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title: "Please HELP!!! You need background info for this question, I always…"
description: "Please HELP!!! You need background info for this question, I always check my soil with chopsticks to make sure my soil is completely dry, and I add perlite and…"
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# Please HELP!!! You need background info for this question, I always…

_Kennytheplantgal님이 2024-08-19에 게시함_

Please HELP!!!  
You need background info for this question, I always check my soil with chopsticks to make sure my soil is completely dry, and I add perlite and orchid bark to my soil as well.

The question is, why is only half of my soil drying out recently? The top half is dry but the bottom half will not dry out, it just started happening since i last watered my plants.

## 2개의 댓글

### Kennytheplantgal님이 2024-08-19에 댓글을 남겼어요.

I’ve also poked around the soil mix a bit to loosen it up and still nothing

### eatyacarbs님이 2024-08-19에 댓글을 남겼어요.

could be that your pots are too big and there aren’t enough roots to make use of the water

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