To Feed or Not to Feed
By: Watch Us Grow
Feeding of houseplants in the winter months is a subject with many different opinions.
We here at Watch Us Grow Natural All Purpose Plant Food are of the belief that all plants will need some sort of feeding during the winter months.
Just like any other living thing, nutrients are essential for good health. Watch Us Grow will deliver one of the most well balanced feedings that a plant can get.
Houseplants do not go dormant in the winter , they are still carrying on photosynthesis and respiration -keeping their systems orderly. They are just doing it all at a much slower rate.
But of course there are so many different situations with peoples houseplants. The soil is very very important. In order to have a healthy and happy houseplant you must choose the right soil, use a fast free flowing mixture that drains quickly.
Do not allow the plant to sit in the mixture that has drained through for an extended amount of time.
For flowering houseplants such as African Violets or Christmas Cactus , continue to feed them as you normally would during the rest of the year. 1 tablespoon of Watch Us Grow per gallon of water every 2 weeks, apply to soil or mist as a foliar feed.
The African Violet for instance will need to be fed through the soil.
Your nonflowering houseplants will need their feeding
dosage cut back to 1 teaspoon per gallon of water and feed them once a month.
And as always with Watch Us Grow you Natural All Purpose Plant Food can feed either through the soil or mist as a foliar feed.
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About Stephen Follett Company… Our company has its roots on a farm outside the Village of Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, where in 1952 our founder, botanist and horticulturist Stephen Follett, began production of his newly developed liquid plant food concentrate Follett’s Watch Us Grow®.
He spent the previous decade experimenting with various compounds of fertilizers, trace elements and other organic and inorganic materials to find a formula that would foster healthier and better plant growth. He based his studies on the ancient idea of foliar feeding; the theory that plants can absorb nutrients through leaves, branches, stems, buds, fruits and even flowers as well as its root system. After years of trial and error, Mr. Follett perfected his gentle 8-8-8 liquid formula . . . a 256 to 1 concentrate of three major elements (nitrogen, phosphorus and potash) and five micronutrients (boron, copper, iron, manganese and zinc) plus his proprietary compound Fol-Ade® which contains eight ingredients that react on the elemental plant foods in the formula.
Since his death in 1992 at the age of 81, Mr. Follett’s grandson Phil Faustini has run the 50 year old family business. Few things have changed over the years. We’re still located on a farm a few miles from where the company started and the Watch Us Grow formula remains the same. We just don’t see any reason to tamper with something that works so darn well on everything — flowers, shrubs, trees, grasses, vegetables, fruits and house plants. Mr. Follett, known for his sense of humor, jokingly said in his later years, “why it works so well is my little secret, but I think plants grow up to get away from the stuff.” He did share his secret but only with his family. We’re glad he did. You will be, too.
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