One of the simplest and most obvious summer watering tips

As long as the weather gets a little worse, watering immediately becomes the most difficult thing.

For example, the following questions are classic:

It's cloudy these days. Can you water it?

The highest temperature is 36 ℃. Can you water it?

It's a nice day today. It's going to rain in two days. Can you water it?

There have been showers these days. Can you water them?

If it rains in the next three days, do we have to wait until the rain stops before watering it?

Can 80% of the air humidity be watered? Can 99% be watered?

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This is only a very small part of this kind of problem, if you add different varieties, time on the pot, flowerpots of different materials, flowerpots of different depths. The combination of such problems is absolutely endless.

In the final analysis, all the problems will be reduced to one sentence, that is: in a variety of bad situations, how to water can avoid meat death as much as possible. That's what we're going to talk about today: the most common rule of watering meat.

Before I talk about this, I'd like to ask you a question: what is standard weight (regardless of whether this question is relevant to today's topic, please think about it for 10 seconds).

With regard to standard weight, there are many measures. On this issue, the most official statement is the number of kilograms of weight divided by the square of meters of height, if the number is around 20, then your weight is standard normal.

Another theory is that subtracting 100 from the centimeters of your height and multiplying by 0.9 is the kilogram of your reasonable weight.

But these two methods are often not very effective when used. According to the actual measurement, many people are healthy in terms of numbers, but they are still found to have fatty liver at the time of physical examination. This is obviously a sign of obesity.

Later, I saw such a standard in an article, and I thought it was more reliable than the standard weight mentioned above. What this standard says is that the highest weight standard that happens to be free of extra weight on your abdomen is your best healthy weight.

This standard does not say what weight is standard weight for you, but gives you a measure of healthy weight. Abdominal fat means visceral fat accumulation, if there is no abdominal fat, it means healthy internal organs. This standard is very ingenious, embracing a variety of different situations, so that everyone aims at health, will not lose weight blindly, and has his own standard.

Let's turn back to the question of whether there is a goal-oriented approach to watering in bad weather.

The answer is: yes.

What is the root cause of our fear of watering? It is because too much watering and the lack of air permeability of the soil will cause rotten roots or black rot, right? We never care about watering aquatic plants (such as water lilies) because they don't have the problem of rotting roots or black rot when the water is too big.

So as soon as we say so, our standard of watering will come. If you water it today, it will be dry tomorrow. Are you still afraid of watering the meat? You must not be afraid.

Then let's use the natural drying time of the watered soil to help us measure whether and how much water should be watered.

Before watering, first ask yourself a question: what is the current soil water content? Micro tide? Or is it wet? If you're not sure, you have to find a way to know. A relatively simple way is to prepare a transparent flowerpot (advertisement: there is such a product at the end of the article). Take a look at the transparent flowerpot when you want to know the soil moisture. You can also prepare several empty flowerpots and pour them out when you want to know the soil moisture. Inserting a toothpick is also a reliable way, as long as you don't hurt the root system of the meat.

Knowing the actual humidity of the basin soil, we basically know whether it should be watered or not. If the basin soil is very dry, no matter how much rain it is outside, no matter whether the air humidity reaches 100% or not, we must water it. Neither the rain outside nor the water in the air can replace the moisture in the soil.

When we decided that we should water it, the remaining question was how much water and how to water it.

The reason why we have to consider how much water is to avoid stagnant water rotten roots and black rot, to ensure that the soil is ventilated.

Then the core factor in determining how much water is irrigated is the current drying rate of the soil. The faster the soil dries, the more water can be watered. If the soil dries slowly, it is necessary to water less.

Generally speaking, within 3 days after watering, the soil can be restored to a damp but not wet state, and the amount of watering is appropriate. What is damp but not wet? It is to pick up the soil with your hands and feel the moisture of the soil, but the soil is loose and will not form a lump because of too much water, which is damp but not wet.

The less dry the soil is, the less water will be watered. At 100% air humidity, the soil evaporation almost stops, at this time watering needs to use a small number of ways, slowly infiltrate, so that we do not produce stagnant water after watering. When soil moisture does not evaporate, any excessive watering will hinder soil ventilation for a long time, which is very dangerous.

On the other hand, in areas where the air is relatively dry, even if there are showers every day, as long as the rain stops, the air humidity will immediately decrease, which does not affect soil evaporation. Watering in such an environment is relatively casual.

All right, finally, let's sum up our standards:

We have just broken down the watering problem into two questions: whether or not to water and how much to water.

Whether or not to water has nothing to do with the weather or temperature, as long as the soil is dry, it should be watered. Don't water the soil if it is moist. This judgment is very simple.

How much water is watered only has something to do with the rate of soil evaporation. The slower the soil evaporates, the less it should be watered, ensuring that the soil can return to a moist and non-wet breathable state within 3 days. High humidity, lack of sunshine, poor ventilation or plants blocking the mouth of flowerpots can slow soil evaporation and should be watered less as appropriate.

This is all I want to share today. I hope it will be helpful to all of you.