Hello, I was wondering what kind of fertilizer to feed potted bamboos(staph.nigra, arundinaria var. etc..) Thank you!
Bone meal would be a good natural one. If that is too smelly try pellet chicken fertilizer or some sort of slow release stuff. Seaweed/ fish emulsions. Any of these would work. Re potting with fresh good quality soil occasionaly works wonders too. Have just done that with one I have had growing in an old cement wash tub for years. Has taken off like a rocket. Liz
Acer 20 10 10. It is by far the best stuff I have come across. They produce it in Vancouver. Google it. Trust me on this one. I have tried lawn fertilizers with bad results. but this is amazing
Thanks for this tip, booboy! I'll check this out -- I'm always looking for new ways to make my bamboos happy. My favorite thing so far has been a locally produced (here in Maine) mixture of seaweed extract and fish emulsion. I use it for almost everything in the garden as well as potted specimens. Sometimes for potted bamboos I go a bit lighter on the nitrogen because I don't want to encourage overly exuberant growth when the plants are indoors during the winter. (I drag everything outside during our all-too-brief summers, and a lot of this tender winter growth immediately starts looking shabby and weather-beaten). In this case sometimes I use only seaweed extract and a bit of homemade compost in the potting mixture.
