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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
@smeash & @sirdoofus When you say submerge, you mean take 'em out of the planters and submerge the roots and foliage? I'd be afraid the palm tree seedlings might not take it so well... I suppose the fittest will survive. How long before you noticed them come back?
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I submerge the whole thing, pot and all, so it is completely underwater. I have never had any plant suffer because of it, and in fact, the last one I subjected to this treatment was a succulent which I forgot about and left submerged for about 36 hours .....totally fine.
Because I don't like leaving a lot of potting mix in my bathtub or utility sink, I will sometimes, not always, use something like tinfoil or plastic bags, with holes, to hold it in the pot without inhibiting the drenching of the planting medium.
I have done this to a reasonable variety of plants and never, ever had a problem. So far it hasn't failed to work and the plants have always been just fine afterwards, as if they hadn't been through an ordeal at all.
