What do you mean by pouring water?

What's the point of watering? In fact, watering means watering plants enough to make the soil absorb water, instead of scooping it up one by one, because sometimes the soil will harden and most of the water will be lost with the cracks, but the real roots will not be watered. The following is a case told by Huayou. Please read the following carefully and remember that it is useless to read only one line at a time. Although the following are examples of succulents, they are also applicable to other plants. Flower friends should draw inferences from one another! Originally, I thought it was a small problem to judge whether the soil was dry or wet, and everyone should learn it. However, the recent communication with Huayou made me realize that if we don't make it clear, or even set a standard, soil moisture may be just like light, which makes us have a deep misunderstanding. A flower friend asked me, what should I do if the Chihuahua leaves melt? When I saw that the soil in the picture was common peat perlite nursery soil, I realized that the water might be wet and stuffy to the roots. I asked him to check whether the soil was still wet, and if it was, he turned the jar upside down to change the soil. He replied that the soil was dry and there was heating at home. Asked me if I wanted to dig it up. At that time, because his environment was relatively dry, I was careless, so I asked him to break off the leaves on the water and observe them again. As a result, another day passed, and he told me privately that Chihuahuas have many leaves and water. I told him to dig it out at once and show me the root. This chihuahua 10 cm is big, with developed roots and short stumps. The most important discovery is that the peat attached to the roots is really wet. This is a very classic case. Huayou inserted a toothpick into a large porous pottery basin to test the soil moisture. In order not to hurt the roots, toothpicks were inserted near the flowerpot, but the flowerpot was much larger than the flowers, and the pottery pot had good air permeability, which led to serious misjudgment. High temperature and low humidity air pottery basin, 7 days without watering, toothpick to test whether the soil is dry. All the evidence shows that the root of meat is dry and breathable, but what is the result? On the contrary. The reason why many people like to use peat is that the roots of meat are intertwined with the fibers in peat, which is beneficial to the growth of roots. For inexperienced flower lovers, these muddy carbon fibers wrapped around the roots are very deadly. Once the roots are entangled with fibers, a closed water storage environment is formed. It's like putting half a bottle of water in a coke bottle. Even if the bottle cap is opened, it will not dry for several months. Although the water surface is in contact with air, the air in the bottle in contact with the water surface is saturated with humidity, so the water basically does not evaporate, and the air at the bottle mouth is close to the humidity outside the bottle, so there is only a slight water loss. Once this environment is formed, it is difficult for the roots of meat to be dry and breathable. To sum up this case, there are several points that everyone should pay attention to. First, the soil problem. The more novice you are, the less you can get the soil planted by fools. Because novices tend to raise some cheap meat first, of course, soil is also cheap broad-spectrum soil. Most of the broad-spectrum succulent soil sold in the market is rich in peat and easy to accumulate water. Those who make good use of peat are the best, and novices should use whole granular soil for planting. Even the dust in granular soil should be screened decisively. Although sifting out dust is not conducive to grasping the soil by meat roots and hairs, it is still quite valuable from the point of view of reducing the suffocation death of meat. The second is the misunderstanding of red pottery basin. Many people on the Internet regard the red pottery basin as a meat-raising artifact. I don't think so. Each kind of flowerpot has its own characteristics. Only when you are familiar with its characteristics can you raise meat well, and not necessarily a certain kind of flowerpot has advantages. In this case, it is because the red pottery basin has good air permeability, and there are four Qian Zhou in the middle. In this environment, due to the hydrophilicity of fleshy roots,

In addition, the outer soil dried too fast, and the toothpick insertion method failed. Although this is not a crime of red pottery basin, it deserves our attention. Therefore, although the concept of dry soil is easy to say, it is difficult to do. If you want to know the dry and wet state of soil by throwing flowerpots, you really need to accumulate experience slowly. You may be thinking that it is difficult to judge when the soil is dry, so it is always easy to judge when the water is completely poured. I won't jump to conclusions. Let's take a look at the following cases together, which will definitely make you understand the meaning of irrigation again. That's a flower friend in Shantou, who is still in public. The temperature and humidity in Shantou from June to February in 5438 were not bad. But in such fine weather, one of her shower heads is out of order. Xiangfulian is an old pile with a flower diameter of 15cm. This is a porcelain basin, deep 18 cm, very beautiful. She told me that Xiang Fu even lost his leaves and asked what to do. She watered them three days ago. I saw that the old leaves on the outer layer of the meat had been consumed, and the leaves in the middle were wrinkled. If I hadn't watered it three days ago, I would have thought that the lack of water had caused the state to deteriorate. I wouldn't give up, so I asked her if she had watered it thoroughly. She told me that every time it was poured thoroughly, the water penetrated quickly. After reading this, you must have been wondering what the problem is. Then don't look down until you have the answer. The real answer is simple. Before watering three days ago, she hadn't watered for about two weeks, and the soil was a little hard. There is a gap between the hardened soil and the flowerpot. When watering, the water flows away along the edge of the flowerpot. So although the water is poured, the meat doesn't drink water at all. This reminds me of an ancient hero drinking. He picked up a big bowl and sprinkled it on his skirt. This way of drinking, you won't get drunk after drinking three or five bowls. This kind of problem often happens to old piles of anemones. Flesh leaves cover most flowerpots. If the remaining edge is too permeable, it will lead to too little watering each time. Generally, greenhouse plants do not avoid leaves, and they are washed directly with a large faucet. This watering method is much more effective than carefully watering along the edge. In a similar situation, I would suggest not taking water as the standard, but slowly pouring a certain amount to give the soil time to absorb. Another kind of watering is over watering. We say that water is permeable. Generally speaking, water just needs to flow out. In this way, the water storage medium in soil can quickly absorb the free water in soil particles. The soil becomes breathable. If watering is continued for a period of time until the medium is full of water, the saturated soil cannot absorb the free water between particles. At this time, even if the whole grain soil is used, the meat is in danger of suffocation. We have defined soil moisture in the last article, so we might as well repeat it here. Wet: The state in which water cannot be squeezed, but it can agglomerate the soil. The soil is very loose, but your fingers can obviously feel the water. The moisture is not obvious to the touch, and the wind can feel cool and dry. You can't feel the moisture, but there is basically no feeling of dust in the soil. Dry: The dust in the soil will fly away as soon as it blows. The above-mentioned supersaturated soil can squeeze out water, which is a wetter state than wet soil. When you water the soil to saturation, it is likely that the water will become water in the next few days. If your soil is dry, it is no different from digging out the meat. Meat lives on moisture in the air. If the air is dry, the root hairs will shrink and die. The meat will go into a dormant state. Waiting for the right time to take root again.