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Originally Posted by Maru777
I never realized how badly I was underwatering because they were still doing perfectly fine, none died, they bloomed, they grew. But once I moved some to SH I realized how the plants should actually look and how fast they should grow by comparison with their bark potted brethren. What a surprize that was  |
Water is the true driving force for growth. Not fertilizer, not additives - water.
- It is the raw material with the greatest mass used. A plant consumes >180 kg to produce 1 kg of mass. (But only 9-10 g of NPK)
- 90-95% of a plant is water, and that’s over and above the amount used to form tissues.
- If water is plentiful at the roots, hormones trigger stomata to be opened, allowing the gas exchange that leads to carbon fixation (i.e., “growth”).
- Then we have to add the water that must be taken up to compensate for transpiration losses.
If you come up with the proper potting medium that allows for copious amounts of moisture without suffocating the root system, once acclimated to the “new normal”, your plants will always to better than if you have to wait for the potting medium to dry out.
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