Issues with the Organics, PIX

Well... I finally broke down after a few days of foliar and root feeding and started using "the blue stuff", my orchid food. It has everything except calcium in it, and I was getting worried about getting a lot of salt build-up with the Epsom salt use. I've used it very dilutely, and sometimes mix it in with an earthworm casting-molasses-seaweed extract tea. I did throw in a couple of aspirin as well, as I used a foliar spray on three occasions. Anyway, all but one plant have improved greatly, they're almost off "the blue stuff" (desperate times call for desperate measures!), and that one, The Little Tortilla Boy, is bad genes as far as I'm concerned, having been borked from birth. He shall soon meet his end.

However, I've identified many more females, including two Conquistador and my one Papaya.

wait, so you gave the epsom only a few days? or the week you said you would

what's in the blue stuff?

I used the Epsom salt for a full week. Then, as I was watching things get worse, I started reading the ingredients of what I have on hand. One of those things is a "blue stuff", a fertilizer, approved by some orchid society. It has all kinds of things in it, except Ca. But, Dr. Earth has Ca, not so much magnesium. They're getting Dr. Earth dry fertilizer topdressed at a ratio of 2t/plant every 2 weeks. I need more, will be getting the acid-loving plants edition, Organic 6 I think it is (I don't actually remember off hand). This orchid food, while not organic, seems to be decent stuff for making a quick fix. I did have two plants with purple stems until I killed one, and now I have one left. She's being fed, I can't remember what purple stems and streakiness is.

Next on the list of things to add to my collection--chicken poop, sister swears by it, handful o' chicken poop in every hole, and her thumb is pretty green.