Suitability of Cake Fertilizer for Different Flowers
This article introduces the knowledge about which flowers are suitable for using cake fertilizer, and detailed content will be shared next.
Suitability of Cake Fertilizer for Different Flowers
Firstly, it can be clearly stated that most of the flowers and plants we cultivate daily can use cake fertilizer water as a top-dressing. It is a type of organic fertilizer liquid with a relatively high nitrogen content. After applying it to flowering plants and green plants, it can promote robust and dark green stems and leaves, and the growth of roots and leaf buds will be more luxuriant. However, it should be noted that cake fertilizer water cannot replace other essential nutrients required by flowers.
Firstly, it can be clearly stated that most of the flowers and plants we cultivate daily can use cake fertilizer water as a top-dressing.
It is a type of organic fertilizer liquid with a relatively high nitrogen content. After applying it to flowering plants and green plants, it can promote robust and dark green stems and leaves, and the growth of roots and leaf buds will be more luxuriant.
Effects of Applying Cake Fertilizer Water to Flowers
For example, using soybean cake meal, cottonseed cake, tea seed cake, peanut cake, etc., they generally need to go through 2 to 3 months of fermentation and ripening before use. When used as a top-dressing for flowering plants, it needs to be diluted with water to a certain multiple to be safe and effective.
Generally, a dilution of 20 to 30 times is recommended, or even more dilute. When using it, the cake fertilizer solution should usually be clarified and the residue removed before application.
Timely application of cake fertilizer water is a prerequisite to ensure the robust growth of flowering plants, bright leaf color, and lush growth of flowering plants. Cake fertilizer water is mainly a fertilizer rich in nitrogen.
It can promote rapid growth of flowers with dark green leaves; for seedlings of flowering plants and foliage flowers, nitrogen fertilizer should be mainly applied, usually from spring to early summer, and nitrogen fertilizer cannot be lacking during the vegetative growth period of flowering plants.
However, when flowers enter the dormant period and before the reproductive growth period, the application of cake fertilizer water should be stopped to avoid fertilizer damage and excessive stem and leaf growth, making it difficult to form flower buds.
Issues to Consider When Applying Cake Fertilizer Water
1) Fertilizing According to Different Growth StagesMost flowers prefer light fertilizer, and few prefer heavy fertilizer. Although jasmine likes heavy fertilizer, it can only be heavily fertilized in the summer, under the conditions of strong sunlight and abundant watering.
If heavy fertilizer is applied as soon as the plants are moved out of the room in spring, it will be detrimental. At this time, jasmine has not yet fully entered the vigorous growth stage, and heavy fertilizer will certainly cause root burn and seedling death.
Chrysanthemums also like heavy fertilizer, but if too much nitrogen fertilizer is applied during the early growth stage, it will cause excessive growth and difficulty in forming flower buds.
Flowers that prefer acidic soil, such as gardenia, azalea, camellia, and jasmine, need to be top-dressed with bud-promoting fertilizer at the beginning of spring to promote the enlargement of bud spikes and rapid germination.
2) Loosening the Soil Before Top-DressingIn order to facilitate the rapid penetration of fertilizer water and easy absorption by the plant roots, the cultivation soil of the plant should be loosened before applying cake fertilizer water.
The purpose of this is to make the soil loose and well-ventilated, allowing the cake fertilizer water to quickly penetrate into the soil, which is beneficial for the thorough absorption by the flower roots.
3) Avoid Using Cake Fertilizer Water AloneWhen cake fertilizer water is combined with phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, it can enhance the fertilizer effect; when organic fertilizer is combined with inorganic fertilizer, it can extend the fertilizer effect; and the frequent use of organic fertilizer can prevent the potting soil from becoming compacted and not breathable, improving soil aeration, water permeability, water retention, and fertilizer retention.
This is better than using inorganic chemical fertilizers alone or applying a single organic fertilizer solution for the growth and flowering of flowers.
The detailed explanation of which flowers are suitable for using cake fertilizer shared above is for reference and suggestion only!