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Irrigation is a difficult task to master, especially if you are a novice. And, being one of the most important, if not the most important, that everyone who has plants must do, mistakes can mean losing them forever.
Therefore, if you have one that is not going through its best moment, take care of her as we are going to explain below, and so you will know how to recover a dry plant 🙂.
What are the symptoms of insufficient or excessive watering in plants?
To know what has happened to the plant, we first have to find out if it is having a bad time due to lack or excess of water. The symptoms are:
- Lack of water: dry tips and / or edges, yellowing, leaf drop, flowers abort.
- Excess of water: the leaves turn yellow and later fall off. The stem can rot.
How to recover dry plants?
Once the problem is identified, it will be time to try to recover it. Let's start by knowing what to do if what happens to you is that you are going thirsty. To do this, we will simply have to put the pot in a tray or container with water until we see that the substrate is very wet.
If, on the other hand, you have problems of excess water, the most advisable thing will be remove the plant from the pot and dry the root bread (root ball) as much as possible, wrapping it with absorbent paper. Then we will leave it like that for 24 hours. The next day we will plant it again in a pot and we will not water it for about 4-5 days. In the event that it has a soft or rotten stem, we will cut it clean with scissors previously disinfected with alcohol and we will treat it with fungicide to eliminate fungi.
You have to know that it is much easier to save a dry plant than one that is drowning, so it will always be better to fall short with watering than to go overboard. Anyway, to avoid problems we must check the humidity of the substrate before watering, for example digging a bit with your fingers, with a digital moisture meter, or weighing the pot once watered and again after a few days (wet soil weighs more than dry soil, so this difference in weight can serve as a guide).