I am so bad to over water. I try, I know I do it, I just think they have got to be thirsty. I did well this year and almost all of my cuttings made it through the winter. I do have a shelf with 4 "Didn't Quite Make Its" Just waiting to be trashed, the cuttings have long since rotted just little pots of soil left. Today I saw little leaves popping out of the soil in two of the pots. Those little brugs are trying to grow. :~)) Some one must have told them it is almost spring. Probably didn't hurt that when the cutting rotted away I QUIT watering.
Just when I gave up!
I have had that happen too, Betty. A nice surprise, isn't it?
MY.. then there is still some hope... I'd a few .. .lovely rooted cuttings.. that were doing so well potted up... but then death.. or was it.. I guess I should have a dead and a newly dead shelf... I wonder if reading to them from the Egyptian Book of the Dead helps... perhaps bring them back from the other side.. spritual reawkening...
My coment has always been if you are having trouble overwatering them... you just don't have enough plants...... I can't sem to keep up woth my watering as it is... much less to overwater... but now I have a paid assistant..for work... and we start our day here ... watering ...spraying.. picking up leaves and flowers.. rearrangeing themunder the lights.. so now for the first time.. I too can overwater ... and do... I've got to instruct better on how to skip some of them also.. the remedy IF i can notice it in time.. is into the window.. in the sundhine with them...
Betty... does your shelf with the dead plants now sprouting from below..get direct sunshine?
Gordon
Hi Gordon
The "Shelf of death" gets no direct sun. It's really the top of my potting bench in the green house. There is plenty of light but no direct light on the pots. It is also the warmest most humid place in there (right over the sinks and the highest shelf in the GH. Maybe time to make the shelf bigger.
The problem can't be not having enough plants. I fixed that problem, just ask DH. I have enough plants for me and about twenty normal people.
In the Fall when I set up my little GH/potting house for winter. I put the plants that really don't deal with being overwaterd in the back, where it is almost impossible to get to them. I walk around the outside of the GH and look in the windows to see if anything is wilted, only then do they get a drink. It's the ones that I can see and touch that I have this "Need" to water. LOL
Betty
Good news Betty!