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How to make your seedlings grow faster, healthier and stronger

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Everybody would like for their vegetable plants to grow fast, strong and healthy. There are a lot of things they say you can do. But not all of them really help.
I do know two things that you can do that will definitely make them grow strong and healthy. And one of them, would also make them grow faster.

In my previous post, I wrote on how to make you seeds germinate faster. Once those have germinated, you would like for them to grow into beautiful vegetable plants that can produce a lot.

One of those things is watering your plants with fish water. Most of you guys may have an aquarium at home. This water contains many nutrients for your plants. I haven’t done this a lot myself, but I know some readers that did try it and have great success with it.

Dave Davis (@Davo_ov_scunny) tweeted:
@HydroGardening my friend uses hus fish tank water when he changes the water,full of fish poo & pee. Hydro-Ordanic. :-)

So I can assure you, that watering them with fish water makes them strong and healthy!

The other thing that you can do, is use worm tea. Worm compost is one of the best nutrients that you can give your plants. Worm tea is worm compost diluted in water. So in the worm tea, you get the same nutrients as in the worm compost.
Worm tea is my favorite nutrient to use. It’s organic and very effective. I’ve been using this for a long time on all my vegetable plants. And I can really see the difference.
I use it for nutrients, pesticide (which also helps a lot) and for rooting plants. I’m going to do an experiment on this so you can see the difference between plants watered with worm tea, plants watered with fish water and the one watered with normal water.

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Benefits of growing organic

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Why do I think organic gardening is good?

Well, to start, organic gardening is better because you don’t use chemicals. Chemicals damages the plants more than they help it.

Pesticide: pesticide are dangerous for our health. They may not harm you immediately, but they slowly do.
They are also dangerous to our environment. There are birds and other good insects that eat the bad insects on your plants. By spraying the bad insects, the good insects and birds will also get harmed. Because they eat the insects that were sprayed with the pesticide.
An organic solution to these bad insects is worm tea. I’ve never experienced the worm tea killing the insects. I only see them disappear. Maybe they died or maybe they flew away. But what I do know is that they never came back! So you should definitely try this out.
Another method of getting rid of them is to plant different types of flowers. These will atract beneficial insects that will eat the bad insects.

Nutrients: non-organic nutrients damage the soil more than they help the plant. Of course this is bad. Because a bad soil type means no healthy vegetables.
You can give your plants as many non-organic nutrients as you want. But you don’t always see a progress. Sometimes you do.
But one thing for sure is that they won’t make the plant healthier and the vegetables won’t be tastier.
Using organic nutrients will make your plants healthier and your vegetables will also get tastier. And they won’t damage your soil either. They will even make it better than it was!
My organic nutrient is also worm tea. My plants have been growing much better after I started using this. Try it out and let me know how it works.

To learn more about worm tea, click here.

So my conclusion is that organic gardening is always better. It:

  • makes your plants grow healthier
  • enhances you soil quality
  • makes your vegetables taste better
  • won’t damage the soil
  • is environment friendly

When to give you plants nutrients

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You have to remember to give your plants the nutrients they need to get stronger and healthier plants that produce a lot for your family.

Nitrogen
Nitrogen helps with the leaves and growth of the plant.
When a plant needs nitrogen, the leaves will become yellow.

Phosphorus
Phosphorus helps with pollination of the flowers. So you’ll have a bigger production per plant. It also helps for the plant to get stronger on the roots and for it to resist pests.
A plant that needs phosphorus, gets kinda like a blue-ish leaf.

Potassium
Potassium helps for the plant to be stronger in cold weathers. It also helps for the plant to grow bigger and tastier fruits.
When it needs potassium, the leaves’ end will start to become brown.

NPK

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When you start your seeds you should be giving them nutrients. Till when the plants die.
There are 3 different kind of nutrient that a plant need when it’s growing.

Which is:

Nitrogen
This is needed for the seed to have some nutrients to develop. And when the plant start to come out, it helps the leaves and the stem to become stronger.

Phosphorus
When the flowers start to come out, they will be needing phosphorus. This helps with the spray of the flower. The chance of a fruit to start growing is greater when the plant gets enough phosphorus. A tomato plant needs a lot of phosphorus.

Calcium
For the fruits to grow bigger and have a better taste, the plant needs calcium.

I hope this post was helpful for you guys.

Brandon Koots
Hydroponics Curacao

Email: support@hydroponics-curacao.com

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