your yellow leaves and sluggishness may be due to over-watering, and perhaps poor drainage ... Miracle-Gro is fine for a chemical fertilizer, Ive successfully used it, and nothing else, for over 25 years ... what gives it the bad name is the Miracle-Gro SOIL ... it has 'time-release' chemical 'pills' in it, that take away your ability to control the Ph, etc ... next time, just use a good potting soil, and feed by hand ... everybody usually over-fertilizes anyway ... (before the tree-huggers start squealing, I am gradually sliding over to the organic-nutes, will be using them for blooming soon, for the first time) ... :smokin: