Compacted and Hydrophobic Potting Mix

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Sometimes the watering problem is not your schedule. It is the way the potting mix has aged. A pot can look watered because liquid passed through it, while the middle of the rootball remains dry. Another pot can stay wet because old mix has collapsed into a dense, airless mass. Both problems begin in the same place: the root environment no longer accepts and releases water in a useful way. Learning to spot compacted and hydrophobic mix keeps you from blaming the leaves for a problem hidden in the pot.

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Compacted and Hydrophobic Potting Mix