My children, bless 'em, tend to send their mother plants by post. This is
all very nice, but they (the plants, not the children) tend to come in
glazed pots with no drainage.
I have managed to keep an orchid flowering for three years by filling the
pot (containing bark chips) with diluted feed to the rim and emptying all
the water out after 5 minutes.
However the last pot is huge and also contains three foliage bulbs in peat,
a succulent which died and an orchid in a clear pot with drainage.
Is there a way of watering these without drowning them, or is it just
guesswork?
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Jim S
Tyneside UK
www.jimscott.co.uk