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Why Watering Indoor Plants Matters
Watering indoor plants isn’t just about keeping them alive—it’s about helping them thrive. Overwatering or underwatering can harm your tropical beauties. So why should you care? Because healthy plants bring life to your space. Let’s dive into how you can master this with five simple tips.
How to Water Indoor Plants: 5 Expert Tips
Tip No. 1: Always Use Drainage Holes
Always use drainage holes in your pots. This is the easiest way for you not to overwater your plants. Now one of the most common things is that you forget to water some of your plants. And when you see that the plants are starting to wilt. They’re hanging. They need water. You go over and you water them. But what do you do?
Well, the normal reaction is well, I’ll just give a little bit more because it’s so sad. But what happens then is that that excess water goes down to the bottom of the pot. And where most of the roots are, and they are now standing in water. And this will kill your plants. So by having drainage holes and making sure that the excess water goes out of the pot, you save your plants.
Tip No. 2: Use a Higher Outer Pot
Use a higher outer pot than the inner pot of your plant as you can see here. And add gravel stones. Leica I actually have promise in the bottom of this pot. It really doesn’t matter. Add something to the bottom that raises the inner pot inside of the outer pot like this. This is a fail safe way to make sure that you never have your plants standing in water.
Because when you water this, the excess water will go through the drainage holes in the bottom. And down into the gravel or into the stones in the bottom here. And what you’re actually doing also is that you are inc by having a little bit of water standing here that the plant cannot reach. You’re adding to the humidity around the roots. So that that’s just an added bonus.
Tip No. 3: Check the Soil with Your Finger
How often should you water your plants? Well, the easiest way of answering that question is to use your finger. Check the soil when it’s time to water. Just use your finger. Push it down into the soil like this. When the soil is dry, one to two inches or two and a half to five centimeters down into the pot. Then you know that it’s safe to water again. This applies to most indoor tropical plants.
Tip No. 4: Find a Watering Frequency
So how much water should you give your indoor plots? That is an impossible question to answer. But find a frequency of how often you water that is good for your plant. Use drainage holes. Use your finger to feel the soil when it’s time to water again. But it is our experience that if you find a good frequency. A good schedule. And always give water during that schedule. The plants actually love that. And they flourish and grow like crazy. So find a good frequency depending on how fast your plants are drinking that water.
Tip No. 5: Address Water Quality Issues
If you get problems with your indoor plants where you get brown and yellow tips of the leaves like this. It could be a problem with your water. If your tap water has too many trace minerals such as chlorine, fluoride, or sodium in it. They can cause these types of problems on your leaf tips. What is happening is that they are getting sucked up by the roots.
And they’re transported in the plant. And then they are pushed out to the tips of the leaves here. Where they accumulate. And when there are too many of these trace minerals at the tips here. The cells actually die. And that is what we see here.
Now these trace minerals are in the water because they are helping to clean your tap water. So there are a couple of things you can do about this. Number one, you can take your tap water and just put it in a bucket. A vase or in a watering can. And just leave it in that for at least 24 to 48 hours. By doing that, most of those trace minerals will be evaporating from that water. They will disappear. So then it is safe to water your plants with that water.
Another thing you can do is that you could use distilled water as well. You can also use rainwater or filtered water that has taken away those trace minerals. And of course you can also use bottled water. But that might not be the most environmentally friendly way of doing that.
What You’ll Gain from Watering Indoor Plants Right
Mastering watering indoor plants means lush, vibrant greenery in your home. With drainage holes, smart pot setups, and the right frequency, your plants will thank you. Plus, tackling water quality issues keeps those leaves green and healthy. Start today—your indoor jungle awaits!
