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Help! Poisoned my plants

gilla.walmsleygilla.walmsley Posts: 339
in Problem solving
After painstakingly growing various things from seed for the first time ever and spending lots of money on beautiful plants for pots, everything suddenly started dying. After some investigating I've realised today that I mistakenly fed all my plants concentrated plant food by accident and now everything is either dying or dead, including all my house plants. Needless to say today is not a good day! The seedlings are a total write off... is there anything I can do about my poor house plants which have started to turn yellow and my salvia in a pot outside which has also started to shrivel and die? Would removing them from the compost they are in and repotting be likely to help at all? The Salvia are in full flower... 


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  • aureliecelerieraureliecelerier Posts: 157
    Try to remove as much compost as you can without breaking the roots, fill with new compost then give your plants a good soak to leach the remaining fertilizer out of the soil and cut any wilted/yellow leaves. Good luck to you, I feel your pain... :(
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You could try flushing water through them, I suppose and then repotting. Good luck.
    On the slightly brighter side - you'll never do it again.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • gilla.walmsleygilla.walmsley Posts: 339
    Thank you both - I am so angry at myself! When you say flush them through or soak them - do you mean literally soak or shower the root in water before I repot with new compost? Or do you just mean soak the new compost thoroughly? The over feeding was about 2 weeks ago now so I fear it's too late, but it's worth a try.... thanks so much for any advice!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It may well be too late, but remove the plants and thoroughly wash the compost off them - as well as you can anyway. Then replant in fresh compost.
    The salvia may recover, but do the same with it, and then also cut it back by about half when you replant. The less top growth it has to support, the easier it will be for it to recover. Keep it in a slightly shady aspect too - that will also help it's recovery. If there's any viable material, you could also take some cuttings as back up. Fingers crossed it will come back, but you'll need patience!  :)
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  • InglezinhoInglezinho Posts: 568
    Water, water, water.
    Everyone likes butterflies. Nobody likes caterpillars.
  • gilla.walmsleygilla.walmsley Posts: 339
    edited June 2018
    Thank you everyone, much appreciated! Guess I have a busy day ahead of me...!
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