Indoor plants add color,
texture and heat to the home. They allow year-round use of gardening and can
even improve quality of air. Many houseplants are easy to grow, but
they must be given appropriate care in
order to thrive. Since your plants were probably started
in a greenhouse - grown under ideal conditions - moving them to your
home takes a bit of adjustment on their own part.
Good plant care starts with the selection of a place that can give you the ideal environment for its growth. Important too is to provide the right amount water and lightweight, and maintain the appropriate levels of humidity and temperature, in order to ensure the healthy development of plants.
Watering System
Bottom watering is usually best for pot plants, discouraging disease, and maintaining your potting mix evenly moist. A self-watering pot having a water reservoir in the bottom works well, and, indeed, is the best method to grow African Violets, which don’t like to be handled or splashed. A saucer beneath your pot also works well for bottom watering, for you personally simply pour water in to the saucer and let capillary action pull water up into the pot through drainage holes. You are able to optimize bottom watering by putting a wick of felt or water-conducting cord towards the bottom of your pot when planting, and letting the finish extend down into the saucer to assist move water up in to the potting mix. If you water from overhead, a watering pot having a long, small spout is good for controlling in which the water goes, and keeping it off the leaves of your plant.
Good Drainage
This is the other part of proper watering. Yes, a container might have too much water! There are probably more plants killed with more than watering than from any other cause. Several plants (Juncus, some of the carnivorous plants,anything that likes boggy conditions) do enjoy having a little standing water in their roots, though most plants’ roots rot such situations. Other plants enjoy being extremely dry and pot bound, such as Orchids and Clivia. For most plants, however, the perfect is an evenly moist, but well-drained soil! Evenly moist generally means that you water when the top inch from the medium is dry to touch. If a plant likes to be dry between waterings, let almost the whole pot dry out before watering, if you should never let it go bone dry.
Good Air Circulation
Do not crowd your house plants close together, but leave just a little space between them. They need lots of gentle air circulation to lessen the risk of disease and to help them get lots of carbon dioxide, which they need for photosynthesis. Be sure the air movement is gentle; a chilly draft can stress your plants and cause them to lose leaves. Be careful of opening a window near your home plants in the cold of winter, and also of placing them within the direct line of air out of your air conditioner in summer. An air humidifier will also generate some air flow, while providing moisture that house plants need.
Humidity
Most plants like humidity between 30% to 50%. The watering system of pebbles inside a tray filled with water (see 2 above) helps provide good humidity. You may also have a humidifier in the room with your pot plants, and if you set your plants in a group (but not touching), this will also help to keep humidity up in their vicinity.
Plenty of Nutrients
The plant has no way of getting nutrients except in the growing medium in its pot, so you will have to feed your indoor plants with plant food. As long as the plant is blooming or perhaps in active growth, you can feed once a month with full-strength fertilizer (carefully stick to the label on whatever fertilizer you select). However, you will have more even results should you feed every two weeks having a 1/2 strength solution, or each week with a 1/4 strength solution. Most fertilizers have salts, and when you see a whitish buildup around the rim of the pot or on top of the potting mix, you should flush the soil by helping cover their water for at least half an hour, or better, yet, discard the soil in the pot and start over. Of course, you can avoid this concern by using a natural fertilizer like Algoflash for Houseplants, with a 100% natually occurring mineral base.
Good plant care starts with the selection of a place that can give you the ideal environment for its growth. Important too is to provide the right amount water and lightweight, and maintain the appropriate levels of humidity and temperature, in order to ensure the healthy development of plants.
Watering System
Bottom watering is usually best for pot plants, discouraging disease, and maintaining your potting mix evenly moist. A self-watering pot having a water reservoir in the bottom works well, and, indeed, is the best method to grow African Violets, which don’t like to be handled or splashed. A saucer beneath your pot also works well for bottom watering, for you personally simply pour water in to the saucer and let capillary action pull water up into the pot through drainage holes. You are able to optimize bottom watering by putting a wick of felt or water-conducting cord towards the bottom of your pot when planting, and letting the finish extend down into the saucer to assist move water up in to the potting mix. If you water from overhead, a watering pot having a long, small spout is good for controlling in which the water goes, and keeping it off the leaves of your plant.
Good Drainage
This is the other part of proper watering. Yes, a container might have too much water! There are probably more plants killed with more than watering than from any other cause. Several plants (Juncus, some of the carnivorous plants,anything that likes boggy conditions) do enjoy having a little standing water in their roots, though most plants’ roots rot such situations. Other plants enjoy being extremely dry and pot bound, such as Orchids and Clivia. For most plants, however, the perfect is an evenly moist, but well-drained soil! Evenly moist generally means that you water when the top inch from the medium is dry to touch. If a plant likes to be dry between waterings, let almost the whole pot dry out before watering, if you should never let it go bone dry.
Good Air Circulation
Do not crowd your house plants close together, but leave just a little space between them. They need lots of gentle air circulation to lessen the risk of disease and to help them get lots of carbon dioxide, which they need for photosynthesis. Be sure the air movement is gentle; a chilly draft can stress your plants and cause them to lose leaves. Be careful of opening a window near your home plants in the cold of winter, and also of placing them within the direct line of air out of your air conditioner in summer. An air humidifier will also generate some air flow, while providing moisture that house plants need.
Humidity
Most plants like humidity between 30% to 50%. The watering system of pebbles inside a tray filled with water (see 2 above) helps provide good humidity. You may also have a humidifier in the room with your pot plants, and if you set your plants in a group (but not touching), this will also help to keep humidity up in their vicinity.
Plenty of Nutrients
The plant has no way of getting nutrients except in the growing medium in its pot, so you will have to feed your indoor plants with plant food. As long as the plant is blooming or perhaps in active growth, you can feed once a month with full-strength fertilizer (carefully stick to the label on whatever fertilizer you select). However, you will have more even results should you feed every two weeks having a 1/2 strength solution, or each week with a 1/4 strength solution. Most fertilizers have salts, and when you see a whitish buildup around the rim of the pot or on top of the potting mix, you should flush the soil by helping cover their water for at least half an hour, or better, yet, discard the soil in the pot and start over. Of course, you can avoid this concern by using a natural fertilizer like Algoflash for Houseplants, with a 100% natually occurring mineral base.
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