If you can overwater potted plants in soil, then how come cut flowers don’t drown in vases filled with water?
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Potted plants have roots, and if the roots are waterlogged they can end up rotting and they die. A cut flower has no roots, so being in water helps them to stay “alive” for longer.
Potted plants have roots, and if the roots are waterlogged they can end up rotting and they die. A cut flower has no roots, so being in water helps them to stay “alive” for longer.
Cut flowers are already dying – they’re just kept in water to slow down that process. Plants in soil are living, and need healthy roots to continue to do so. Too much water causes the roots of living plants to rot.
Potted plants have roots, and if the roots are waterlogged they can end up rotting and they die. A cut flower has no roots, so being in water helps them to stay “alive” for longer.
Cut flowers are already dying – they’re just kept in water to slow down that process. Plants in soil are living, and need healthy roots to continue to do so. Too much water causes the roots of living plants to rot.
Cut flowers are already dying – they’re just kept in water to slow down that process. Plants in soil are living, and need healthy roots to continue to do so. Too much water causes the roots of living plants to rot.
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Plants “breathe” through roots (their leafs are for photosynthesis), so if the soil is so waterlogged that air can’t get to the roots, they “drown”. Cut plants in water are on “life support”. Think of a person who is only surviving because of an IV. After a time, the lack of necessary nutrients and such will still kill them because not everything can be supplied intravenously. That’s why plants that can will start to grow roots, in an attempt to draw in the missing nutrients. But even then, they will eventually drown if not move to proper soil.
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