Ack! Too late for this now, but if ever I need one of these plants to have more root-roaming room I set the container it's in into a bigger pot or set the nursery pot into the ground. That way the roots can travel through the holes when they need to, and I don't have to disturb them. I have some growing in my bog area in a bottomless pot this way.
woofie said:What sort of fertilizer are you using? I just this morning found a straggling Heavenly Blue, still in a 4" pot (!) with a lovely big bloom on it! So I moved it into a larger pot (thereby ensuring that it will croak, sigh). Maybe they'd like me better if I fed them?
I use a multitude of stuff on rotation
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Sprays:
Neptune's Harvest Organic Seaweed Fertilizer
Liquid Kelp Organic Seaweed
Soil drenches or tea made from different combinations of these:
Compost
Worm castings
Epsom Salts
Horse manure
Powdered minerals
A pinch or two of blood meal
Bokashi
Saved water from the aquarium
Pond algae (from our lake)
Basically whatever's handy at the moment. I just like to mix it up a bit -there's certainly nothing scientific in the way of feeding going on around here.
