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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

   If your plant needs fertilizer and you fertilize it, it usually takes 
eight days for the fertilized plant to show signs of being fertilized.  If 
you over fertilize, the effect may appear sooner.  If over fertilized and 
you want to save the plant, stir in copious amounts of gypsum into the soil 
and water profusely.  This technique usually works with potted plants and 
can also work if planted outside in well drained soil.  It'll take time but 
plants often restore their health.
   Most of the cases of over fertilization I hear about is from users of 
'Miracle-Gro.'  I warn my students to not use it or any high nitrogen 
fertilizer -or - if they do continue to use it, water with 1/2 teaspoon (the 
little end of the plastic spoon that comes with Miracle-Gro) per gallon of 
water every)(!) time they water the plant.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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