Over watering or under watering?

[raffaelbaer]

If I can speak about my first years, I was mainly overwatering but also over fertilizin => fixed it by using organic fertilizer, and weekly chemical fertilizer, checking and knowing in which soil my trees are in, and for trees that are in unknown soil, checking the wetness of the soil.

 

[PastryBaker]

Thanks for all the replies.
I have tried the chopstick, but I didn't leave it in. I will try the skewer and leave it in. I water in the morning around 7:30am. And it is pretty cool. Sometimes it is a bit hard to tell if the stick is cold or damp. That also happened when I would stick my finger in.

 

[ShadyStump]

Thanks for all the replies.
I have tried the chopstick, but I didn't leave it in. I will try the skewer and leave it in. I water in the morning around 7:30am. And it is pretty cool. Sometimes it is a bit hard to tell if the stick is cold or damp. That also happened when I would stick my finger in.

I have the same problem, that's why I tend to touch it to my lips. Seems dirty to some, but I've eaten allot worse than dirt. LoL I wouldn't do it too close to fertilizing.

 

[PastryBaker]

I have the same problem, that's why I tend to touch it to my lips. Seems dirty to some, but I've eaten allot worse than dirt. LoL I wouldn't do it too close to fertilizing.

Thanks. I was raised on a tobacco farm, so I have eaten plenty of dirt.

 

[Emanon]

Unless you work next door to a Thai restaurant and eat there way too often like I do

I was under the impression that you don't really eat Thai food with chopsicks or, at least, Thai people don't. Am I wrong?

 

[The Barber]

I was under the impression that you don't really eat Thai food with chopsicks or, at least, Thai people don't. Am I wrong?

No clue, may just be Americans that do oddly enough lol

 

[Peter/Chang’s/Nebari/]

I’m sure it’s been said but just to repeat it.

Using pots with drainage holes is the single most important thing any hobbyist can do to keep their plants alive.

When people tell me “I can’t keep any plant alive” or “everything I look at dies” I ask them if the pot had holes in the bottom and 93% of the time (completely made up, but it’s close) the answer is no.

 

[ShadyStump]

I’m sure it’s been said but just to repeat it.

Using pots with drainage holes is the single most important thing any hobbyist can do to keep their plants alive.

When people tell me “I can’t keep any plant alive” or “everything I look at dies” I ask them if the pot had holes in the bottom and 93% of the time (completely made up, but it’s close) the answer is no.

We're all making funny faces because it's a no-brainer, but he's not wrong. How often have we seen it here when someone pops up with their first mallsai? It SHOULD go without saying, and yet we all have had to learn it and say it.

 

[PastryBaker]

I was just putting holes in terra cotta pots that didn't have any for my orchids. I was surprised the pots didn't have them. They were 3" pots.