House plants please us, but do not always rejoice themselves. They are satisfied with the small space of the pot and the light that passes through the window. All anything, but house colors, unlike street, do not get any nutrients from the "big" earth, nor natural fertilizers, nor rain water. Therefore, for health, active growth and flowering, they need top dressing. Moreover, it is the one that suits this type of plant. Glad your flowers with the "right" top dressing - and they will answer you with their fragrance and healthy, blooming in all senses.
Support plants from your home oasis with mineral fertilizers. As a rule, they are all complicated. Packages usually indicate three figures - for example, 6: 10: 6, indicating the proportion of the main minerals: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. A large amount of phosphorus ensures the growth of plants and lush flowering; an increased content of potassium is needed to tie flowers and fruits. Nitrogen is indispensable for the development of all plants, especially decorative and deciduous. In the same place on the package carefully read the information on the method and frequency of fertilizing: incorrectly using it, you can damage the plant.
LET'S POCHIMICHIM.
Mineral fertilizer is a complex of nutrients necessary for plant life. Flowers absorb them through the root system or through the leaves. What are these minerals?
Nitrogen is part of the protein, the basis of living matter. With its lack, leaves pale, their growth stops. With excess - become dark green, the plant does not blossom.
PHOSPHOR is responsible for the energy processes that constantly occur in cells. If the mineral is not enough, the leaves become brown, become stained, and the growth of shoots slows down. Excess phosphorus is a very rare phenomenon.
POTASSIUM helps to assimilate nitrogen from the air. With its lack of flowers either fade or do not tie at all. The leaves turn yellow and fall off, the plant becomes defenseless before the diseases. From the excess of potassium, the leaves become darker and shallower.
MAGNESIUM is one of the elements of chlorophyll, participates in photosynthesis. If the plant grows slowly, the leaves turn white on the tips and between the veins, these are signs of a lack of magnesium.
THE FORM IS RIGHT.
Before you apply fertilizer, find out what exactly does not like the plant? Perhaps you filled it? Or is the pot too small? Not enough light? Did central heating hurt or draft? If there are no such problems, but the flower still withers, it is necessary to fertilize.
1. Never prepare solutions for top-dressing for future use: make the necessary amount and use all at once
2. It is not necessary to feed recently bought or transplanted into a new capacity plant. Wait for about a month until the flower takes root and begins to grow, otherwise you will burn the roots.
3. Make sure that the rooting drug does not reach the leaves, stem and other parts of the plant. If this still happens, spray it from the spray with clean water.
4. Flowers that are ill, you must first cure and only then intensively fertilize.
5. If the plant has enough strength to blossom, then it is quite healthy and no additional fertilizer is needed. He will need strength after flowering.
6. Before applying fertilizers for two hours, pour a flower abundantly so that the earth becomes wet and the feeding spreads evenly.
PURE BIOLOGY.
In addition to special fertilizing, use also improvised means - in the kitchen there is a lot of unnecessary to you, but useful to plants.
- After washing the meat, water with the remains of blood pour into the flowers: from such watering, even the weaker plants will come to life.
- A good feeding is water in which the potatoes are cooked in the peel.
- In plants, "pour" and kefir, as well as other sour-milk products.
- Pour into the flowers the remains of tea, thick with coffee: they make the soil more loose and substantially enrich it. Plant waste retains moisture in the soil. When transplanting, add them by pouring the layer onto the drain before laying the ground.
- The egg shell is calcium in its pure form. Grind it better in a coffee grinder, add together with mineral fertilizers, which increase the acidity of the soil. The egg shell neutralizes it. But remember: this fertilizer is good for already adult plants.