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Crusting on the saucer of my pot when I water?

Can anyone help me with this problem.

I have a large red pot that sits on a saucer and I keep getting a yellow crusting on the saucer when I water the plant that sits in there.

I have a feeling that it may have come from the last time I added fertilizer to the pot but that was about 6 months ago. I water the pot plant about once a week and still can't seem to flush out whatever is causing this crusting.

When I water I let the saucer fill up and overflow (it's a fairly big pot) but the excess is spilling on to my deck. If it was nice clean water (like my other pots) then I wouldn't care but whatever the residual is in the water then dries and I am even getting the crusting on my deck as well as the saucer.

It comes off if I scrub with an outdoor brush with water.

Has anyone seen this before?

Update:

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Update 2:

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Update 3:

Could the problem be due to a salt build up?

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago
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