Hi, everyone,
For those of you who have experience with time-release Nutricote-type fertilizer, here’s a question. Today, I pulled out some stray weeds from some potted daylilies (in a soil-less potting medium), and lo & behold: some small, round pellets of fertilizer were attached to their roots.
Do these round pellets *entirely* dissolve and disappear once they’re spent? I didn’t examine them closely, so I don’t know whether they were just a shell, but I was surprised to see any remnants at all. Could it mean that they may still have some active fertilizer in them?
Although, I love the idea of time-release fertilizer, Molly D once warned us on DG that it’s possible to over-fertilize daylilies with time-release fertilizers, if the soil is cool and/or dry. I’m not sure how many days over 70 degrees during the growing season I actually have in my pots (they're fairly heavily mulched), so I’m a little concerned about over-feeding the potted daylilies.
Thanks, all! : )
Elizabete
