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Fattening up the potassium hogs

Frond-friend42

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Someone in the fertilizer thread said copernicias are real potassium hogs. These are my recently sprouted macroglossas. They are in some kind of palm/cactus mix. I know they grow slow but I read somewhere they respond well to fertilizer.

How soon can I start giving the the tasty slop? I want to fatten these bad boys up. And is there some particular mix different from other palms (like high potassium something?)

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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1 hour ago, Frond-friend42 said:

Someone in the fertilizer thread said copernicias are real potassium hogs. These are my recently sprouted macroglossas. They are in some kind of palm/cactus mix. I know they grow slow but I read somewhere they respond well to fertilizer.

How soon can I start giving the the tasty slop? I want to fatten these bad boys up. And is there some particular mix different from other palms (like high potassium something?)

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Feed them hawgs!

For what it’s worth don’t go hawg wild if you pardon the expression.

They’re slow at least for me.

That said, waiting for learned disagreement slop at the ready 

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Using too much potassium can kill plants.  I'd get a little "sulpomag" and use a level teaspoon per plant every 3 months.  As they get larger and you upgrade containers watch for potassium deficiency.  I have fed my little macroglossas this way, seems to work.  Speed of growth will depend on root development and that you will have to wait for.  

Formerly in Gilbert AZ, zone 9a/9b. Now in Palmetto, Florida Zone 9b/10a??

 

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