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Container overwatering
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Posted by rvermar WA (My Page) on Fri, Jul 17, 09 at 20:25
| Well now I have done it (again)! I set my spider plant, happy in its pot, under the sprinkler in the front lawn and FORGOT it!! It was almost floating.
So I drained it as best I could. What else can I do to avoid root-rot? I dare not set it in the sun, or it'll cook (85 today). Darn! I continually kill stuff in containers from overwatering but this time I just forgot the poor thing. Is there anything I can do to save it? |
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RE: Container overwatering
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- Posted by morz8 Z8 Wa coast (My Page) on
Sat, Jul 18, 09 at 0:38
| One overwatering shouldn't damage your plant if you have it in a pot with drainage holes and decent potting mix. Just don't water again until the soil feels dry...poke your finger down in and check. |
RE: Container overwatering
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| When you have left it to drain on a flat surface for a while, before you put it back on its saucer - tilt the pot to let even more water escape - unless your pot has only one central hole. If you put some pebbles in the bottom of the saucer - half to one inch across for each - and place the pot on top of them - there will be improved drainage, plus better air circulation for the roots. So long as you don't have a small plant in a big pot (also known as 'over potting') then the mixture should dry out quite quickly. So long as the plant wasn't desperately dry before you watered, when its roots would have withered and be ready to rot, then one solid soaking won't cause disaster, as morz8 says. |
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