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Gardening Area => Growing questions and answers => Topic started by: ueihtam on June 02, 2017, 01:21:38 AM
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hi every mimosa lovers i have babys mimosa tenuiflora i want to know if i can start give them low fertilizer
some have start losing the bottom leaves
they have germinated the 11 mars 2017
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IMO i would rarely ever fertilize mimosa. Naturally in the wild they grow fine in poor soil.. if i am not mistaken,
they are nitrogen fixing>? which means they produce their own nitrogen, and add nitrogen back into the soil.
So i guess use a low nitrogen fertilizer.. this is just guessing.. but small pots+to much sun can equal leaf loss.
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thank you i will give them cactus fertilizer 2-7-7 for cactus you usualy use this fert every time you water soo i think if i give them that each month they will be ok
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Don't they need to find the right bacteria and live in symbiosis to be able to produce their own nitrogen ?
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if i take the example of the strangler fig, they can take their nitrogen from the ambient air with their aerial root
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Tenuiflora is a synonym of Hostilis and this paper (http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1392650360_de%20Freitas%20et%20al.pdf) says :
M. tenuiflora is a species of wide distribution, occupying dry areas of Brazil to Mexico, Honduras and El Savador (...) Its preferred symbionts are apparently β-proteobacteria, belonging to the genus Burkholderia
So you could find some rhyzobium inoculant or be lucky and have the right bacterias (many can make the job) already in your soil.
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is mycorrhizae good for that tree !?
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is mycorrhizae good for that tree !?
Sybiosis is good for every being..