How to Feed PlantsTips for choosing the correct fertilizer for your plants, plus the right ways to apply...By McCauslandJim
Air plants don’t have roots like other plants; they only have a few short ones meant to help hold them onto whatever surface they’re on. In their native habitats across the Southern U.S., Mexico, and Central and South America, air plants get what they need from high humidity and ple...
Under natural conditions plants feed themselves. Water makes up 80 to 90% of their weight, and the assimilation of carbon dioxide from the air provides a high proportion of the rest of the tissue material. Three elements only—carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are concerned in this: the other 1 o...
Once you know your trees and shrubs have taken to their new environment through the successful establishment, you can now begin afertilization routineto help feed your plants. But I don’t suggest fertilization until then. Otherwise, you’re putting undue stress on plants that don’t need to ...
Be sure to keep the potting soil just moist throughout the season. Do not let the soil dry out. Feed eggplants in containers every two to three weeks with compost tea or a dilute solution of fish emulsion. Container-grown eggplants are easily moved out of cold weather; so you can exten...
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While it’s rooting, your succulent or cactus should be protected from direct sun, and should get plenty of airflow. Keep the soil lightly moist (a spray-bottle works great), but not drenched, to avoid rotting. Method 2: Propagate plants with leaf cuttings – ...
produced and used to feed the plant. Speeding up the process of photosynthesis by adding sugar to their water can help your plants grow faster. While sugar is beneficial to the growth of the plant, too much can be harmful so care must be taken in how much sugar is given to the plant....
How will climate change alter plant carbon sequestration and what currently unknown feedback loops will emerge? How might plants evolve due to climate change? Are there species that could cope better, or species that we might lose? How can we continue to breed crop plants for productivity, whil...
More than half of the world's population feed on rice. But pests like rice planthoppers can cause major losses in global rice production every year. And pesticides these days only lead to more ecological problems than the ones they solve. Scientists have been looking within ...