Potted plants won't bloom? The lazy person's watering method makes them grow more and more vigorously with nonstop blooms
A flower enthusiast shared her experience growing African violets, located in the northwest. When she first started growing flowers, she saw how beautiful other people's African violets were and bought a small leaf seedling to grow, but after two years it still barely bloomed, so she gave one to a good friend.
Her friend was rather lazy and just put the flowerpot in a large tray, filled the large tray with water, and added more when it ran out. Unexpectedly, her friend's African violet grew more and more vigorously and even overflowed the pot, blooming nonstop, without adding any fertilizer or repotting or anything.
This flower enthusiast originally watered only after the soil dried, worried that too much water would rot the roots. Later she followed her friend's method, keeping water in the tray and adding water whenever she saw it was empty, and sure enough it really grew more and more vigorously and produced many side shoots, bursting into bloom. Her potting soil mix was peat soil and perlite.
This method reminds me of the "wall-hitting 2.0" rose cutting method, exactly the same idea, with an extremely high cutting success rate and easy rooting, using vermiculite for cuttings, combining soil cutting and water cutting, also by putting the pot in a tray.
What is the principle? I saw my child's "My First Science Experiment Book" at home, and it has an experiment called "Water Climbs Upward."
Applied to soil and water, peat-perlite soil is loose and breathable, and the soil has many small gaps. When the flowerpot is placed in the tray, the water in the tray enters these gaps and slowly moves from bottom to top along the soil. This movement phenomenon is called capillary action.
The weather in the northwest is dry, and this method works very well for African violets. Applying it to other flowers depends on the flower's characteristics and the local climate conditions. If you are interested, why not give it a try too?
Text: Maple Leaf
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