Is lazy flowerpot (self-sucking flowerpot) suitable for raising watercress green?

With the improvement of living standards, more and more friends grow flowers and grass, but many of them have no experience in growing flowers. When they bought fresh and lovely flowers, they died soon. Many friends live in buildings, and most of the activities of planting flowers and grass are carried out indoors.

Planting flowers requires flowerpots. There are many kinds of flowerpots in the market, including ceramics, cement, plastics, earthenware, purple sand, bamboo, stone and so on. , diverse materials and styles. However, in order to grow flowers well, it is necessary to have bottom holes in most cases, and even many flowerpots have holes on the side for drainage and ventilation. After watering the flowers, excess water will flow out of the nostrils, which will pollute the room. Watering the flowers is also a very troublesome thing.

Lazy flowerpot

In this context, smart merchants invented a flowerpot, which can not only reduce watering, but also not easily cause pollution, which is what I want to say today, self-priming flowerpot, also called "lazy flowerpot".

Many novice flower lovers have the experience of planting flowers and plants with lazy flower pots. Most of the flowers and plants planted in this flowerpot are planted by merchants, and they are sold in pots, and the price is relatively expensive. When the flowers and plants are just bought back, they are bright and lovely, but they are not preserved for a long time, ranging from half a year to more than a month. Flowers and plants will wither, their leaves will turn yellow and eventually die. When I pulled it out, I basically died of rotten roots. Why on earth is this? Cut a big Wang. Tell me.

Copper money grass

A watertight flowerpot device is arranged outside the self-priming flowerpot and nested with the planting pot. The bottom of the planting basin is connected with the bottom of the outer basin by cotton thread, and the outer basin is filled with clear water, and the water in the bottom basin is continuously absorbed by using the "capillary absorption principle" of cotton thread. For the substrate in the planting basin, the water is constantly lost to support it, which leads to the long-term "water saturation" state of the planting substrate, that is, the whole root of the flower plant is soaked in water for a long time. It is equivalent to half water and half soil to grow flowers.

But the roots of most flowers and plants need to breathe oxygen, and there is very little oxygen in the water. The roots of most flowers and plants can't breathe oxygen from water at all, but also need the dry-wet cycle of soil to achieve the goal of healthy and rapid growth.

wild rice stem

Personally, I think that the self-suction basin is "useless" for flower cultivation besides being beautiful, hygienic and "lazy". In addition to being able to raise aquatic plants such as green radish, water lilies and bamboo, it can be said that it is completely unsuitable for growing flowers and grass.

Copper grass and bamboo originally grew at the junction of rivers and banks, and they can grow in water and soil, but the soil must be kept moist for a long time. The basic conditions of half soil and half water are most suitable for the growth of copper grass. When most flower lovers plant copperas and bamboos, they will choose semi-water and semi-soil cultivation, that is, use flowerpots or pots without bottom holes to maintain copperas.

Fill the bottom of the flowerpot with soil, then plant copper grass and inject more water. Copper grass and bamboo are particularly fond of water, so the soil in the flowerpot must not dry. Self-priming flowerpots just provide such environmental conditions, so self-priming flowerpots are especially suitable for planting green radish and bamboo.

Wanlian

Some flower lovers may say, I have planted flowers and plants with self-priming flowerpots now. Self-priming flowerpots have such a big defect. If you have planted flowers and don't want to change pots in a short time, what should you do? Of course, the solution is not impossible, but it is more troublesome.

That is, every time you add water to the bottom basin of the self-priming flowerpot, try to add as little as possible, and don't add it to the standard line, so that the water in the bottom basin has long been sucked dry. Don't add water after the basin is filled with water. When the soil is almost dry, add a little more water. The drying time may depend on the environmental conditions at that time, such as temperature, ventilation and the types of flowers and plants.

Flowers that like to wet the soil, such as Anthurium andraeanum, Anthurium andraeanum, Dendrocalamus, Rhododendron, etc., can wait until the soil is half dry before adding a small amount of water. If you plant plants that like to dry, such as succulents, longevity flowers, Chinese rose flowers, hibiscus, hyacinthus orientalis, Zhu Dinghong and other plants that grow ball games, you can wait until the soil in the basin is completely dry before watering.