Planting of indoor plants
When is it necessary to transplant indoor plants? If the plant starts to grow, it's time to transplant, but if it blooms in the spring, you should wait for the flowering to end. If you do this before, a big risk is to damage young shoots.
Coniferous plants are best transplanted in early summer. Bulbous plants are transplanted when the rest period is over. Cacti are transplanted at the beginning of winter. Palms in tubs can be transplanted after 10 years, adult plants are transplanted every few years, young plants are transplanted every year.
Types of transplantation
There are several types of transplantation:
- complete transplantation, when the whole earth changes, the roots of the plant are cleared from the old land;
- incomplete, when on the roots of the plant remains some part of the old land;
- when the upper layer of the earth changes.
When the pot is small, the roots get out of the pot and cover with the whole earthen lump. Then the transplant is done at any time of the year.
Useful tips, choose a pot
In size, choose a pot that the new pot was in diameter 3-5 cm larger than the old one or that the old one would freely enter the new pot. There are 3 types of plants for planting plants: a container, pots and a pot. Please note that there are no drainage holes in the pots, and there are pots in the pot, so it is important not to mix them with the purchase. The pot must be inserted in the pot. As a rule, the container has a solid bottom. Several plants or several pots are placed in it. Containers for flowers are often made of plastic or clay. Both have their own shortcomings and dignities.
The virtues of clay pots
Clay pots are difficult to overturn, they are heavy. Of these, excess moisture evaporates better, since the clay has a porous structure.
Disadvantages of clay pots
When falling, clay pots are easily broken. The porous structure of the pot reduces the pot life, and if the pores are clogged with mineral salts, it is simply impossible to clean them. In this pot, the soil dries quickly, but if the pot is covered with glaze, this can be avoided.
Advantages of plastic pots
They are light and almost fall when they fall. Keep moisture, the plant in a plastic pot can be watered less often. Large selection of color, shape, easy to wash.
Disadvantages of plastic pots
If it is often watered, the roots rot and the soil will simply turn sour. In summer, the pot can quickly heat up. Sometimes plants are planted in boxes or wooden tubs. They do not get very hot in the sun, they cool down slowly at a sharp temperature drop, but the tree can darken or swell from water. If you properly take care of indoor flowers, they grow well in wooden, plastic, or clay containers.
Choice of land
For plants, you need to use ready-made mixtures that you can buy in stores. It will be easy to select a suitable mixture for your plant, the range of choice is large. To ensure that the soil in the pot does not condense, large sand, charcoal, sawdust and small pebbles are added to the prepared mixture.
When buying a ready-made mixture, pay attention to the plants for which it is intended, the expiration dates, acidity, composition and fertilizers added to it. Prior to the transplant, open the package, the nitrogen that accumulated during the storage of the mixture must evaporate, or the roots of the plant will suffer. For the transplantation and planting of indoor plants, you can not use ordinary garden land, it simply does not fit in its composition, it is also often infected with pathogens and pests, they multiply in the home and can damage the plant.
If you can not buy ready land, sterilize the garden substrate: moisten and steal the substrate in the oven for one hour at a temperature of about 80 or 100 C.
Pot Preparation
Wash, if previously used. Clay pot soak overnight in water to rid the pot of baked lime, it when combined with water forms harmful roots for the roots. At the bottom of the pot pour drainage: shards, pieces of brick or expanded clay. Drain with a small layer of earth. It is good to water the plant. After an hour, gently, with one hand holding the earthen, turn the pot. With the second hand, carefully remove the pot from the earthen coma.
To make it easier to separate them, knock the edge of the pot against some hard surface. When transplanting a large plant in a wooden pot, remove the hoops, and then remove the wooden parts. Try not to damage the roots of plants, sharpened wand or hands gently to clean the roots of the plant from the upper land. Rotted roots removed. Damaged root of the plant is sprinkled with crushed charcoal.
Seal the earth around the coma, gradually pour the ground so that its level reaches the base of the stem. Plant to water. Sometimes it is undesirable to transplant large plants, it is enough just to replace 5 cm of the upper layer of the earth with a fresh layer.
Now we know about the transplantation of indoor plants and useful advice on how to transplant home plants. We wish you good luck in caring for your green plants. Let them be healthy, strong, and their beauty is admired!