order to thoroughly remove the dust accumulated on them.

We close the earth in a pot with a plastic bag, put the flower in the bath and generously water it from the shower, after adjusting the water to the “summer” temperature (making it a little warm).

Who can't shower

• flowering plants;
• plants with pubescent leaves: saintpaulia (violets), gloxinia, kolerii, begonias, coleus, sparmania, etc.

If you still don’t know how to remove dust, for example, from violet leaves, I’ll tell you that you can clean such “fluffies” from dust with a soft brush, cosmetic or for drawing, carefully walking it over the leaves. The fact that violet, along with other home flowers, is considered the most useful plant can be read in the article.

Transplanting indoor plants

About that, I already wrote in one of the articles, and in order not to repeat myself and not to make this article huge, I will only write that before transplanting, you need to make sure that the plant really needs it. You can focus on the following signs:

• the plant is clearly cramped in its “house”, in these cases the roots often become visible, peeking out of the drainage hole at the bottom of the pot;
• you have not transplanted this flower in the last 3-5 years;
• the pet is "frozen" in place and does not add in growth.

In these cases, the plants need a complete replacement of the earth mixture. Make an exception for already flowering plants, they should not be transplanted until the end of flowering.

How to feed house flowers at home

A very important point is feeding. In a flower pot, the amount of soil is very limited and home flowers need much more outside nutrition than the same garden ones.

Already 1.5-2 months after transplantation, the plant depletes the soil in which it grows and the “survival time” begins for it. Therefore, the flower needs to be helped by dressings that provide good nutrition, strengthen immunity and resist infections.

In general, indoor plants need the following 16 macro-, microelements for a “happy life” (for convenience, I will write signs that indicate a lack of one or another element):

The supply of three of these essential elements, oxygen, hydrogen and carbon, is not to be taken care of, the plants themselves extract them from the air.

The rest are in sufficient quantities in fresh soil.

Three of them - nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, are quickly and easily washed out during watering, so after two weeks they show the plants to be fed. For these purposes, you can use "narrowly targeted" fertilizers.

• Nitrogen: these are sodium nitrate, calcium nitrate, ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride.
• Potassium: potassium salt.
• Phosphoric: superphosphate.

When feeding with these three elements, it is desirable to take into account what phase of development the home plant is in:

• nitrogen is added during the period of leaf growth.
• during the formation of fruits, bulbs and tubers, potassium is added.
• During budding, the flower, more than any other mineral, needs phosphorus.

For flowers that do not have any specific problems, and which you are going to feed for prevention, complex mineral fertilizers are suitable, which contain all 13 necessary elements. We begin to use them no earlier than one and a half to two months after transplantation.

Examples of good complex fertilizers: "Agricola", "Pokon", "Force of Life", "Garden of Miracles".

I will highlight the answer to the most frequently asked question as a separate item: how to feed indoor flowers so that they bloom.

Phosphorus and potassium are the most important for flowering.

As for feeding indoor flowers with home remedies, here, of course, everyone decides for himself, although most experts speak of home remedies as not very effective compared to those sold in stores.

Fertilizer for indoor plants at home can be done on the basis of:

• sleeping tea and coffee;
• Sahara;
• eggshell;
• infusion on citrus peels;
• infusion on meat;
• or onion skins.

But we must remember that in some cases, top dressing with such fertilizers can be harmful. If sleeping coffee and tea are not top dressing, but soil baking powder, in which the plants, although they will not receive nutrition, will not be harmed, then the uncontrolled introduction of egg shells can bring excess calcium into the soil, which can cause chlorosis, for example, azalea and hydragenia.

By the way, if you are going to fertilize the plants with sleeping tea leaves, then note that it must be mixed with the soil, because if you just pour the tea leaves on the top layer of the earth, black sciarid flies can start in it.

I'm not talking about watering with water infused with raw meat. Based on the experience of my employee, I will definitely say - it's not worth it. On the advice of a friend, she watered her indoor flowers in this way, of which she had a lot and which, in the end, were ruined, because fly larvae bred in the ground. Perhaps I can do without details ... in the story it sounded terrible)

But fertilizer with compost, humus, bird droppings or mullein is an ideal option, but not every housewife will agree to fertilize plants in an apartment with slurry)) I read that manure-based fertilizers are now being produced in special plates.

But I still used one of the homemade recipes and can advise you.

Add well-dried and then chopped banana peel to the flower soil (I crushed it in a mortar, you can grind it in a coffee grinder). It rots quickly, giving the soil potassium, which has a good effect on both flowering and the growth of greenery by the plant.

If you prefer to feed with home remedies over store-bought ones, watch this rather informative video:

How to fertilize indoor plants at home

In general, you can start feeding from mid-March, or focusing on the "behavior" of the plant - it should move to growth.

Overfeeding houseplants is no less dangerous than underfeeding, so feed no more than once every two weeks.

It is better to fertilize plants more often, only make the solution a little weaker than indicated in the instructions.

The soil must be moist before fertilizing. Liquid fertilizers must be applied only after watering.

You can not feed green pets:

• during the dormant period (in winter);
• within two weeks after transplantation;
• diseased and weak plants.

Fertilizers can be dry and liquid. Dry are made in the form of powder, tablets, granules or sticks.

Sticks are long-acting fertilizers, and only they are placed in a pot when transplanting.

There is another way to feed plants - foliar top dressing.

Foliar feeding of indoor plants, the rules for its implementation

With foliar (foliar) fertilization, the fertilizer is sprayed over the leaves and stem with a spray bottle, while the plants receive and absorb nutrients faster.

For spraying, special formulations are used or universal fertilizers are diluted in a weaker concentration than indicated in the instructions.

Foliar top dressing should be done in the morning or in the evening or in cloudy weather, microelements are better absorbed in the cool, plants dry out quickly in the heat and the effect of top dressing is reduced. The next day, it is recommended to spray the flower with clean water.

Which pets are best suited for this method

Most often, this method is used for a diseased flower, since its weakened roots may not be able to cope with the load when watering fertilizers and burn out.

Also, the method helps well with chlorosis leaf disease, trace elements are delivered immediately to their destination.

There is a type of plant for which this method of fertilization is vital - these are epiphyte plants equipped with aerial roots: anthuriums, phalaenopsis, dendrobiums, etc.

When this method is prohibited or ineffective

For larger plants that require the same amount of fertilization, foliar fertilization is not the best option in this case.

Pets with an edge on the leaves, the same violets and geraniums, water leaves ugly traces on them, so they should not be subjected to such top dressing.

Examples of good foliar fertilizers: Epin, Zircon, Dr. Foley.

Joy to you from your green favorites 🙂

Surely, many will agree with the opinion that flowers are one of the most wonderful creations of nature. From ancient times, flowers grew only on the street, but gradually people learned to grow flowers at home so that they could delight us with their beauty all year round. Even when there is snow, snowstorm and frost outside the window, a picturesque flower can stand on the windowsill and remind us of summer. However, strong, healthy, bright-blooming flowers and other indoor plants cannot be obtained without the use of fertilizers. It is best when the flower food is natural. In this article, we will talk about how best to fertilize plants, when it is best to do it and how.

When do plants need to be fed?

Houseplants need to be fertilized much more often than you think. This is due to the fact that the area of ​​​​nutrition of indoor plants and flowers is limited, even the largest pot cannot provide the flower with the nutrients that it would receive from the soil in the open field. You can get out of this situation by trying to transplant plants into a new kidney from time to time. But after two months after transplanting into a new soil, the plant again begins to show signs of malnutrition. Thus, according to the characteristics of indoor plants, it is possible to determine the time when top dressing will give the best result.

Replenishment signals:

• Slowdown in growth.
• The color of the leaves becomes paler, the leaves themselves decrease in size, they fall off.
• It stops blooming, the flower falls off without even opening.
• The appearance of yellow leaves, the appearance of spots on the leaves and other unpleasant moments.

What natural fertilizers can be used?

For home flowers, it is best to use natural fertilizers, treat plants with folk remedies. Let's look at what products can be used as plant nutrition.

1. Cane or beet sugar. The most common natural fertilizer among home plant lovers is ordinary sugar, both cane and beet. Glucose, which breaks down in the formation of sugar, is the energy source of numerous processes within plants. Another function of glucose: construction. However, glucose does an excellent job with one condition: carbon dioxide.

In order for sugar bait to give good results, use the following recipe: dissolve one tablespoon in half a liter of water and pour the solution over the plant. This solution should be used at least once a month.

2. Coffee bait. Another great way to supplement the nutrition of home flowers is drunk coffee. The positive quality of this fertilizer is also the fact that it is not difficult to prepare it: you just need to drink coffee. However, pay attention to the fact that not all of the domestic plants tolerate coffee and the acidity of the soil increased by it. Instead of coffee, you can also use tea leaves.

When using tea leaves as a fertilizer, remember that black flies love tea leaves.

3. Citrus top dressing. The peel of many tropical plants, such as tangerines, oranges, and bananas, can be used as an excellent groundbait for houseplants. Before using the peel, it must be prepared. Preparation is as follows: grind the peel of citrus fruits, then fill a liter jar with one third of the crushed citrus peel, and then pour boiling water over it. The resulting mixture should be infused for a day. After that, we take out the zest, add water to the jar to make one liter, and then water our flowers.

4. Natural ash. At first glance, it may seem that ash is unlikely to help solve problems with plant diseases. However, the first glance is wrong. The ash contains a lot of phosphorus, iron, zinc and potassium, which plants need so much. For indoor flowers, ash is used as follows: mix the ash with the ground during plant transplantation. You can also use liquid ash: one tbsp. ash is dissolved in one liter of water at room temperature. Water the flowers with this solution once a week.

5. Yeast top dressing. Probably, few people realize that yeast is an excellent tool for accelerating plant growth. Yeast owes its action to the elements contained in their composition. Conducted scientific studies have shown that under the action of yeast, the activity of microorganisms in the soil increases, the level of carbon dioxide produced increases.

The recipe for preparing top dressing from yeast is as follows: mix ten gr. yeast and one tablespoon of cane sugar. Dissolve the resulting mixture in a liter of water at room temperature. We defend the solution for two hours, and then again dilute the solution with water in a ratio of one to five. After that, we already water the ground around the house flowers.

6. Onion dressing. A product without which any dish of our cuisine seems inconceivable, onion, can be used not only in cooking, but also in gardening. Onion top dressing is prepared from onion peel, it has a positive effect on the growth of flowers. Very quickly, good results can be achieved using the following recipe: pour fifty grams of onion peel with two liters of boiling water. Mix thoroughly and bring the broth to a boil again, then boil for another ten minutes. Then the solution is infused for three hours. Next, you need to strain the broth and water the plants with it.

7. Vegetable broth. To date, the use of vegetable broth for the treatment of home flowers has not yet been sufficiently studied. But numerous reviews indicate that this is a fairly effective method.

8. Aquarium water. If you do not want to spend money on expensive artificial approval, and you have an aquarium, then the water from it can be used as an excellent fertilizer. The water from the aquarium contains substances in large quantities that accelerate the growth rate of house flowers. It is best to use this top dressing in summer and autumn, when the plants need additional nutrition, but in the summer it is best to refuse aquarium water.

9. Succinic acid. What is succinic acid? This is a special substance obtained during the processing of natural amber. This substance has a bunch of useful properties that make it popular among indoor flower fertilizers. Use the following recipe to prepare succinic acid bait: take one gram of acid and dilute it in five liters of water at room temperature. The resulting solution can not only water the soil around the plants, but also sprinkle their leaves.

Acid is a potent agent, so it should be used rarely, a maximum of once a year.

In conclusion, I would like to say that no matter what fertilizer you choose for home flowers, remember that you do not need to introduce it in the first two months after transplanting indoor flowers into new soil. Also, before you start fertilizing home flowers, carefully water the soil, this will protect you from the death of plants if the concentration of the resulting top dressing is too high. Follow the advice above and your flowers will always make you happy.

See the best houseplant fertilizers at home. Recipes for more than 20 natural folk remedies are presented: yeast, sugar, banana peel, succinic acid, wood ash, eggshell and citrus peel.

As well as other homemade natural fertilizers, along with medical and kitchen secrets.

Home fertilizers for indoor plants: popular top dressings

To feed indoor plants with natural fertilizers at home, various products and substances are successfully used.

The most popular household fertilizers are banana peels, sugar, yeast, succinic acid, wood ash, and eggshells.

Top dressing of indoor flowers with a certain substance or product has its own characteristics and application rules.

The effectiveness of home fertilizers and folk remedies also varies significantly and generates debate.

Reviews of flower growers and the arguments of experts can be radically different.

Therefore, the use of folk remedies or home fertilizers as a top dressing for indoor plants is a purely individual matter.

1. Fertilizing indoor plants with yeast

Yeast is a popular household fertilizer for houseplants and flowers. They contain hormones, including cytokinins that regulate cell division, as well as auxins, thiamine, and B vitamins.

• Due to this, yeast contributes to the active growth of domestic plants and their full development.

Fertilizing houseplants with yeast has been repeatedly studied by scientists. It is scientifically confirmed that yeast accelerates the mineralization of organic matter, produces nitrogen and phosphorus, and also increases the activity of microorganisms in the soil mixture.

Thus, fertilizing houseplants with yeast at home is close to fertilizing with mineral fertilizer.

RECIPE FEEDING INDOOR PLANTS WITH YEAST:

1. 10 gr dry yeast (bag) and 3 tbsp. l. sugar stir in 10 liters of warm water. For a smaller volume: 1 g dry yeast + 1 tsp. sugar per liter of water.
2. The resulting solution is infused for 2-3 hours.
3. Before fertilizing home plants with yeast, the infusion is mixed with water in a ratio of 1 to 5, and then indoor flowers are watered.

LIVE YEAST:

1. Dilute 200 grams of yeast in 1 liter of water.
2. Before use, mix the solution with water in a ratio of 1 to 10.

FEEDING INDOOR FLOWERS WITH YEAST REVIEWS:

For maximum effect, feeding houseplants with yeast must be supplemented with calcium and potassium - eggshell powder and wood ash.

1% YEAST EXTRACT:

1. Dissolve 10 g of live yeast in one liter of water.
2. Feed the plant once a year in the spring.

REVIEWS: some experts believe that top dressing with 1% yeast infusion is equivalent to top dressing with a seasonal dose of complex fertilizer for indoor flowers.

2. Wood ash - as a fertilizer for indoor plants

Wood ash is a very effective household fertilizer for indoor plants. It contains many nutrients: phosphorus, iron, sulfur, magnesium, potassium, zinc and calcium.

In wood ash, phosphorus and potassium are readily available to plants.

The editors of the magazine "Feast of Flowers" believes that feeding indoor flowers with wood ash is a very powerful and safe folk remedy. Wood ash is considered to be the best organic fertilizer for indoor plants.

APPLICATION - LIQUID FEED:

1. 3 art. l. ash (about 25 g) dilute in 1 liter of water.
2. Infuse the solution for a week, and then water the houseplants once every 10-14 days.

DRY: 1. Wood ash is mixed with the soil mixture before planting in a ratio of 1 to 50.

IMPORTANT! In addition to top dressing, wood ash also disinfects the substrate. Ash is very fond of begonia, geranium, fuchsia, cyclamen and other indoor plants.

3. Feeding houseplants with sugar

For feeding indoor plants, sugar is used as a source of glucose, which provides energy for various processes in the plant.

And as an excellent building material to stimulate the formation of organic molecules. Glucose to be an excellent building material must be well absorbed by the plant.

This is possible only if there is a sufficient concentration of carbon dioxide. Otherwise, the sugar will feed root rot or mold.

Therefore, to avoid such an effect, the feeding of indoor flowers with sugar should be supplemented with a preparation with effective microorganisms ("EM") ("Baikal EM-1" or "Vostok EM-1").

APPLICATION: feeding houseplants with sugar is made with a prepared solution - 1 tbsp. spoon for 1 liter of water.

Some growers sprinkle the soil mixture with sugar on top and then water - 1 teaspoon for a pot up to 10 cm in diameter.

GLUCOSE: The maximum efficiency of feeding houseplants with sugar can be obtained by replacing it with glucose. In this case, the recipe is as follows: 1 tablet of glucose per 1 liter of water.

IMPORTANT! It is recommended to feed indoor flowers with sugar or glucose no more than once every 30 days.

4. Succinic acid for indoor flowers

Succinic acid is formed during the processing of natural amber and has useful properties. It helps to better absorb substances, strengthens the immunity of plants.

Succinic acid is not a fertilizer, but an auxiliary additive, which is often used for soaking seeds, rooting cuttings, as well as for spraying and watering.

Succinic acid for indoor plants use in tablets:

1. A solution for feeding indoor flowers is prepared at the rate of 1 tablet (0.25 g) or powder per 1 liter of warm water.
2. The resulting solution is sprayed on leaves, shoots or watered roots to quickly restore the plant.

REVIEWS: Aglaonema, arrowroot, ficus, crassula, begonia, prickly pear, oleander, chlorophytum, haworthia and citrus fruits are especially fond of top dressing with succinic acid.

Succinic acid tablets

IMPORTANT! Home flowers are recommended to be watered with succinic acid once a year, and for cacti and succulents (opuntia, haworthia) once every 2-3 years. An overabundance is not dangerous, but it will bring little benefit.

• To accelerate the growth of young shoots, you can spray the ground part of the plant every 3 weeks in spring and summer.
• The solution is suitable for top dressing for 3 days.

5. Eggshell fertilizer for houseplants

Eggshells are a popular and controversial natural houseplant fertilizer. It contains a lot of calcium, but in a hard-to-reach form and reduces the acidity level of the substrate.

In addition, calcium loves a small number of types of home flowers, and an excess of the substance contributes to the occurrence of chlorosis.

• Therefore, feeding with eggshell houseplants should be carried out carefully and start with small dosages.

APPLICATION:

1. Eggshells are crushed, mixed with the soil mixture during plant transplantation.
2. Make an infusion on eggshells and water.

INFUSION:

1. Dried and crushed egg shells are poured with warm water 1 to 5.
2. Insist 15-20 days, stirring every 3-4 days.
3. The resulting infusion is watered with home plants 1 time in 30-40 days.

DRAINAGE: eggshell can be good drainage. To do this, during transplantation, a 2-cm layer of crushed eggshell is poured onto the bottom of the pot.

FERTILIZER FROM EGG PROTEINS FOR HOUSE PLANTS:

1. Mix 1 egg white in 200 g of water.
2. The solution is placed in a dark and cool place (basement, cellar, but not a refrigerator (!).
3. After a week, the solution is diluted in 2 liters of water and watered indoor flowers.

• The smell is specific, but the plants actively respond to such top dressing.

6. Banana peel fertilizer for houseplants

Banana peel is a popular natural fertilizer for houseplants and flowers. It contains many nutrients, especially rich in potassium.

Top dressing from a banana peel for indoor flowers is made in various ways.

Here we will give the most popular and simple recipe, while others are described in a separate material.

1. Fresh banana peel, thoroughly washed with warm water and dried (battery, oven).
2. Dried banana skins are poured into a coffee grinder and crushed.
3. Banana peel powder is poured on top of the soil mixture and watered with water (1 time per month). It can also be mixed with soil during plant transplantation 1 to 10.

7. Fertilize with citrus fruits

The peel from lemons, tangerines and oranges is an excellent natural fertilizer for indoor plants and flowers, which will stimulate their growth and strengthen immunity.

Top dressing from citrus fruits at home perfectly repels many pests and reduces the likelihood of diseases in indoor flowers, and also introduces nitrogen into the soil.

APPLICATION - WINTER:

1. Grind the fresh zest from citrus fruits and fill a liter jar by 3/4, and then fill the entire jar with water.
2. The zest is infused for 24 hours, then the infusion is filtered and mixed with water 1 to 3.

SPRING AND SUMMER:

1. If you collect peels from citrus fruits in winter to feed indoor flowers in spring and summer, then put the dried peels in a liter jar by 80% and pour boiling water over it.
2. After the broth has cooled, it is diluted with water 1 to 5 and watered to feed the plant.

IMPORTANT! It is recommended to feed indoor flowers with citrus fertilizer at home in this mode: 1 time in 30 days - autumn / winter and 2 times in 30 days - spring / summer.

Natural folk remedies for feeding indoor plants:

8. Onions - the protector of indoor plants

Onion peel fertilizer occupies a worthy place in plant nutrition at home, as it contains many trace elements.

Feeding indoor plants with onion tincture is an excellent prevention against many diseases and pests due to phytoncides.

APPLICATION:

1. 25 g of onion peel (about a handful) is poured with a liter of hot water and boiled for 7-8 minutes under a lid and over low heat.
2. The broth is insisted for 3 hours, and after it has cooled, house plants and the top layer of the soil mixture are filtered and sprayed.
3. Top dressing with a decoction of onions is carried out approximately once every two months.

IMPORTANT! A feature of onion fertilizer is that it must be prepared before each feeding of home flowers.

Plants are fed by spraying, therefore, the maximum benefit will be for those species that do not have glossy or pubescent leaves.

9. Garlic

Garlic is a powerful prophylactic against fungal diseases in indoor plants.

APPLICATION:

1. 150-200 grams of garlic (cloves) are crushed and poured with one liter of water.
2. The mixture is tightly closed with a lid and infused for 4-5 days, and then filtered.
3. To feed indoor flowers, the infusion is diluted with water: 1 tbsp. spoon for 2 liters.

IMPORTANT! Garlic fertilizer is suitable for watering and spraying plants - 1 time in 10-14 days.

10. Aloe juice

Aloe juice is a well-known natural stimulant for rooting cuttings, while it can also be a fertilizer for indoor flowers. Feeding with aloe juice strengthens the plant's immunity.

APPLICATION:

1. From 3-4-year-old aloe, the lower leaves are cut off and put in a bag, and the bag in the refrigerator so that the juice becomes more “soft”.
2. The next day, the juice is squeezed out of aloe leaves and diluted with water - 1 teaspoon per 1.5 liters of water.
3. Feed home plants by watering or spraying no more than 1 time in 14 days.

2nd RECIPE FROM EXPERIENCED FLOWER FROM MOSCOW:

1. 6-7 branches of aloe are chopped (cut with a knife into small pieces), put in a 3-liter jar and poured with boiled warm water.
2. Insist week in a dark place.
3. 200 grams of infusion (glass) is diluted in 3 liters of water and indoor flowers are poured under the root with natural fertilizer.
   

11. Sleepy coffee

This natural fertilizer is widely used by many flower growers. Drinking coffee makes the nutrient substrate looser and lighter, increases acidity and the amount of oxygen.

PECULIARITIES: increasing the acidity of the soil does not positively affect all houseplants. Top dressing with sleeping coffee is recommended for azaleas, hydrangeas, lilies, ripsalis, roses and many evergreen species.

APPLICATION: Mix the coffee grounds with the soil mixture in the pot.

12. Tea brewing

Some flower growers feed home flowers by pouring tea leaves like mulch on top of the ground, but we do not recommend it, since sciarids (black flies) are easily bred in tea leaves.

APPLICATION: sleeping tea as a fertilizer can only be used in this version.

1. The tea leaves are dried, collected in a separate bag, and during the transplantation of indoor plants, they are mixed with the soil mixture in a ratio of 1: 3.
2. It is recommended to feed with tea only indoor flowers with a delicate root system - begonia, peperomia, violet and others.

REVIEWS: sleeping coffee and tea brewing, according to experts, it makes sense to use it exclusively as a drainage.

13. Aquarium water

Aquarium water has a neutral pH and contains many substances that stimulate the growth of indoor plants, and, therefore, is a fairly good natural fertilizer.

APPLICATION: aquarium water can be fed with home flowers only from March to June, and no more than once a month.

Top dressing of indoor flowers: kitchen and medical secrets!

14. WATER AFTER THAWING MEAT

The main danger is the risk of the appearance and development of unwanted microorganisms.

15. WATER AFTER WASHING GRAINS AND POTATO BUTTER

Some flower growers feed indoor flowers with water that remains after soaking legumes (peas, beans, lentils) or potato broth.

The bottom line is that starch enters the water, which feeds the plants with energy.

16. VEGETABLE DECOTIONS

fertilizing with decoctions of vegetables is popular with some flower growers, however, a scientifically proven positive effect on home plants has not been obtained.

Therefore, the editors of the Feast of Flowers magazine do not consider a decoction after vegetables to be a good fertilizer.

After June, it is not necessary to stimulate the active growth of green mass in most plant species. And top dressing more than once a month leads to excessive reproduction of algae and further landscaping and acidification of the soil mixture.

17. A decoction or infusion of dried mushrooms

A natural stimulant for soaking seeds before planting certainly won't hurt, but scientific results have not been found.

18. HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

1. 25 grams of 3% hydrogen peroxide is diluted in a liter of water.
2. The resulting solution can be sprayed or watered plants.

Feeding a weakened plant should be carried out several times until it looks better. Spraying indoor plants protects them from diseases.

19. YOD

Iodine is often used to protect against fungal diseases and powdery mildew, and it is also a good growth and flowering stimulator.

1. 1-2 drops (1 ml) per 1 liter of water.
2. Water along the edge of the pot so as not to burn the root system.

Feed every 7-10 days to restore a weak and fading plant.

• In other cases, it is enough to feed houseplants with iodine once in spring and summer.

20. MANGANESE

21. CASTOR OIL

Top dressing with castor oil has a very good effect on flowering plant species at the time of budding (budding) - 1 tsp. for 1 liter of water.

22. TOOTHPASTE

This top dressing is suitable for indoor plants that love alkaline soil.

1. 20 ml of toothpaste is dissolved in 1 liter of warm water and potted flowers are watered.

23. TOOTH POWDER

This recipe is good for root rot.

1. 2 tbsp. spoons of tooth powder, 2 tbsp. spoons of wood ash and 1 tbsp. a spoonful of copper sulfate is mixed in 100 grams of water.
2. Move the soil near the root of the plant and water it with the resulting solution.
3. We move the plant to a dry place

The most famous and effective home fertilizers for feeding indoor plants are considered. We will be glad if it becomes easier for you to feed indoor flowers, and they will respond with their beautiful appearance.

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Flower growers will be grateful, as will their pets!

Good afternoon friends!

What to do so that our favorite flowers on the windowsills are green, beautiful, and rampant in bloom all year round?

And the secret of a luxurious indoor flower garden is tritely simple: the plants need to be well fed. We eat three times a day, so flowers need a varied diet.

Moreover, for feeding indoor flowers, you can use home remedies that every housewife has, and it is not at all necessary to buy them in a store.

The most diverse composition of vitamins and microelements of top dressing can be found in our kitchen. Fertilizing indoor flowers with home remedies is no worse than store-bought fertilizers, and besides, they are completely natural. So do not rush to throw away onion peels, egg shells, peels from oranges and bananas, coffee grounds.

What means can be used and how to prepare them, my further story.

When and how to contributefertilizer for indoor flowers

First you need to understand the general rules of how and when to apply flower food.

When to feed plants

If your plant has stretched out, the stems have become thin, if growth has stopped or slowed down, the leaves have turned pale, light spots have appeared on them, the plant refuses to bloom, then most likely it does not have enough nutrition.

But you don’t need to bring flowers to such a terrible state, you need to feed them regularly.

Already in March, when the sun begins to look into the windows more and more often and the flowers start to grow, you should start feeding them once every two weeks. And continue to feed in this mode until October.

Top dressing is applied both during growth and during flowering.

From October to February, plants usually have a dormant period, they, like bears, hibernate and do not need additional nutrition. The exception is those that bloom in winter. Winter-flowering can occasionally be fed, but not more than once a month.

Although flower growers still do not recommend doing this during the dark season from November to December.

How to properly fertilize

Important! In no case should top dressing be applied to dry land, as this can damage the plant and burn its roots.

First, we water the flowers, and after they have quenched their thirst (the next day after watering), we feed them.

Top dressing for flowers is applied both in dry form and diluted in water.

Dry products are scattered on the surface of the earth, then the soil needs to be loosened and lightly watered.

Top dressing, diluted with water, water the plant around the entire bush, preferably closer to the edge of the pot. It is not necessary to fill in, fertilizers are required to be applied very little. Water must be used only previously settled, and not from the tap, at room temperature.

Sometimes top dressing is used in the form of spraying.

Fertilizing indoor flowers with yeast

Probably the most famous, popular and effective flower food is yeast. After all, they contain a lot of usefulness, including phytohormones, B vitamins that stimulate growth, and others.

Yeast top dressing is equated to full mineral fertilizer.

It favorably affects the root system, causes increased growth and flowering, and also improves the microflora of the earth. Your flowers will grow by leaps and bounds!

Recipe

If you have natural pressed yeast, take 10 grams of them, stir in one liter of warm water, add a tablespoon of sugar.

Dry yeast should be taken 1 gram per liter of water + 1 teaspoon of sugar.

We insist this mixture for 2-3 hours.

Before applying top dressing, it will still need to be diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 5 (1 glass of infusion to 5 glasses of water).

Top dressing with beer

In fact, the same yeast, only we are not talking about pasteurized beer from bottles, but about live beer, which is bottled in pubs.

If, after some gatherings, you still have a little of such a drink (although, this is unlikely, well, don’t be sorry, leave at least a little bit for your pets), you can also treat your plants.

When the beer hits the ground, it will continue to ferment there, releasing carbon dioxide, which will feed the plants.

200 grams of beer are taken per liter of water, mixed and poured with this solution once a week. You will see your plants come to life.

Coffee grounds for feeding flowers

There is a lot of nitrogen in coffee, and plants love it very much, especially after winter. And this home remedy makes the earth loose and soft.

After preparing and drinking a morning drink, we dry the remaining coffee grounds and collect them in a jar, in a few days a fairly decent mass will be collected, which is enough for all your flowers.

We distribute a couple of teaspoons of dry thick along the edges of the pot, loosen, water. Everything is simple!

Using tea leaves as flower food

Dry tea brewing, as in the previous recipe, is brought into the ground, this will be fertilizer for home flowers.

Or you can just water the plants with unfinished tea, even sweet. Ferns especially like to drink tea.

But do not overdo it and rarely use such top dressing, because black flies also love it.

Feeding houseplants with sugar

Feeding indoor flowers with sugar gives them energy, so almost all plants respect sweet water, and cacti most of all.

Dissolve one tablespoon of sugar in a liter of water and water the flowers.

Onion peel - a wonderful top dressing for indoor flowers

Onion peel is useful to us not only for coloring eggs, but also a wonderful flower food from it!

We will need to prepare a decoction.

We put a good handful of husks in a saucepan, pour two liters of hot water into it and cook for 5 minutes over low heat.

After the broth has stood with us for a couple of hours, it should be filtered and used for spraying or watering flowers.

This decoction is not stored for a long time, so pour out the leftovers immediately. And the procedure can be repeated in a month.

Egg shells as flower food

The egg shell is rich in calcium, which is also necessary for our pets.

Therefore, shells from peeled boiled eggs (you can also use raw ones) are also not thrown away, we collect, dry, grind in a mortar, pusher or in another convenient way. Preferably very finely, into crumbs and even dust.

Shredded shells can be used to feed plants in a dry form, sprinkling the surface of the earth and burying.

And you can insist them in water (a teaspoon of crushed shells per liter of water) and use for irrigation.

To prepare 1 drop of iodine, stir in a liter of water. Water very carefully along the edge of the pot so that the roots do not get burned. On one pot you can pour no more than 50 ml of the product.

Feeding indoor flowers with hydrogen peroxide

My favorite remedy is hydrogen peroxide. It not only saves me from the flu, but also helps the plants come to life right before my eyes.

Peroxide has an oxidizing effect, antiseptic properties, heals not only the leaves, but also the earth, protects against pests, and is a good disease prevention.

This tool is an ambulance for withering plants as well as.

1 tablespoon is diluted in a liter of water and the leaves of plants are sprayed once a week, but only for those who like spraying. Other flowers can be watered with this composition.

In detail, he will talk very interestingly about peroxide as a good top dressing for flowers in his video.

Let's sum up. As you can see, there are quite a few home remedies available that can be used as houseplant food. It is better to alternate them. We bought bananas, make top dressing from their peel, bake pies - set aside some yeast for your pets, and pour sweet water or sprinkle with peroxide - much easier.