Your home needs some house plants.
Provide the environment with some natural
greenery. Beautify homes and apartments
by decorating with succulents, cacti, ferns, lilies, runners, ficuses,
etc.
Healthy plants are extraordinary additions to your
style. Old plants, though, send a
negative message. Are your plants
displaying yellowed leaves, dropped leaves or bears no new growth? The plant is not receiving proper care.
“All
house plants have different watering, fertilizer and light needs, and
understanding the needs of each plant is the key to house plant growth (http://www2.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/BioBookPLANTHORM.html)”
First of all, locate sufficient light. If your house plant is failing to thrive, it may not be receiving adequate light to stimulate new growth. Add extra light with an incandescent or fluorescent plant light if you don't have enough natural light.
First of all, locate sufficient light. If your house plant is failing to thrive, it may not be receiving adequate light to stimulate new growth. Add extra light with an incandescent or fluorescent plant light if you don't have enough natural light.
Make sure the environment is
temperature efficient, from 58° to 86° F, because too high or too low can cause
stunted plant growth.
Keep the plant watered
regularly. Cactus and succulents
obviously don’t need much water. Upon the touch, the soil should feel cold,
moist or wet. Soil particles should stick
to your finger. The soil will be crumbly
and dusty when it is time to water it. A
rule of thumb is to add water until liquid flows out of the drainage holes in
the bottom of the plant container.
Miracle gro will provide minor
miracles to your plants when utilized correctly. You should fertilize house plants during
their growing season using 20-20-20 fertilizer. Do not fertilize them during
the winter since this is their dormant season. Apply the fertilizer following
the manufacturer's recommendations based upon the size and type of plant. Plant fertilizers include hormone. Plants
have five classes of hormones, auxins, bibberellins, cytokinins, abscisic acid,
and ethylene. Auxins promote stem
elongation, inhibit growth of lateral buds, and promote cell elongation.
Auxins are produced after plant
nutrition. Auxin increases the activity
of proton pumps. The cell wall becomes
more acidic. Wedge-shaped expansins,
activated by low pH, separate cellulose micorofibrils from cross-linking
polysaccharides. The exposed
cross-linking polysaccharides are now more accessible to cell wall
enzymes. The enzymatic cleaving of the cross-linking
polysaccharides allows the microfibrils to slide. The extensibility of the cell wall is
increased. Turgor causes the cell to
expand. With the cellulose loosened, the
cell can elongate.
When the summer months
approach, move plants outside during the summer in order to expose them to natural
sunlight and air.
Do not keep plants outside
if temperatures fall below 40 F.
“How pure is the air you breathe? Plants are the lungs of the earth: they produce the oxygen that makes life possible, add precious moisture, and filter toxins. Houseplants can perform these essential functions in your home or office with the same efficiency as a rainforest in our biosphere (http://www.amazon.com/How-Grow-Fresh-Air-Plants/dp/0140262431).”
