Here's how to pamper your pine tree with fertilizer

Epsom salt - an effective remedy for nutritional deficiencies

Epsom salt is a substance with a high magnesium content. It is considered an optimal fertilizer for various conifers. But other plants with green foliage also benefit from the product. To use it, do the following:

1. take a soil sample with a test strip from the nursery in order to rule out other negative factors such as drought, too much lime or excessive moisture
2. only use Epsom salt if there is a nutritional deficiency
3. to do this, obtain a two percent solution (also available in solid form)
4. strictly adhere to the dosage recommendations given (see below)
5. then adequately water your jaws

Benefits of Epsom Salt

• regulates the pH of the soil
• releases its effect very quickly
• can be washed out well

Pay attention to the dosage

Only use Epsom salts if you have a magnesium deficiency and strictly adhere to the recommended amount. Otherwise there will be an excess of magnesium in the soil, which leads to a simultaneous potassium deficiency.

Alternatives

Do you think that your jaw is not just lacking in magnesium, or is the pH of the soil not being too low or too high? In this case you are with special Coniferous fertilizer well advised.

Fertilizing a bonsai pine tree

With a bonsai pine tree, Epsom salt is usually not required. Better to use Bonsai liquid fertilizer here. Here, too, you can choose from solid granules as an alternative. While you should only enrich the substrate once a month in winter, your pine will thrive if you feed it every two weeks. That is during the budding Fertilize not recommendable.