The Right Fertilizers and Soil for All Your Tropical Plants

If planting tropical plants is on the list this time, there is a specific kind of soil and fertilizer that you will needs. Let’s find out what this type is. 

Check the Quality Of The Fertilizers 

A good quality fertilizer will surely not be a cheap - for a fertilizer of superior quality you need to spend some extra money. The golden rule of buying a good quality fertilizers states to buy contents instead of brands as they will cost more and still be a compromise with product value. Expensive fertilizer contents have better plant food value and provide the soil with important nutrients for a longer period of time. 

Understanding the Essential Contents Of Fertilizer 

While checking out different brands of fertilizers, you might have noticed that the bags are marked with a set of three numbers like 2-5-8. This set of number is a label to the essential content of fertilizer, where the first number marks the nitrogen content, second number is for phosphorus content and potassium is marked with the third number. Thus, the selection of the fertilizer should always be dependent upon the requirements by the soil and should be kept in rotation. 

Feeding the Plants With Nutritious Fertilizers 

Because fertilizers enhance the nutritive value of the soil and turn up as an essential component of plant’s diet, it is important that you decide on the balanced fertilizer feed as per the requirements of a plant. For instant a plant that requires enhanced content of acid in diet should be nourished with acid forming fertilizers for proper nourished growth and preserved food values. Moreover the fertilizer should be uniformly sprinkled in a drip line manner around the plant surroundings. 

     Balancing  Soil With Appropriate Fertilizer Contents 

    Different agricultural and horticultural universities globally recommend fertilizing the soil at least four times a year with alteration in basic nutrients. However, the selection of fertilizers is certainly dependent on the climatic conditions and other natural features like soil type, availability of water and sunlight. Besides fertilizing the soil with chemical fertilizers, it is important to balance it with organic manures and give the organic content enough time to formulate throughout the soil enhancing its natural value. Moreover, the soil should be fertilized with high nitrogen content at the time of pellets and with low contents of nitrogen for fruits and flowers. 

     Buying Best Quality Soil For Tropical Plants

     Having the best quality of soil for tropical plants is certainly more essential than getting the right combination of fertilizers. Good quality soil content should have a balanced permutation of natural ingredients like moss, charcoal chips, wooden or pine bark chips, composted manure, dehydrated manure with seed hulls and mushroom compost. Besides all such natural elements, the soil should also have a balanced ratio of fungicides, insecticides with a blended composition of top and potting soil.