Is attempted murder on your collection of temperate carnivores an valid reason to kill a person?
So I just went outside to inspect a Sarr that I bought less than a week ago when I found a strange little pile of perlite in one corner of the pot. I touched it and it turns out it wasn't perlite at all, but fertilizer. I checked my two other outside pots as well and it was there too. I'm suspecting that my land lord wanted to be 'nice' and help me out so he put fertilizer in all my plants. (some are just normal garden flowers so those are okay) I'm not sure exactly how long it has been there. I've only had the new Sarr for 5 days, but the other two has been outside since February. My landlord fertilized the lawn 2-3 weeks ago so that is probably when he fertilized them. It's the kind of fertilizer that looks like gravel or perlite and dissolves when it gets wet. It has rained a lot here lately, so scooping it out was pretty much impossible. I got some, but most of it just mixed with the soil.
I have just finished re-potting all three plants, removing all the soil around the roots in a bowl of water, rinsing them off under running water, rinsed the pots and trays and re-potting them in fresh soil. I use a coir/perlite mix which is pretty much the only thing I have available. I then watered them thoroughly and they are currently outside in cloudy weather in ca 15 degrees Celsius. I have no experience with this kind of situation and I'm really afraid of losing my plants. (which are pretty much impossible to get here. The two Sarrs I have are the only ones I have come across in my 5 years of growing.)
So if anyone out there has any tips or advice on what I should do I would greatly appreciate it. I am of course going to talk to my land lord about it, but I think I will wait until my burning fury fades a bit. Please help me!
So I just went outside to inspect a Sarr that I bought less than a week ago when I found a strange little pile of perlite in one corner of the pot. I touched it and it turns out it wasn't perlite at all, but fertilizer. I checked my two other outside pots as well and it was there too. I'm suspecting that my land lord wanted to be 'nice' and help me out so he put fertilizer in all my plants. (some are just normal garden flowers so those are okay) I'm not sure exactly how long it has been there. I've only had the new Sarr for 5 days, but the other two has been outside since February. My landlord fertilized the lawn 2-3 weeks ago so that is probably when he fertilized them. It's the kind of fertilizer that looks like gravel or perlite and dissolves when it gets wet. It has rained a lot here lately, so scooping it out was pretty much impossible. I got some, but most of it just mixed with the soil.
I have just finished re-potting all three plants, removing all the soil around the roots in a bowl of water, rinsing them off under running water, rinsed the pots and trays and re-potting them in fresh soil. I use a coir/perlite mix which is pretty much the only thing I have available. I then watered them thoroughly and they are currently outside in cloudy weather in ca 15 degrees Celsius. I have no experience with this kind of situation and I'm really afraid of losing my plants. (which are pretty much impossible to get here. The two Sarrs I have are the only ones I have come across in my 5 years of growing.)
So if anyone out there has any tips or advice on what I should do I would greatly appreciate it. I am of course going to talk to my land lord about it, but I think I will wait until my burning fury fades a bit. Please help me!