Miracle gro

[Helazbee]

Hi guys,
We bought some plants and also have grown some from seed (pansies, geraniums etc.) They are for the garden but we add some to our torts meals to give her a bit of variety. My wife forgot and fed them with miracle gro. I'm wondering will this flush out eventually? Will I be ok to feed them to her ever?
Thanks in advance

 

[Maro2Bear]

Greetings.

Ive been using MiracleGro on plants fed to our Ms Sully for years now. I wouldn't apply MG today & pick greens tonight, but from what I understand water soluble MG is taken up & used pretty quickly by plants during the growing season. Sooo, just stop your application, continue watering, and all should be perfectly fine. No herbicides or pesticides of course….

 

[Tom]

Hi guys,
We bought some plants and also have grown some from seed (pansies, geraniums etc.) They are for the garden but we add some to our torts meals to give her a bit of variety. My wife forgot and fed them with miracle gro. I'm wondering will this flush out eventually? Will I be ok to feed them to her ever?
Thanks in advance

Miracle grow makes a lot of different products. If it is just plain fertilizer, and not any sort of weed n' feed, or pesticidal concoction, then I agree with Mark that it should be totally fine as long as the tortoise does not have direct access to the actual fertilizer product. Plants grown with plain fertilizers are safe for tortoises. All plants need fertilization, one way or another, to grow.

 

[Tom]

Hi guys,
We bought some plants and also have grown some from seed (pansies, geraniums etc.) They are for the garden but we add some to our torts meals to give her a bit of variety. My wife forgot and fed them with miracle gro. I'm wondering will this flush out eventually? Will I be ok to feed them to her ever?
Thanks in advance

Reading your post again, I left out the info about the store bought plants. All decorative plants are grown with systemic pesticides. This is done to protect our agriculture industry. It take one year for those pesticide to dissipate.