Area for Plants
Indoor plants are usually grown in greenhouses, where warm enough and wet. Outside the hothouse plants must endure harsher conditions, so buy plants in popular places where they were quenched. Then the plant will experience not so strong shock. |
Buy plants can be anytime, at any time of year, but more sensitive and delicate plants better get with the late spring to mid autumn. Plants that appear for sale in the winter, you need to choose carefully. Especially if they are sold at market stall or on the street. If these plants were not pre-hardened, they may have suffered from the cold. Also in the winter is not recommended to buy the sensitive and delicate plants, because for them the cold is very bad, and they just stand as a "sample".
Well, here you are prepared to buy. If you are going to buy the seeds of plants, if possible select hybrids F1 - first generation. When buying bulbs, take them and make sure they are solid, no rot, no damage or shoots. Buy your chosen houseplant, consider whether it is too big for the place in which you want to put it, and make sure that the plant healthy. If all goes well, we can safely buy!
Well, you bought the plant, and now you have to take him home. Before leaving the store, make sure that the purchased plant is well wrapped. Wrap it must be followed to avoid damaging the leaves and keep all the plants from drafts, and if the winter outside, then wrap the plant must be completely, that it had been closed at the top.
It is dangerous to move tender plants in winter in their hands. Not less dangerous to transport the plant in summer in the trunk of the car. The best option is to put the plant into some box and put on the seat. Not to damage the stems and leaves of the plant.
You own the plant must survive the so-called period of acclimatization. In the first few weeks take care of it from drafts and direct sunlight, keep it in a fairly warm place and too much not fill it with water. The most tender plants at this time may lose leaves, in any case do not run with him around the house to find the perfect place for him, just put it in a warm place where direct sunlight will not fall.
Manila winter flowering pot plants (cyclamen, azalea, chrysanthemum), demand has another appeal: choose to have a constant, as can be better lit place, and put them there.
Now your plant will live to please you with their health and beauty.