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Had a chat with a retired florist who said she never uses those fancy fertilizers
She told me she just uses compost tea from her own kitchen scraps for 40 years. Made me wonder if I'm overcomplicating my indoor plants for no reason. Has anyone else heard of professional growers keeping it that simple?
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mila_reed2d agoMost Upvoted
Oh man, that totally reminds me of something! My neighbor has been growing orchids for decades and she swears by plain old diluted coffee grounds as her only plant food. Her living room is practically a jungle and everything blooms like crazy every year.
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Remember reading about this guy who ran a huge greenhouse operation upstate, and his secret was basically just letting his old banana peels and eggshells soak in water for a week or two. He claimed all the commercial stuff was just a waste of money and that plants actually prefer the simple nutrients from real food scraps. I tried it myself with my herbs and tomatoes last summer and honestly they grew just as well as when I was buying the expensive liquid fertilizers. The compost tea method that florist mentioned is pretty much the same idea, just letting nature do the work instead of dumping chemicals on everything. Makes you wonder how much we're all getting tricked into buying things we don't actually need.
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