Store shelves are filled with a variety of compositions: fertilizers, feedings, and stimulators. In reality, there are simple and inexpensive means that are accessible to everyone, thanks to which your houseplants will be healthy and beautiful. Try 5 simple recipes for feeding houseplants that you can make yourself.
From spring to autumn, houseplants need nutrients. You can feed them with store-bought fertilizers, but many gardeners prefer natural products. You can prepare useful and effective folk remedies for feeding potted houseplants from these products.
Castor Oil
Castor oil is indispensable for feeding flowering houseplants:
Take a teaspoon of oil and mix it thoroughly in a liter of watering water.
Water the flowers with this mixture when you see that buds have started to form on them.
Catch the moment right at the beginning of budding, and the flowers will bloom very abundantly.
You can also wipe the leaves of the plants with a cotton pad soaked in the castor oil suspension.
It is important to remember that castor oil is an oil, and oil does not dissolve in water but mixes with it in the form of a suspension (small droplets of oil in water).
Therefore, the mixture should be used immediately after preparation and shaken very well to make the oil droplets as small as possible.
If the suspension sits for a while, the oil will gather back into a "puddle," and to use the mixture, it needs to be shaken again.
Wood Ash
Ash nourishes houseplants and helps prevent many diseases:
Take a tablespoon of ash, pour it with one liter of hot water, and forget about the solution for a week.
After a week, stir and use it for watering.
You can water with ash every 2 weeks.
Ash is suitable for all plants except those that require acidic soil: azalea, gardenia, anthurium, and several others.
Citrus and Pomegranate Peels
A great way to not throw away the peels of pomegranates and citrus fruits!
Cut the pomegranate or citrus peels into pieces about 1 cm.
Fill a liter jar one-third full and pour hot water to the top.
After a day, strain it and refill the jar with water to the top again.
Water the flowers with about 50 ml of the infusion for each flower.
This is excellent nutrition for the plants, and it can be applied once every 4-6 weeks.
This fertilizer is very much loved by spathiphyllum.
Banana Peels
Another way to live waste-free. Banana peels contain many nutrients, especially phosphorus and potassium, which are extremely important for root system development and bud formation.
Take the peels from three bananas, wash them thoroughly with water, and remove any white fibers if they remain.
Then cut the peels into pieces and dry them in the oven.
Place the dried peels in a liter jar and pour cold water over them (hot water can cause rotting, which we do not want).
Leave the jar in a cool place for 48 hours.
Strain and dilute the infusion with clean water 1 to 1.
Water no more than once a week; it is better not to overdo it. The infusion can be stored for no longer than 7 days.
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