What are the consequences of an uncomfortable pot size?

The growth of flowers and plants is a gradual process, watching the weak flower seedlings in their own careful care under the gradual flowering is a delightful process. In the growth of flowers and plants, the right pot is a very important condition, each stage of growth of flowers and plants should be matched with the appropriate size of the pot, which is a sloppy thing.

Azalea (details)

Some people in order to save trouble, in the seedling stage of flowering plants will be matched with a larger size of pots, that can save the trouble of constantly changing pots, in fact, this practice is very wrong. Because small plants planted in large pots will affect the absorption of plant nutrients. Large pots although more soil, but the fertilizer is more dispersed, and the small plant's root system is small, only in the potting soil to occupy the upper part of the position. After each watering and fertilization, the nutrients will gradually precipitate with the water in the bottom of the pot, the smaller root system can "catch" the limited nutrients, resulting in a great loss of nutrients.

Small flowers planted in large pots another disadvantage is that, due to the potting soil is more and deep, the roots of the flowers do not breathe, do not get the normal supply of oxygen, it is easy to produce the phenomenon of root rot.

In addition, larger plants planted into small pots will also grow poorly. Because the pot is small, the potting soil is less, the nutrition is also insufficient, the plant will grow slowly. Moreover, the growth of the plant's root system is limited by the pot and coiled around the walls, which makes it easy to injure the root system during the hot season, thus affecting the growth of the whole plant.

Additionally, not all large flowers need large pots, for those plants with shallow roots, smaller and shallow pots are more suitable for them, such as azaleas. Azalea has a fine root system without a main root, distributed in the middle and upper layers of the potting soil. If the pot is large and there is a lot of soil, then when the upper part of the pot dries out, the lower part of the pot will still be wet. The shallow roots can not absorb water from the bottom of the potting soil, then if watering will occur waterlogging phenomenon, but if you do not watering will be due to drought and leaf withering.

For this kind of flower plants, in the seedling stage to choose and plant crown size of the pot, to the molding of the pot diameter is one-half of the crown of the plant. If you feel that this will make it look top-heavy and unbalanced, then you can put a larger pot on top of the plant.

The right size pot is like a comfortable home for plants, and in a comfortable "home", plants can grow and flourish.