{"id":853,"date":"2026-10-29T22:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/care\/little-ruby-soil-and-watering-recovery\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T22:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:19:20","slug":"little-ruby-soil-and-watering-recovery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/care\/little-ruby-soil-and-watering-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Ruby \u2014 Soil and Watering Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bmp-care-article\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Apply a High-Quality Wetting Agent:<\/strong> Drench the soil area around the plants immediately with a surfactant wetting agent like Eco-Wet or a similar product available at retailers like Bunnings Warehouse. This breaks the waxy seal on the sand and allows water to actually penetrate the roots.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Build an Organic Soil Blend Around the Base:<\/strong> Gently rake away the top mulch layer and scrape a ring around the plant. Carefully top-dress and blend in a mix of fine compost, aged sheep manure, and a soil-improving agent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drench with Liquid Kelp\/Seaweed:<\/strong> Mix a dilute solution of a seaweed tonic like Seasol into a watering can and thoroughly soak the entire root zone. This will help ease transplant shock, stimulate new fine root development, and strengthen cell walls.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keep Mulch Clear of the Stems:<\/strong> Ensure your wood chip or bark mulch is kept a few centimetres away from the plant&#x27;s main central stems to prevent collar rot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<section class=\"bmp-care-downloads\">\n<h2>Download or print this guide<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/little-ruby-soil-and-watering-recovery.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Original guide PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apply a High-Quality Wetting Agent: Drench the soil area around the plants immediately with a surfactant wetting agent like Eco-Wet or a similar product available at retailers like Bunnings Warehouse. This breaks the waxy seal on the sand and allows water to actually penetrate the roots. Build an Organic Soil Blend Around the Base: Gently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-853","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"buymyplants_70lkd8","author_link":"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/author\/buymyplants_70lkd8\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Apply a High-Quality Wetting Agent: Drench the soil area around the plants immediately with a surfactant wetting agent like Eco-Wet or a similar product available at retailers like Bunnings Warehouse. This breaks the waxy seal on the sand and allows water to actually penetrate the roots. Build an Organic Soil Blend Around the Base: Gently&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/853\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buymyplants.com.au\/_home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}