How to revitalise your drooping pot plants.

I read the other day a good hint to spruce up drooping plants. Take some matches and stick them in the dirt surrounding the pot plant. Make sure you bury the head of the match in the soil. Your plant will recover quickly. The phosphorus and sulfer will get rid of the bugs in a safe way and the plant will be able to breathe again. This sounds interesting.

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Certainly cheap and different Hola.

If you give it a go ... please let us know the results.

 

RnR - I'm hoping to try this one as I hate to see some plants, which can be quite expensive, get the droops. The article also said the matches can be used again after the experiment. The article was on Pinterest which has a multitude of handy hints and recipes.

RnR - just buy a box of matches - how cheap are they?  Sorry had to "smile"  .....not being "mean " haha .... I'm going to try it!  

Foxy ... I've got the matches ... but I don't have any drooping pot plants to try the experiment on LOL.

Only got two PPs and they're thriving.

Just curious to see what will happen.

 

haha - sorry - thought you were being "super frugal"  :-) 

Yeah well guess they only droop if you don't water them (or over water them) ..... I have a large indoor palm in my entrance hall ... never sure what to do with it - still alive tho' (well have only had it like 6 months ....give it  time - lol)

Water them!!

We find that if you submerge the entire pot plant / hanging basket in a big bucket (80 rubbish bin), they are always healthy.

Leave them until the bubbles stop, and add some fish type fertiliser to the bucket.

We find that if you submerge the entire pot plant / hanging basket in a big bucket (80 rubbish bin), they are always healthy.

Leave them until the bubbles stop, and add some fish type fertiliser to the bucket.

 Don’t know how much good a few match sticks will do when all you have to do is go to the nursery buy a small bag of  powdered sulphur and sprinkle over the plant leaves when they are dry not wet.

Plants need sulphur to help them resist disease and enable growth.

I wonder how plants cope in the wild where there is noone to sprinkle sulphur over them!

Good question Maggie, maybe this explanation will help. Sulphur makes up more than 3% of the Earth’s mass. About 95% of the total sulphur content of most soils is contained in organic matter. So a plant out in the wild can survive quite well because it’s in its natural environment. However take a plant and put it in a pot in a city or urban environment and you have to add nutrients to keep it healthy, hence the addition of powdered sulphur, or fertiliser that contains sulphur like Yates liquid sulphur.

It also helps to "shower" them every so often to remove all the dust and grime that accumulates on the leaves and soil.

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