Hi All

We are at the end of winter here ( some says we already in spring but I believe we will have spring from 23rd of September)

Days are warmer but it is not consistent and also nights are cool ( down to 6 c)

my question is,is it a good time to fertilize? or I'd better wait 2 more weeks ? My worry is I entourage the growth in my palms specially with organic fertilize i want to apply ( blood and bone and  chicken manure based )( ( most of my palms are  not established and very young) and then they get hurt by cold at nights? I think we will have constant warmer weather from the end of September...

Thanks for all your comments

Mohsen

It might still be a bit early, it can't hurt to wait a couple of weeks.

Thanks Steve

I think you are right, specially here we still have very cool if not cold nights!

Organic fertilizers are slow release. And with cold weather, they are slower.

I think this is a good time to use it, but be careful, only a litle bit and in November, a litle bit more.

After Winter your palms needs "food" to start the new grow.

I fertilise year round with organics and in the past week have just started fertilizing my property with chemical fertilizer. I have been using Nitrophoska special. So far have used 3 bags of the stuff !!

 

On 9/11/2017, 4:54:53, Mohsen said:

We are at the end of winter here ( some says we already in spring but I believe we will have spring from 23rd of September)

Days are warmer but it is not consistent and also nights are cool ( down to 6 c)

my question is,is it a good time to fertilize? or I'd better wait 2 more weeks ?

Funny thing is that I have been thinking about the timing for my last "boost", or fertilizer application as we near the beginning of Autumn, across the pond and on the other side of the equator.  It's great that Steve responded to you, due to his proximity to you and similar climate.  The answers to this questions are so climate and geographically specific.  Your nights are still pretty darn cold at 6C or about 43F.  Bottom line, I would stick with what others in your climate zone recommend. 

Our friends closer to the equator obviously never have to worry about things like this, with small changes in the temperatures from season to season, and usually rainfall being the biggest variant.  For me, I'm thinking one more application shortly after Autumn officially arrives.  Autumn is a good growth period in my climate, with frequent warm days and nights still relatively mild.  It seems that there is also a momentum factor involved as well coming out of vigorous later summer growth.  In my microclimate, late spring and early summers often don't heat up much during the day due to persistent marine layers, so growth is a little delayed relative to areas nearby, which heat up earlier.

Wishing  your garden good growth, as you enter prime season shortly!