Plants are great landscaping products for a beautiful environment. Whether it’s the flowers in your balcony, or the sweet and fresh tomatoes in your garden… Plants bring freshness and comfort in the place. However we all do mistakes from time to time when looking after our plants. The first of these mistakes is overwatering them. When we overwater our flowers, they become unable to exchange gas, including oxygen, or absorb nutrients. What’s interesting is overwatering is a mistake more commonly made than underwatering. If you are in such a situation, do not worry. There is a solution. In this article we will tell you what you need to do if you overwater your plants. We hope that we will be able to save your green friend together.
Move the Plant Away From Sunlight
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• Move the Plant Away From Sunlight
• Choose Your Pot Carefully
• Look at the Color of the Soil
• Soften the Roots
• Wait for Some Time Before Replanting the Plant
• If Your Pot Does Not Have Drainage Holes, It’s Time to Get a New Pot
• Get Rid of the Moss
• If the Roots are Rotting, It’s Time to Clean Them
• Get Your Plant to Its New Home
• Spray Water On Its Leaves
• Do Not Water the Soil Until the Upper Part of It is Nearly Dried
• Do Not Apply Any Fertilizer Before Seeing New Offshoot In Your Plant
• When You See an Offshoot In Your Plant, Apply Fertilizer Twice While Watering
• When Your Plant Heals Completely, Apply Fertilizer when Watering Every 7 to 10 Days
The first thing we think of is to dry soil under sunlight. But it’s wiser to have it dry in shade. Because plants use less water in shade. Your plant is already dehydrated because its roots are rotten, and leaving it under the sun will damage its leaves even further. If your plant’s leaves are in light green color or pale, this is a sign that your plant is overwatered. In addition, if the offshoot is not green, but in a brownish color, this also indicates that your plant is being overwatered. You can start by pulling your pot into shade.
Choose Your Pot Carefully
Pots bring a unique kind of energy and style to our homes with different kinds of colors and looks. However, not all pots would be appropriate for our plants. To see whether your pot is suitable, just turn it around and look under it. If it has drainage holes underside, then it’s good to plants in it. Otherwise your plant won’t be able to discharge surplus water. Water gradually accumulating in the pot will choke the roots of your pot.
Look at the Color of the Soil
Your soil will give you many clues about your plant. If the soil in the upper parts of the pot is in the shades of brown, it means that you have a healthy living environment. If your soil is in greenish shades, this indicates that you are overwatering your plant. Green moss, which love lots of water, will have settled in your pot. This situation calls for a soil change. If your plant is withered and is not producing offshoot anymore, this is another sign that it is dying due to overwatering.
Soften the Roots
When your plant starts to pale due to overwatering, you should remove it from its pot and keep it out for some time. Removing a plant from its pot requires finesse, but there is an easy way to it. When you lightly tap the edges of the pot, the roots of your plant will shake and soften up. Then you can gently hold the upper side of the soil or the plant and pull it out of the pot.
Wait for Some Time Before Replanting the Plant
When you separate the plant from its soil, you can put it on a grill grid and wait for a few hours or half a day till its roots are dry. By the way you can examine your plant to see whether there is any damage on its roots. Damaged roots are brownish in color. Healthy plants have white roots.
If Your Pot Does Not Have Drainage Holes, It’s Time to Get a New Pot
If your current pot is not good for raising plants and it does not have any drainage holes to discharge surplus water, then it’s time to get a new pot. You can place pebbles or ground plant coat at the bottom of your new pot in order to keep soil from flowing out together with the surplus water, and help your plant more easily discharge surplus water.
Get Rid of the Moss
Gently remove your plant from the greening soil which has moss on it, and dispose of this soil so you’ll never use it for any plants. This will help your plant get a fresh air, and free its roots from moss which always keep its roots damp.
If the Roots are Rotting, It’s Time to Clean Them
If the roots are turning brown from white and started to rot and smell badly, you need to cut off the rotten parts of the roots before replanting. You need to be extra careful in this part. This is vital for your plant and you must make sure that you only cut off the unhealthy or rotten parts from the roots.
Get Your Plant to Its New Home
Use a stylish and healthy pot, a shaded location and brand new soil for your plant. Properly cover your plant’s roots with soil. It’ll be thankful to you forever.
Spray Water On Its Leaves
Especially when the weather is hot, we feel the need to water our plants more. We do it because we love our plants, but do not forget that too much water, just like too much love, is harmful. Some water which we spray onto our plant will meet its watering needs without choking it.
Do Not Water the Soil Until the Upper Part of It is Nearly Dried
Do not water your plant before making sure that it really needs water. First, check whether its soil is dry. If it is nearly dry, pour in a little water. Do not wait for the soil to completely dry, this might put your plant into shock. To prevent drained water from splashing around, we recommend using a pot tray.
Do Not Apply Any Fertilizer Before Seeing New Offshoot In Your Plant
Your plant will only be able to absorb and utilize the nutrients in the fertilizer when its back healthy again. If you add fertilizer to the soil of a plant which has not yet rehabilitated, there is a chance that you burn the roots which are trying to hold on to life. So be patient and wait till your plant gains its shine again.
When You See an Offshoot In Your Plant, Apply Fertilizer Twice While Watering
Just like a person who has just rehabilitated, your plant needs more amount of attention and nutrients than normal. To cater to this, when you see the first offshoot you must give your plant more attention, and most importantly, love.
When Your Plant Heals Completely, Apply Fertilizer when Watering Every 7 to 10 Days
Now your plant is completely healthy and it’s shining. Still it is important to keep routine maintenance in order to prevent your plant from returning to its old and unhealthy days. You can keep your plants happy by following our clues in this guide.
If you are still having problems due to overwatering despite everything, you can buy a humidistat from the Internet or garden products stores. When you press a humidistat to soil, it’ll tell you the dryness rate of it. So you can easily learn whether the soil needs watering.
Do not forget, even if they don’t move, plants are alive and they have their needs too. Some water, some sunlight, some fertilizer and some love… We wish you healthy and happy days together with your plants.