View Single Post
  #8   Report Post  
Old 18-08-2007, 10:30 PM posted to austin.gardening
Omelet Omelet is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Nov 2006
Posts: 1,477
Default Is it possible to overwater succulents?

In article ENtxi.424$jy6.151@trnddc01,
Robert Allison wrote:

I heard an interesting suggestion at a nursery a couple of
years ago. A woman had come in that was not from here (from
the north). She had purchased a couple of cactii and had
question after question for the nurseryman about care of the
cactii. After politely answering far too many questions, he
told her:

Subscribe to the Phoenix newspaper. When it says it rained,
water the cactus.

Not too helpful in this instance, but I thought it was funny.

--
Robert Allison


It's actually not a bad suggestion. ;-)

For succulents, I just let the soil totally dry out between waterings.
Helps to prevent soil fungus.
--
Peace, Om

Remove _ to validate e-mails.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson