Should you bottom Water your Cacti ?
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Should you bottom Water your Cactus Plants ?
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Should you bottom Water your Cactus Plants ?
I also think, in my opinion, that its much quicker to water from the top. You also dont have to worry about any cross contamination. Because if you have a large collection, and you bottom your plants, you most likely group them together when watering to save time. And sometimes, when you group things together, they share everything..... including pests and disease.
Your echinopsis subdenudata looks amazing, Lyn! Plump, healthy, and filling the pot with lots of growth.
Have a fantastic week Lyn and Hans! 🌞❤️✌️🌵😊 From Bennie 😎
So happy you love the wonderful Echinopsis subdenudata Bennie :-D it is desperate for a repot haha but its nice and plump and will be able to go through the winter well and I will be repotting it next spring, and so true pests especially root mealy bugs can spread to plant to plant when grouping plants together, thanks so much Bennie for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
I water my Copiapoa from below as some of them have a bloom that would get washed off by overhead watering. In habitat they only get 3mm of rain a year so they've not evolved for a drenching. Hope you and Hans have a lovely evening Lyn 😊😊🌵🌵
Thats fantastic you bottom water your Copiapoa Ziggy :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you and Jackie lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Hans and me for a terrific sunny Tuesday XXXX
Lovely and interesting video Lyn! Thanks for the tips and information on watering cactus plants from the bottom. I do water a few of my plants from the bottom! Have a great evening my friends Lyn and Hans! Lots of love and happiness!
So happy you loved the video about bottom watering cacti Sylvia :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a fantastic afternoon XXXX
Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing cactus plants lovely collection
thanks so much Jillian for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
Very interesting video Lyn! 👏👏👏Thank you for sharing with us! Have a beautiful week! 🌺❤🥰🏜🌵🌞
So happy you loved the video Elda :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Albania for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
I usually water from the top. I only water from the bottom if the soil is too dry and the water runs past the soil. Then i might soak it. But i like to water from the top and let it wet the soil and run out the bottom to help wash out salts from building up from fertilizer & from minerals in our water. Thanks for sharing Lyn!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, to across the emerald isle, have a wonderful week ahead!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌴🌷🍀💐🪴🌿🌹🌳🌸🌱🌾😃👍
Thats fantastic you prefer to water from the top too Clyde :-D and it always feels more therapeutic to water from the top too haha, its a scorcher of a hot day today and beautiful hot sunny weather we are having in U.K and Ireland at last after July and August being so grey and rainy haha, thanks so much Clyde for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb and all the pets and plants all lots of love and happiness and PEACE, LOVE, PLANTS and PLANT POWER to Morris Park for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX
Thanks Lynn, it's always great to hear your advice and just as satisfying when I totally agree from my own experience 🌵💚♥️🌵💚♥️🌵💚♥️
So happy you loved the video Tony :-D and that you agree from your own experience too, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
Excellent video, Lyn. I personally don’t bottom water, I actually find watering plants quite therapeutic lol. Also I like to give each a plant a once over and a clean as I’m watering, too. Thank you for sharing with us as always, Lyn. Have a wonderful day and new week from Edith & myself to you and Hans ❤️🌵☀️🌸🌺🌼🏜
So happy you loved the video Daz :-D haha yes it really is so therapeutic to water plants, I always feel this wonderful calmness wash over me when I am watering them, and watering from the top feels like we are giving the cacti a wonderful shower and washes off dust and helps keep the pesky beasty spider mites at bay, the weather is incredible and yesterday was a scorcher and another hot sunny day today and good weather forecast for the rest of this week too, YAY :-D thanks so much Daz for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to England and Singapore for a super sunny Tuesday XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon Another lovely day here, too. Yesterday was close to 30c and tomorrow could be close to the UK record for September. This fine weather is meant to last right into the weekend, too. So I’m watering all the plants this week haha ❤️🌵☀️🌸🌼🌺🏜
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Thx so much Lynn! Definitely helps me I would only water from bottom when I can't from the top thx so much. 🙏🏻💚🌵🌱
So happy you found the video helpful and thanks so much again for the video request, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
I always water from the top, if you've noticed, I don't even put saucers on the cacti because they're outside, but in winter they hibernate inside and water very rarely. Nice video Lyn.
So happy you enjoyed the video George :-D I have given all my Desert cacti their last watering of the year last night, its so hot and sunny and a heatwave in Ireland, thanks so much for your awesome friendship and comments and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Moldova from Hans and me XXXX
Thank you Lyn much appreciated 👍👍❤️
thanks so much Heather for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
You're guidance is always so appreciated Lyn. I've heard it said to water all kinds of ways. So confusing. I feel I've got more direction now.
It really can be confusing with all the different info online about watering, and so happy that the video has given you more direction, thanks so much Marie for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
Thank you for this informative video Lyn! You gave me the advice a while back about bottom watering. I had a cactus that took up the whole pot and you kindly guided me to a solution I had not thought of. This video gave a lot of details about bottom watering; how much to water and ways to check the water level. My thoughts now are to pot up. I do prefer to water from the top. Thank you for this wonderful video and sending you and Hans peace, love and Healthy Cactus and Succulent Power for an awesome evening and a Wacky and Wonderful upcoming week from your friend in Georgia! I tried to keep this comment clean hence no bottom watering jokes! 😮
hahahahahaha with trying to keep the comment clean with no bottom watering jokes haha, and so happy you enjoyed the watering bottom video haha and found the video informative :-D and thats fantastic you prefer to water from the top too, thanks so much Jeff for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and wonderful and wacky bottom watering CACTUS PLANT POWER hahahaha to Georgia for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX
I don't bottom water my cacti, I used to do it with some of my succulents, though. It took too much time when my collection has expanded. Great video.
Thats fantastic you prefer to to water too, and so happy you loved the video, thanks so much Magda for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a hot and sunny Tuesday XXXX
During the summer growing season, I do the dunk and soak watering process. I rarely water from the bottom.
Thats fantastic you do the soak and dunk method Dave :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
Thank you for this video! Great advice as usual! 💖🌵 XXXX
So happy you loved the video and advice Vera :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
Wow , I was going to ask you about this 😂 thank you so much for this incredible video❤
Thats brilliant that this video was perfect timing for you :-D thanks so much Kamlasen for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
Thanks a bunch, Lyn 🤩 Good to know that you can if there's no other way watering from the top.
So happy you enjoyed the video Luna :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday today XXXX
Thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍❤ you have an awesome channel. I have several lophs that I have only watered from the bottom and they are doing great. I'm going to take your advice and water from the top next time. I was always worried about getting the cactus itself wet. Thanks again for the awesome videos 🌵🐈⬛
So happy you love the videos and channel Johnny, and so happy you love Lophs too, they really are awesome cacti, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX
Hi Lyn😊🙌Great video, and good job explaining how to water🤲🌟
So happy you loved the video Newman :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Japan for a wonderful evening ahead XXXX
Thanks for another great video.
Nice that you too prefer to top water.
I have tried bottom watering a few times but find it too time consuming even for a collection as small as mine
I still have to bottom water a few plants that have filled their pots.
So happy you loved the video Ted :-D and bottom watering really can be so time consuming but perfect for the plants that have filled their pots, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX
Thanks for taking the time to do this. It came up as a discussion after your last Q&A video and so this was very useful. You mention the roots are 'stringy' when you water from below; why is that a 'bad' thing? Do they break more easily when you repot? TIA. Nick
Hi Nick :-D yes I notice that cacti that are bottom watered produce much more sensitive stringy roots and they break away very easily when removing them from their pots, thanks so much Nick for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
I bottom water mine.. Giving them one last drink at the end of October before the winter resting period starts!
Thats fantastic you bottom water yours Michelle :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX
Alot of good information I have a question when should you start winterize your greenhouse have a great day my friends across the blue waters
So happy you loved the info Gary :-D I start to winterise my greenhouse from late October/early Nov, but I stop watering all of the desert cacti from mid sept to allow them to be fully dry in their pots before the cold winter arrives, thanks so much Gary for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
I'm a proud bottom waterer
haha Alex :-D thanks so much for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Philly for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
I currently don't have any cactus. Aloes and Jades and holiday cactus. Devout bottom waterer. I find the soil is more evenly saturated and just makes it a lot easier. Basically just put in four plants at a time, fill the sink up to about half way up the largest pot and leave it for about 20-40 minutes. After that empty out the sink and the trays of excess water move onto the next. Not sure if I'll do the same when cactus get into the mix. The only plant that I water from the top is my rubber plant, and that's mainly because it needs to be watered more frequently than the others.
That sounds like you have a fantastic watering with your Aloes an Jades and holiday cacti, and thats fantastic you let them soak up the water and then empty out after 20-40 mins, I notice my big old Rubber plant is a thirsty one too haha, thanks so much Lawrence for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
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thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
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I sometimes water from the top and sometimes from the bottom. I like to soak about 10 plants at one time by sitting them in a tray of rainwater. I then walk away for a number of minutes to do other things. When I water from the top, it does not take less time. I don't like to water them through and worry about the extra water they are sitting in, so I pick each plant up and let it drip where it won't hurt anything. When I have the plant in my hand, I can then make sure the water is going all around the pot, I can go fast or slow, I can go around once or twice. I use a narrow mouthed watering can. Isn't one reason some water from the bottom to encourage deep roots all the way to the bottom? Usually the roots are most robust toward the bottom, but I never thought of them as stringy. I thought your answer to the question was going to be there is no right or wrong way, but if one never heard of bottom watering, the inclination would be to water from the top, just like rain. Thanks for your point of view!
Thats fantastic you water from the top and sometimes the bottom too Terry :-D and it sounds like you have a fantastic watering regime with your plants, yes I have heard that some growers water from the bottom to encourage more deeper roots, I notice that it seems to make the roots stingier and much finer on mine, thanks so much Terry for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX
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thanks so much David for your wonderful awesome support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER and have a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
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Hi Lyn, love the video, I'm the same as you, I top water all of my lot ha ha xxx❤️❤️❤️
Thats brilliant you love to top water your plants too Jane :-D and so happy you loved the video, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Cheshire for a hot and sunny Tuesday today XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon hi Lyn, love to you and Hans too. Hope you are coping with the heat, I'm finding it too hot, need it to be sunny but cooler as well. Take care, Jane xxx❤️❤️❤️
@@janecarter3583 haha i am the same too with the heat, years ago I loved it the hotter the better, but now at my age ( menopause haha ) I can't take the heat anymore, I have a lot of jobs I want to do in the polytunnel but have to wait until the temps cool down, although the cacti are absolutely loving it and I am so happy they are getting their sunbathe to get them through the winter, and I am able to sit in the shade in the front garden as its so much cooler haha XXXX 🤣❤❤❤❤🥰🍹
@@desertplantsofavalon hi Lyn, oh yes I sympathise with you 100%, im still on the peri menopause, but have the symptoms, hot flushes etc, we will get there in the end ha ha. Good for you sitting in the shade, we have ceiling fans in our living room, I'm sat here with John at the moment, whilst the fan is whizzing round ha ha. Winter will be here before we know it, but fingers crossed all of your plants will be OK xxx❤️❤️❤️
@@janecarter3583 haha yes I am 4 years post meno now and feeling soooooo much better than when I was in peri, I still get the hot flushes but so much less now, the worst symptom for me in peri and the first year into post meno was the awful anxiety and feelings of dread every day and dizziness and fatigue both mental and physical and total brain fog haha for absolutely no reason at all except for damn hormones, it was especially bad in the morning as I would wake up with it but it used to ease off as the day went on, thankfully thats all gone now and back to my normal self except for mild hot flushes but a million times better, I actually feel so much calmer and at peace in myself now than before meno, my poor late Mum had me at 45 when she was going through peri, she said having to bring up a young child and having to cope with Meno was tough but she did it, I have no idea how she coped bless her, my two older sisters said poor Mum was like a zombie, have a brilliant fantastic Friday ahead XXXX ❤😍🥰❤❤❤❤❤
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I have this issue with two of my aloes that are spilling over the rim of the pots, making it difficult to water from the top. Those I kind of have no choice but to bottom water. I think for the most part I top-water my cacti, they are all so small anyway so plenty of room. I had been worried though about top watering especially in active growing season that with top watering, water would flow through but not fully saturate the substrate, leaving dry pockets. Is this what we want for cacti? I know in native habitats, they have shallow roots to take advantage of any rain that comes quickly as possible.
I have to bottom water a few of my Aloes and other Succulents too as they are overhanging their pots haha, the good news with cacti is they can manage quite well if the water doesn't fully saturate the substrate as they have tiny root hairs from their main roots that are very good at taking up moisture even from the top of the substrate, I sometimes have to give my Cacti a second top watering a few hours alter especially with their first watering in the spring, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle XXXX
I disagree with what you are saying about watering from the top because in my opinion, I think that this method can cause rotting around the neck of the plants. Bottom watering encourages stronger root growth because the roots are having to search for the water. I grow a wide range of houseplants, everything from ferns and jungle plants right up to cacti and succulents and I bottom water all of them. One final thought for you to consider is that top watering encourages the breeding and spread of fungus gnats.🌵😁
Thanks so much Craig for sharing your info and experience with bottom watering, and thats fantastic you have wonderful success with watering your plants from the bottom, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX
In my opinion I am not a fan of bottom watering, it is too intense.
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX