Alan: Some things that you fertilize, and this would be true for regardless of when you're doing it, more is not necessarily better. I know people, myself sometimes, if it calls for one teaspoon, two must be better. So that's not necessarily the case especially depending what fertilizer you're using.

A water soluble type something that is taken very readily through the plant, very instant kind of effect. Versus something that's slow release or time release fertilizer, which tend to be a lot safer. You can still burn but not to the severity that you can with some of those water soluble ones. Especially in some of those hotter months. So just be careful with that. If it says a teaspoon or two teaspoons, whatever product you're using, especially on those water soluble ones, you can do some burning in those hotter months.

And it would be something that you'd want to try to do in the early morning. Just so the plant is not under stress in the early morning, and it gives the the entire course of the day for the foliage to dry out.

If evening is your only option, you don't hear about evening because the water stays on the foliage. The plant stays wet through the course of the night. And again, going back to some of the fungal problems. That would be something that would just, not necessarily cause it, but could encourage it. And we're not trying to do that. So just remember stay away from those midday fertilizing applications.

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