start of a problem?

[gorbelly]

Originally Posted by encore

i put a cup of 10-10-10 fertilizer around the outside edge of the bucket about 3 inches or so below the top, then another inch of soil, then chips the last inch or so. would all that fertilizer be used up by now? it's self watering from the bottom up, and we have'nt had an rain in a week and a half, the bottom 4 inches stays wet the rest seems to be damp, you think maybe i shoud water some from the top to get the fertilizer to come down some?

If the fertilizer is on the top and the container self-waters from the bottom, I would top-water occasionally. How long ago did you put the fertilizer in? And was it some kind of organic granular fertilizer?

From what I understand, people generally get better results adding dilute liquid fertilizer regularly to the water underneath self-irrigating containers.

Re: epsom salt--be careful. Too much Mg will outcompete calcium and can predispose your plants to BER. It's pretty easy to develop an imbalance in containers.