How to water flowers and plants? An introduction to common watering methods

When watering flowers and plants, you should also pay attention to using the right methods. Here are four methods for watering flowers and plants.

1. The saucer-watering method is the opposite of the ordinary watering method. Place the flower pot in a larger basin of clean water so that water moistens the soil through the bottom of the pot. This helps prevent the soil from becoming compacted and has certain benefits for root development, but the salts in the soil will rise with the water and accumulate on the surface of the soil and along the rim of the pot, easily damaging the nearby roots and stems. Therefore, potted flowers and plants should be watered by alternating the above two methods regularly.

2. Sand-column watering method: When potting or repotting flowers and plants, first insert several hollow bamboo tubes or metal pipes into the empty pot, then fill with soil and firm it down, then fill the hollow pipes with coarse sand, and pull out the hollow pipes, so that sand columns form in the pot. The number of sand columns to set depends on the size of the flower pot. Afterward, water only at the sand columns, so that the water spreads evenly through the sand columns into the surrounding potting soil. This method can avoid soil compaction and has no side effects on plant growth.

3. Slow watering method: Bury one end of a strip of cloth in the potting soil, and dip the other end of the cloth into a water basin placed closely beside the flower pot, so that the water can slowly moisten the soil through the cloth strip.

4. Rope-wick watering method: When potting or repotting flowers and plants, bury a water-absorbing rope (a fiberglass rope) at the bottom of the flower pot, spread the end of the rope out at the bottom of the pot, and let the other end extend out through the drainage hole and rest in the saucer under the flower pot. The flower pot is not sitting in the water in the saucer, but is placed on a stand, and the water-absorbing rope uses capillary action to draw water from the saucer into the flower pot.