This gentleman is 100% correct on watering daily and with ENOUGH water until it runs out of the basket bottom. For example: a 10-12 inch hanging pot (this would be the actual pot size, not foliage width or height) requires at least 2 gallons of water per day just to make sure that there are no dry pockets of soil. This video really saved my time and money, not to mention sanity. I used to FAIL at maintaining the gorgeous petunia baskets I'd fall in love with at the Nursery until I figured out that i wasn't watering them enough. This is the first year I've ever succeeded in keeping them just as beautiful and full of blooms as they were at the Nursery. As my baskets are hanging in full, hot sun - I only water them in the evening, after sun set. Each baskets gets about 2 gallons of water, and about 15 minutes later after they've stopped dripping heavily, then to each basket I add about 1/2 a gallon of water pre-mixed with liquid fertilizer (Jack's Petunia Feed is AWESOME!). I still can't believe how packed with blooms my baskets are. Best of luck to everyone!
Greg Grimer Hi, this watering technique is suggested for flowering baskets that are out in full, hot sun all day. Namely prolific bloomers such as petunias. These guys require being drenched once and possibly twice a day until water runs out. Salts being flushed aren't a worry as you don't want them to build up in the soil anyways. It is inevitable that some nutrients will be lost and that is why a small amount of daily water soluble fertilizer added is a must.
after draining it with water, hold the pot in your palm and feel how heavy it is. then doing again in the evening, you will be amazed at how much lighter it is after 6 hours in the sun .
so true. took me 2 tries with my potted hanging vinca minor. i gave up and let my 5yo son have fun with it. he drowned it while waiting for school bus and again when he got home. you got it, the vinca grows like crazy within 2 week 🤪. i used 2 parts common soil mixed with 1 part perlite with a handfull of chicken manure pellets every month. very hot and dry in summer here.
Love gardening especially when flowers are blooming and vegetables are bearimg . This year I bought an English lavender, always wanted to try growing it for sweet fragrance. Appreciate any tips, thanku.
A trick I use is take the tiny pellets from a baby diaper and mix in with the soil or put in at the bottom of the plant. When I am watering my hanging plants, I will actually take a 5 gallon bucket filled with water and I will then submerse the bottom pot and let it sit for maybe 5 minutes or so. This beats standing around and watering the plants when I could be attending to something else in my garden. This ensures a good watering for those hot dry days. I also will trim if needed or pick off the dead heads to ensure continuing growth. My ferns and petunias are amazingly gorgeous! No more wilted plants!
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fertilize with EVERY watering? I've always been afraid that would harm the plant so I do it about once a week. Is it 100% safe to do that even if the instructions dont recommend that? Im currently using Jack's Petunia food and Ill throw in some Miracle Grow occasionally as well.
Can you take the hanging basket down and put it over grass while you’re watering it and adding fertiliser and then hang it back up a few minutes later when there is no more water dripping from the bottom of the basket?
I have a mini petunia in a pot that just stopped flowering right after I bought it, I will try the daily watering thing. It's in full sun but just stopped :(
I have 2 hanging baskets of million bells and I been giving them some miracle grow bloom booster and I have a BUNCH of blooms now. So you should water them until water runs through the basket at the bottom? There's people that say that causes fungus?? And should I leave them in the sun all day after there watered well?
Exactly. I killed mine watering every day last summer from the hose. Not every day and from watering can. U should touch with finger, if soil is moist - no water
probably because it was a vinca. the Supertunias and Super bells in this video, when in full sun 6+ hours a day will actually need water every morning in the Summer.
Ray Andrew Skip the deadheading, just cut back a few inches all the way around (a uniform haircut) once most blooms are spent. This might mean sacrificing some flowers but it'll pay off. In about 10 days or so you'll have a ton more new growth and flowers. As well; I can't recommend enough the importance of a quality water soluble fertilizer.
This seems like bad advise here. Many sites recommend only watering when necessary, not always every day and not always so it comes out of the bottom. Also, using miracle grow every time watering seems crazy.
I wonder if he lives in Arizona maybe where it’s really hot and dry? In Toronto, a basket will stay wet for at least a few days, a week if it’s cool and humid out.
The confusing part for most gardeners is one video says, water until it runs out the bottom and another, claims if you do that, you're washing out all of your nutrients. Blah, blah, blah. Just water them every day and once a week feed them an NPK of 10-10-10 and the next week give them a bloom booster.......all summer. You'll be fine
Hi I live in Ohio and it can be 78 and sunny one day and 35 and rainy the next.... that's pretty much how spring is here...so my question is do I still need to water everyday? And fertilize daily?
how much is the best to put into the watering can? i seem to some how almost always almost kill off my flowers when treying to use m-grow hose sprayers..
@@stevepasquarella823 Yes not a full dose I think the plants do better because the Miracle Gro fertiliser has a wetting agent added. so the plants get a good soaking and less water just rolling off the dried compost.
Barb zmuda No it won't burn them if done right! Every week or 2 is nowhere near sufficient. Hanging baskets must be watered daily during hot sumer months, sometimes even twice a day depending. Prolific bloomers such as petunias (super and wave varieties) require continuous fertilizer (a small amount on a daily basis), especially one high in absorbable Iron as they are Iron loving plants.
Thanks I know about the watering unsure about the fertilizer also I used Burpee soil it is too rich for containers should have mixed it with something else
Barb zmuda Hun, try Jack's Petunia FeED. That's how it's spelled. It's tremendous for all flowering pots, but especially for petunias as they have issues taking up Iron. Mix a teaspoon in each gallon and water daily. Just enough water until it starts running out of the bottom. You ought to see my Surfinia Petunias this year 😉 I used to go with Miracle Grow.. never again. As far as the potting soil mix, go with a bale of Spagnum Peat (home Depot for 10 bucks, enough to do tons of pots) Mix that 70% Spagnum to 30% Perlite. Petunias like their soil light and fluffy and they love a good fertilizer.
He missed something extremely important: pruning your petunias. Missing this crucial step results in leggy, thin and unpleasant looking petunias that are far from the bushy baskets displayed in the video. I still think I learned something from his video.
Silly. Synthetic fertilizer (soluble) is absolutely best for hanging baskets. “Organic fertilizer” can take 60-90 days to mineralise and become N to feed the plant.
@@MrStangdawg , organic fertilizers stay in the soil for much, much longer. It's more cost prohibitive so many people opt for the cheaper synthetic fertilizers.
@@christinah.8504 incorrect. Your premise is "organic is better". It's not. You don't understand the process of how Nitrogen mineralizes from an "organic" fertilizer. I know that based on your reply. Hanging plants need N and P to grow and bloom vigorously. Organic fertilizer isn't efficient enough or available enough to the roots in a plastic hanging container that's getting watered daily. This isn't about your feelings or the buzz word of "organic". This is science. Sorry. You don't have enough soil/organic matter in a hanging pot to mineralize organic fertilizer. This is the reason companies recommend soluble fertilizers for hanging plants . Do you really think that people spending 40-80 bucks on a hanging plant can't afford $5 in fertilizer? Cost is not the issue here.
