{"id":2677,"date":"2026-04-07T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:54:19","slug":"april-8th-meeting-at-the-farmington-senior-centerjoin-us-for-water-quality-part-2-plant-nutrition-fertilizer-and-supplements-presented-by-christian-lesage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/?p=2677","title":{"rendered":"April 8th Meeting at the Farmington Senior CenterJoin us for Water Quality Part 2: Plant Nutrition, Fertilizer and Supplements presented by Christian Lesage!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join us for Water Quality Part 2:<\/strong> Plant Nutrition, Fertilizer and Supplements presented by Christian Lesage!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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There are many water soluble fertilizers on the market, choosing the right one depends on your water quality and how that influences your substrate over time.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Meeting Date:<\/strong> Wednesday, April 8th<\/sup> at the Farmington Senior Center.\u00a0 Doors open at 6:00pm for socializing and the general body meeting starts at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n

Where<\/strong>: The Farmington Senior Center: 321 New Britain Ave, Unionville, CT 06085<\/p>\n

Event:<\/strong> Elementals of Orchid Growing Part 2: Plant Nutrition, Fertilizer and Supplements<\/em><\/p>\n

This month we decided to shake things up and have postponed our orchid repotting meeting for another time, perhaps an orchid repotting clinic at a garden center on a weekend, which is advertised and open to the public, stay tuned. Instead, I will be presenting the second part of my talk The Elementals of Orchid Growing: A Practical and Scientific approach to demystifying watering Part 2: Plant Nutrition and Supplements. I may have been a bit ambitious with the expectation of making it through 64 slides in one evening, so we cut the talk right at the end of the discussion about how fertilizer choice affects your water chemistry. If you missed the first part of the presentation, I am working on getting that posted on our website under the Education tab.<\/p>\n

Part 2 Plant Nutrition and Supplements will focus on tailoring your fertilizer regime to your water source and the long-term effects of your plant nutrient program on your plants, with an extensive discussion on the different types of supplements and products available to boost plant growth. We encouraged everyone to bring in water samples for testing the pH and EC as a starting point for understanding your water quality, however things did not go entirely as planning since the pH probe broke halfway through the samples and then the battery died on the unit shortly thereafter and we were unable to finish testing all the samples. The goal is to produce a chart that we can publish to the membership showing how your water sample compares to others across the state. We would like to complete that goal and if you are planning on attending the meeting, we encourage you to bring in a water sample, even if you brought one in last time two data points are better than one!<\/p>\n

I will be bringing my combo EC (Electrical Conductivity) and pH meter (and a backup) to the meeting and encourage anyone interested to bring in water samples for testing at the end of the talk. This is a quick starting point for understanding your water quality and a good place to start making decisions about cultural practices. Be sure to use a clean uncontaminated contain such as a used plastic water bottle, fill the bottle completely and avoid leaving a large air gap at the top.<\/p>\n

There will be a show table, so don’t forget to bring along your blooming plants for the show table. It’s always exciting to see what’s coming into bloom, looking forward to an awesome show table!<\/p>\n

Please print and fill out the ID card for the show table here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join us for Water Quality Part 2: Plant Nutrition, Fertilizer and Supplements presented by Christian Lesage! There are many water soluble fertilizers on the market, choosing the right one depends on your water quality and how that influences your substrate over time. Meeting Date: Wednesday, April 8th at the Farmington Senior Center.\u00a0 Doors open at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}