What fertilizer is best for water lilies?

Fertilization time for water lily

The time for fertilizing water lilies usually starts 15 days before its peak flowering period, and then fertilizer is applied almost every 15 days. In addition, timely fertilizer application is also needed during the peak growth season of the plant, because the plant has a relatively large demand for nutrients at this time, and additional fertilizer and water are generally added once every half a month.

What fertilizer to use for water lily

It is more appropriate to apply fertilizer containing the three nutrients of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to water lilies. Usually, a small amount of base fertilizer can be added when transplanting, which can promote the plant to adapt to the pot and grow as quickly as possible.

After that, about half a month later, when the water lily grows new leaves, it is better to apply phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, mainly urea and potassium dihydrogen phosphate, which have faster fertilizer effects. These fertilizers are very beneficial to flowering.

Water lily fertilization method

When fertilizing water lilies, you can wrap the fertilizer in a bag, then poke a few holes in the bag, and place it about 10 cm underwater to allow the fertilizer to slowly and fully dissolve in the water. This can effectively avoid fertilizer waste, or you can mix garden soil with fertilizer, make it into a ball, and apply it into the water.

Precautions for fertilizing water lilies

Water lilies like fertilizer, but are also afraid of fertilizer, so when fertilizing them, you must take care of them and not apply too much fertilizer, otherwise too much fertilizer will affect the growth of the plant and may even lead to death. In addition, do not fertilize when the plant has just grown new leaves.