Flowering Plant Food
Support vibrant blooms and lush foliage with a liquid plant food made for flowering plants. It provides consistent nutrition for healthy growth while keeping plant care straightforward.
Easy to mix into your normal watering routine, it makes regular feeding simple without adding a complicated extra step.
Why You'll Love It
- Bloom Support Feeds flowering plants consistently through their blooming season.
- Healthy Foliage Supports the lush growth that carries a full flush of flowers.
- Steady Growth Mixes easily, so feeding stays regular rather than occasional.
Made by growers
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- Made in-house, in the USA. Every bottle mixed and filled by us, not a third party.
- We're growers, not resellers. We use this on our own plants before it ships.
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Flowering plant food formulated to support vibrant blooms and lush foliage. Easy mixing makes it simple to feed flowering plants consistently throughout the growing season.
How to Use Flowering Plant Food
| Method | Amount | How Often |
|---|---|---|
| Watering can (spring & summer) | 2 Tbs (30mL) per gallon of water | Apply every 1-2 weeks |
| Watering can (fall & winter) | Same dilution | Apply every 4 weeks |
| Hose end sprayer | Set dial to 1 oz (30mL) setting | Apply every 1-2 weeks in spring and summer |
| Leaf misting (optional) | 1 tsp per quart (32 oz) of water | Spray on leaves every 1-2 weeks |
Mix into your normal watering — no separate feeding routine needed. Container flowers need it most: frequent watering flushes nutrients out of pots faster than beds.
What's Inside
A 3-3.6-5.1 ratio built for continuous flowering. Potassium leads at 5.1%, moving sugars into buds and managing the water pressure that keeps petals turgid — the difference between blooms that hold for days and blooms that collapse in an afternoon. Phosphate at 3.6% feeds bud formation, the step that determines how many flowers you get at all. Nitrogen sits at a deliberate 3%, all of it nitrate nitrogen — absorbed directly by roots, fast-acting with low burn risk — enough to keep leaves green and photosynthesizing, since a flowering plant still runs on foliage, but not so much that it stops setting buds and starts making leaves.
Beyond NPK: sea kelp (Ascophyllum nodosum) for natural growth compounds, plus calcium at an unusually high 2.1% and 0.75% magnesium, with iron, manganese, zinc, boron, and copper. Boron and calcium are the two heavy bloomers run short of first — boron is essential to pollen viability and bud development, and a shortage shows up as buds that abort or open malformed rather than as anything visible in the leaves.
Made For
Flowering annuals and perennials — petunias, geraniums, marigolds, impatiens, begonias, mums, dahlias, zinnias, and salvia — in hanging baskets, window boxes, patio containers, and garden beds, plus flowering houseplants and mixed color plantings.
Problems It Solves
- Container flowers that bloom hard for a month then quit
- Plenty of healthy foliage with few flowers
- Buds that drop or open malformed
- Blooms that fade and collapse faster than they should
FAQs
How often should I feed flowering plants?
Add 2 Tbs (30mL) per gallon of water and apply every 1-2 weeks in spring and summer, dropping to every 4 weeks in fall and winter. A hose end sprayer set to the 1 oz (30mL) setting covers beds and hanging baskets quickly, and you can optionally mist leaves with 1 tsp per quart every 1-2 weeks. Containers benefit from the frequent end of that range.
Why do my hanging baskets stop blooming mid-summer?
Usually nutrient exhaustion plus spent flowers. Baskets are watered daily in heat, which flushes nutrients out fast — the potting mix is empty within weeks of purchase. Regular feeding at the label rate replaces what washes through. Pair it with deadheading: many annuals stop flowering once they set seed, so removing spent blooms keeps them producing. Both matter; neither works alone.
Why does my plant have leaves but no flowers?
Two usual causes, and neither is a shortage of bloom fertilizer. Too much nitrogen — from lawn feed drift or an all-purpose fertilizer — keeps plants in leaf mode, which is why this formula holds nitrogen at 3% and leads with phosphate and potassium. The other is light: most flowering plants need real sun to set buds, and nothing you feed them substitutes for it.
How is this different from a 0-10-10 bloom booster?
This is a complete feed; a booster isn't. With 3% nitrogen, this can be a flowering plant's only fertilizer through the season — it supplies foliage nutrition alongside bloom nutrition. A 0-10-10 booster has no nitrogen at all, so it's an add-on to push bloom on plants already fed something else. If you want one bottle for your flowers, this is it.
Can I use this on flowering houseplants?
Yes — African violets, orchids in bloom, anthurium, peace lilies, and Christmas cactus all benefit from a bloom-weighted feed. Use the same 2 Tbs per gallon dilution and follow the seasonal schedule, easing off during a plant's natural rest period after flowering. Species with unusual needs — orchids in bark, or carnivorous plants — do better on formulas built specifically for them.
When will I see results?
All the nitrogen is nitrate, absorbed directly by roots, so it starts working with the first watering. Plants already carrying buds respond fastest: better color and longer-lasting blooms within 1-2 weeks. New bud production takes longer — expect a visible increase in flower count over 3-5 weeks of regular feeding, since the plant has to initiate those buds before it can open them.
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