What does "water when dry, water thoroughly" mean for watering flowers? Finally figured it out
More and more flower lovers are growing plants, after all, tending to flowers and plants can lift your mood and bring vitality and color indoors. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced hand, basically everyone understands one principle of growing flowers, and that is "growing flowers is 30 percent about fertilizer and 70 percent about water." Therefore, the importance of watering flowers is obvious.
Watering flowers is actually a science in itself. Because if you water poorly, you get yellow leaves and root rot. Many people's newly bought potted flowers die within a few days, and most of them are killed by watering.
I believe many friends, when they first got into growing flowers, saw plenty of watering tips online summed up in four words: "water when dry, water thoroughly." But what does "water when dry, water thoroughly" actually mean? Many people do not understand it, thinking that when the soil surface is dry, the plant needs water, so they water desperately, and as a result, one plant after another at home dies.
When it comes to watering flowers "when dry, water thoroughly," how many flower lovers truly understand what it means?
First we need to learn how to tell whether the soil has dried out completely and whether the soil has been watered thoroughly. Learn to judge these two things, and even if you cannot grow plants very well, at least keeping them alive will be no problem.
The simplest way to tell whether the soil has dried out completely is to stick your finger into the soil. If the soil 3 to 5 cm below the surface of the pot is dry, then it counts as completely dry; this is mainly judged according to the depth of the pot. Of course, in practice, you only need to insert a dry chopstick or twig to judge.
As for watering the potting soil thoroughly, that is even simpler. Flower pots all have drainage holes. When watering thoroughly, once you see water dripping from the drainage hole at the bottom of the pot, it is about thoroughly watered.
Having read this far, I believe many flower lovers have already discovered something: could it be that you misunderstood it before? For most flowers, such as clivia (Clivia miniata), kalanchoe (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana), gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides), potted roses and plants like spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) and asparagus fern (Asparagus setaceus), watering should follow the principle of "water when dry, water thoroughly." Only by watering this way will the plant's roots not suffer from lack of water or waterlogging, which causes root rot. Avoid this problem, and the flowers will naturally grow well.