| KILLING
THEM WITH KINDNESS There’s
no question about it, most people kill their
plants by over watering them; this even includes
the professional plant technicians you see watering
the plants in hotels & malls. A plant can
cling to life a lot longer if it is under watered
than if it is over watered. If the soil of a
plant stays wet all the time and is never allowed
to dry out, oxygen can’t get to the roots
and harmful bacteria start to grow. Without
oxygen the roots develop root rot and die; the
bacteria cause an overall decline in the condition
of the plant. Once you destroy the roots by
constantly drowning them, the plant, as they
say, is history.
I
love the people who contact us & say, “I
water all of my plants religiously, every Saturday
morning. I don’t understand why they keep
dying.” Or even better, how about, “I
water my plants every day and they keep dying.
I guess I’m just not giving them enough
water.”
All
I can say is, when in doubt DO NOT WATER!!!
The
first question everyone always asks is, “how
often should I water my plants?” The very
fact that they group all of their plants into
one category for watering shows that there is
a basic misconception from the very beginning.
The individual watering needs of a plant depends
upon many things: the particular plant variety,
the light and humidity of the room, whether
the container is porous or non porous, the type
of soil, the size of the container in relation
to the size of the plant, how fast or slow the
plant is growing, and even the time of year.
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