Interesting Article Concerning Schefflera/Ficus and NPK/Light

[Desert Rat]

Particularly about the dry weight of NPK of healthy plants. According to the article, a 1-10-2 type fertilizer would maintain the plant the best. I attempted to see if UFL had notes on Ficus, but the website keeps reporting an error when trying to access the other "production notes" pages.

Thoughts?

http://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/foliage/folnotes/scheffle.htm

 

[Desert Rat]

Here's the Ficus production page, but it doesn't show a measured dry weight unfortunately. There's still some good information about light intensity and so forth:

http://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/foliage/folnotes/ficus.htm

 

[coh]

Particularly about the dry weight of NPK of healthy plants. According to the article, a 1-10-2 type fertilizer would maintain the plant the best. I attempted to see if UFL had notes on Ficus, but the website keeps reporting an error when trying to access the other "production notes" pages.

Thoughts?

http://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/foliage/folnotes/scheffle.htm

Where are you coming up with "1-10-2"? They mention using a 3-1-2 ratio several times (and that is similar to what I have seen from other studies). I scanned both articles and didn't see any references to 1-10-2.

The leaves contained

N: 2.8-3.7 %
P: 0.26 -0.35 %
K: 2.5% - 3.5 %

 

[Desert Rat]

Eh, you're right. I'm going to blame my reading comprehension skills at 4:30am. It looks like I cited PKCa values. NPK is 10-1-2 in the Schefflera. It looks like Alaska Fish Fertilizer would be ideal, with the consequence being a surplus of Phosphorus.