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first i cant imagine what you are growing that needs to be fed every two weeks.. they are plants.. not children ... with such.. you risk accumulation of fert salts in your media .. and that can be bad ...

second.. to me.. it wouldnt matter.. i use everything at half strength .. if not quarter .. mostly because they arent children that need to be fed .. so regardless of whatever it was .. at such light application.. it just wont matter ...

my plants get one juicing in spring.. as day length increases... meaning the growing season will be starting ... on once again in early fall.. to make it thru winter .. and thats it .. and i still cant beat most of them back with a stick ...

if you have the option .. the best thing for them.. is to put them outside for summer.. in full shade.. and let them convert better light into energy ... no sun on them ...

good luck.. just thin it down.. and you should be all set.. and frankly.. if it makes you happy to feed them so often ... well ignore what i said.. and make yourself happy .. the plant wont care either way ....

ken

I fertilize my plants with every watering. They are my children! Granted, I use a weaker formula, but the only time my plants do not get fertilizer is when they get rain or snow water.

I was thinking the "BR%" might indicate bromeliad. It looks like they do not make a bromeliad formula but there is an orchid formula. You might be able to email the Miracle Gro company and ask for an ID. I did notice that their Orchid food has mix instructions like what yours does. 1/4tsp for indoor, 1 tbsp for outdoor.

https://www.miraclegro.com/en-us/products/plant-food/miracle-gro-water-soluble-orchid-food

Hi, Julie. The % of N,P, and K in the product determines the fertilizer's ratio, and the ratio is very important. MG makes a ton of soluble fertilizers and only a few are appropriate for plants in containers, so it's not worth taking a chance. Plus, it has absorbed a lot of water and the fertilizer is dissolving, which would alter the solution strength, even if you had directions.

Ask if you'd like a recommendation and the reasoning behind it.

Al

@ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5 Thanks for the reply. I'm not fertilizing this often or using this dilution rate, that is just what the package says.

@tapl Yeah, I'm not going to chance it since I can't identify it. It may be orchid, which I have a new bag of anyway. And sure, I'd love a recommendation for indoor container plants.

@popmama It very well may be orchid. I was hoping it was general purpose but none of the general purpose ones seem to have that dilution rate. I'm just going to buy a new bag next time I get to the local garden center. Thanks for the help!

If you live in the US, you have good online access to a Dyna-Gro product called Foliage-Pro 9-3-6. The ratio (3:1:2) of it's NPK %s almost exactly matches the ratio at which the average plant uses those nutrients, and all other nutrients are also provided in an appropriate ratio. It's one of the few fertilizer products that includes all nutrients essential to normal growth. It also gets 2/3 of its nitrogen from nitrate sources and none from urea. The fertilizer you originally inquired about does not contain calcium or magnesium and might not contain several micronutrients, depending on how old it is. It also derives all it's nitrogen from urea, which tends to produce coarse foliage (large leaves and long internodes). Nitrogen from nitrate sources tends to keep leaves smaller and internodes shorter, which results in a fuller and more compact plant.

As far as I know, and I try to stay current on stuff like this, there is no other commercially produced product out there which would serve better as your go-to product for containerized plants.

Best luck!

Al

I endorse Al's recommendation 100%!! Dyna Gro Foliage Pro is the only fertilizer I use on my houseplants - all my houseplants, including orchids - and most of my permanent outdoor containers (I use Osmocote for my containerized woody plants at the beginning of the season and supplement with the FP occasionally).

I'll third FoliagePro. I did a ton of research but basically ended up reading Tapla's information about FoliagePro and have been using it ever since. Occasionally I experiment with other snake oils, but each time I have returned to FP. And yes, I fertilize with each watering because my brain isn't good enough to remember when I did or did not fertilize. So it's just easier for me.

One more thing, I really don't like to waste stuff like you have. So I would mix at the outdoor recipe and use it on my outdoor container plants like petunias, etc. But that's just me.

"I fertilize with each watering because my brain isn't good enough to remember when I did or did not fertilize. So it's just easier for me." In case you'd prefer not to fertilize at every watering, all you need is a bag of marbles, a handfull of buttons or bottlecaps, etc., to keep track of what gets fertilized when.

The main reason we fertilize is because intentionally flushing the grow medium when we water washes nutrients out of the medium, the price we pay for the habit of flushing which ensures the o/a level of fertilizer salts in the grow medium doesn't gradually creep upward to dangerous levels, and, so the ratio of nutrients in the soil solution doesn't become seriously skewed from the ratio at which the plants actually use those nutrients. For the reason I just cited, it makes more sense to tie the frequency of fertilizer applications to the number of times we water. Example: If plant A gets watered twice per month and plant B gets watered 6 times per month, they obviously won't actually need fertilizing at the same intervals. fertilizing every 3rd watering when plants are robust and every 4th watering when they are just chillin' and waiting for a reason to push is about right. So, drop a marble, button, other item of choice in the pot when you water. When you're about to drop the 3rd item in the pot, you know it's time to fertilize; so, instead of dropping the 3rd item into the pot, fertilize and pick up the 2 items already in the pot and start the cycle over.

Al

@tapla Thank you for the detailed response! I've seen other recommendations for this particular fertilizer. I was looking for one with micronutrients, so this is great. I will add that to my list. And I love the idea about the marbles!

Ya beat me to it Popmama! I was going to say buttons because I've lost all my marbles already! You got there first! We think alike....

Buttons would be even easier for me! I have jars and jars full of them.

Do you collect them? I would imagine buttons are becoming more difficult to find if you do. Especially the older variety.

Bill, yes, as a matter of fact I do collect them. More like 'hoard' them. But I have tried to quit buying them if I see big bags of them at garage sales or thrift stores because I already have a lot of them and sometimes one just has to quit!

When my aunt lived with me, she had this interesting sort of quirk that mixed button jars bothered her. So I sorted a big jar and made one full jar of only white buttons and one with only black buttons just for her. :-)

I love it! Button ocd!

I've known a number of people who had had button collections. Lined up in Mason jars they look great.

Enjoy your hobby.