Excessive Watering in Houseplants
Excessive watering is damaging for most plants using equipment that indicate whether it is dry, moist or wet. Without such sophisticated equipment there is still the appendage known as a thumb with which one can test the moistness of the compost at the top of the pot. Excessively dry compost will tend to shrink away from the side of the pot and is a condition that few plants will tolerate, so care must be taken to ensure that the compost does not dry out too much between visits with the watering-can. Plants which are known to require a lot of water, such as aphclandra, Azalea indica and hydrangea, should be watered by plunging their pots in a bucket of water and allowing them to remain until all the air bubbles in the compost have escaped.
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