What are signs of overwatering house plants?

Yellow dropping leaves. Always check the soil before watering by touching the soil, if wet wait if dry to touch then water. You can also purchase a gadget to measure the wetness.

What are signs of overwatering house plants?
Overwatering rots the roots so in some ways drought injury looks similar. No roots, no water uptake.





Generally overall yellowing and leaf drop is overwatering. The soil will be wet all the time.......or there's no/insufficient drainage from the pot so the water is backing up into soil.





The soil may be stinky from anerobic decomp.





Too much water and not enough light causes oedema or corky spots to appear on the leaves of some plants.





General yellowing may also be spider mite damage, but you should be able to feel them as "dusty leaves" or even see the critters....they are nearly microscopic. Sticky leaves I'd be looking for larger critters such as aphids. Misc lumps or fuzzy bumps could be scale or mealybud.......all these pests are sucking insects, sucking the life out of your plants.





Too little light willl also cause yellowing and leaf drop. Too much light the leaves will blanch before dropping.





So think back........does the pot properly drain? Do you leave the pot in the overfill or remove it with a turkey baster? Do you feel the soil to determine if it needs water or just water by the calendar? Have you fertilized in the last few months? Have you repotted the plant recently? (doing so may have injured roots: no roots/no water) Or maybe it needs more soil, thus bigger pot (no more than 2" larger. )
Reply:if the water is seeping through the bottom or when u tap the dirt water pours up
Reply:I would just water them once maybe twice a week.
Reply:when they start asking for life jackets.....it's time to cut back.