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Questions tagged [watering]

Questions about when, where and how much to water plants, about techniques for watering and about the equipment gardeners use to deliver water to their plants.

Use this tag for questions about watering: when, where, how, and techniques for watering. Use this tag along with a specific plant tag, if your question is on how much to that particular plant or for a watering schedule.

If your question is about over/under watering your plant, leading to yellowing or other symptoms, use the tag along with this.

If the question is on , use this tag along with the appropriate equipment tag such as , , , etc.

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Can I prevent the leaf loss from my fern?

I’ve had this house Fern for around two months, and made every attempt to keep it healthy. It had been put in a slightly larger pot with pebbles at the bottom to help the water drain. I ensure the soil is moist at all times and water about once…
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Can I put a one minute delay on my hose so I don't get wet when the sprinkler turns on?

All I want is a water timer with about a 1-minute delay for those times that I have to run away after starting it and still get wet. Like when I'm ready to go to work and don't want those clothes to get wet.
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What is killing my bell peppers. Holes in leaves and blackened

I live in Montreal Québec and have planted bell peppers in a new raised bed. All was well for two weeks and then the leaves started to cup, develop holes and now are now starting to have black marks on them. I have looked for bugs under the leaves…
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Self watering pot with no hole

I bought myself a little Bonsai the other week from a local gardening place. The Bonsai is in a little 'self watering' pot according to the label (which I have since discarded). Its a normal pot, with another that sits inside it. Much like a lot of…
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Can you use the leftover water from watering one plant to water other plants?

After watering a potted plant, the tray the pot is on sometimes has a significant amount of leftover water in it. It's usually got some soil in it and occasionally gets a light tea color to it. Can that leftover water in the tray be poured into…
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Why is my palm tree not coming back to life?

It's been yellow like this since the winter and no amount of water can make it green. What's the problem here?
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Leaving succulents in the sun for 2 weeks without watering

I'm about to leave for 2 weeks and the days are just stating to become sunny. I have a few succulents on a windowsill (on a south-facing window), and I'm wondering how they'll cope with this. I watered them within the last 4 weeks, but I'm…
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How and how often to water ZZ plant leaf cuttings

I have made 3 leaf cuttings of my ZZ plant and planted the leaves in pots on a window sill. I am confused about the watering of the cuttings. I have read conflicting information and now I don't know if I should mist them, water them very frequently,…
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Spider plant leaves becoming discolored, thin and droopy

I purchased a Chlorophytum Comosum in October 2016. It's 3 or 4 separate plants. I moved it from its 10cm diameter plastic pot into one that's roughly 15 cm and about 20 cm deep, without drainage. When moving it, I just took all of the soil and the…
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Is a self-watering pot viable for indoor gardening in the long term?

I got a big self watering pot with 3 different plants. After some weeks it got some mold (something like this, but I got it earlier) in it and after trying some stuff in the internet I ended up changing the soil to stop the mold from growing. In…
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My cactus is turning brown on top. Is this usual?

I've just bought this cactus and it's turning brown. I'm wondering if it's because I watered it too much or because of the changing weather? (We rarely have cold days here and it's started to get cold this week) or because of other thing???
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Should I heat water first and let it cool before watering in winter?

Winter is approaching. It gets cold here. Cold water. Would the cold water shock the roots of the plants or not?
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Should I water less in Autumn and Winter in Hong Kong?

It is said that we should water less in Autumn and Winter. However in Winter, our hands and face become very dry. Doesn't this indicate a low relative humidity and that water will dry out faster?
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Why don't hydroponic systems suffer from constant root rot?

We are cautioned against keeping soil (and, as a result, the plant roots) constantly wet in order to avoid rot and fungus from harming the plant. I can understand why ebb and flow systems would have some resistance, but why don't raft tanks and NFT…
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Do just-repotted plants really need to wait for days before watering them? Why?

I have read that for plants that have been just re-potted you have to wait some days. For the Aloe Vera in particular, I have seen some saying to wait for 2 days and others 2 weeks. I just repotted it so that the soil was special for cactus as the…
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