Beginner Gardening: MY SCHEFFLERA, 0 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Well, I don't think you'd want to OVERWATER any plant because it could cause root rot and fungus diseases. There are many plants that like to be kept real wet and others that need to be on the dry side.

Now, when something says DON'T ALLOW TO DRY OUT ... LOL, I have so many plants and in the summer time it is so hot a lot of things dry out before I can get to them to water them. I think that statement really means that you shouldn't let them go for a long period of time without watering .... don't let them get so dry between waterings that they get so stressed that they can't recover.

Now, if you look at the ground around this Scheff in my backyard, you will see a LOT of yellow leaves! This tree gets water with the irrigation system that is on twice a week but we have been real dry here for a year and this tree has continously had yellow leaves and branches. Down here in Florida so many plants grow monstrous in size. For this area of Florida, this is a smallish Scheff.

p.s. Apologies to everyone who has seen this photo a zillion times!

edited to say: I forgot to add ... plants will do differently for different people depending on the growing conditions in their homes too ... some have very dry conditions with heat in the winter that makes plants dry out pretty quickly. Here in the South where I live, we have so much humidity year round that plants don't dry out as much.

This message was edited Oct 24, 2007 1:19 PM