How to transplant the flower room
Do It Yourself Educational Program / / December 19, 2019
When transplanted potted plants
This depends on the age and type of green pet. Young potted plants are usually transplanted each year. Adults who are more than four or five years - every two years or less, it depends on the rate of growth.
So you need to watch the plants. If the soil becomes caked and quickly began to dry up, and the roots take up almost the entire space, stick out of the drainage holes, and occasionally lift the flower above the ground, needs a transplant.
Repot houseplants can be at any time of year except winter. It is best to choose the spring when the flowers wake up and adapt more easily.
It is not necessary to disturb the pupils as they prepare to bloom or blossom, are weak due to illness and stress. After the purchase is better to wait at least a couple of weeks.
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What to choose: classic transplant or transhipment
Transplanting helps to upgrade the ground, because of its shake or completely removed from the roots. This is true when the old substrate is exhausted and the plants do not have enough nutrients. The reason may also be problems with the root system, which started to rot (e.g., due to overflow) pests in soil or incorrectly picked earth mixture.
Transshipment - a more gentle way to move the plant to another pot. To the old ground just added a new one, so the roots do not suffer. This method is good for the health of colors, as well as those that are hard to tolerate transplanting, the roots are fragile and are growing rapidly.
How to prepare for the transplant and handling
First pick up the pot, which is a centimeter and a half more than the first. In too zakisnet volumetric soil, and the plant will spend all their forces to build roots and did not bloom.
At the bottom of the pot must have drainage holes. At the top watering through them out excess water, so that the roots do not rot in the swamp. At the bottom, a perfect example for many bulbous plants, moisture is absorbed from the tray.
Use a soil mixture that is suitable for your pet. If you pick it up incorrectly, the flower will grow poorly or not at all will be lost. For example, the popular Phalaenopsis orchids can not survive in normal soil. They need a substrate based on bark.
At the bottom of the drainage layer in place of 1-2 centimeters or more. Use concrete block, broken red brick, medium-sized pottery shards or gravel.
Be sure to do everything in gloves. This will protect your hands from the ground. And if the transplant cactus, Take it using a rolled paper, foam or other devices.
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How to transplant flowers
Carefully remove the plant from the pot, along with a clod of earth. Shake off the roots and look carefully.
Remove all the land from the roots, only if it is moldy, just not suitable to the plant or it bred pests. When routine procedure primer may be partially left.
Do not wash the roots, if they as a whole looks fine, but the soil is not spoiled. Water Treatments - additional stress.
Rotten and dead portions cut a sharp knife or blade. Places slices sprinkle pounded charcoal.
In store bought flowers on the root system sometimes have a glass or mesh bag. Remove it.
After the plant is put into the pot. Hold the hand and gradually fall asleep the ground, lightly tamping.
Do not bury the flower too. Leave it at about the same level as in the same pot.
After the transplant, start watering the plant in two to three days. Drooping leaves just sprinkle, if the flower, such a procedure is not harmful.
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How to make a transshipment
For handling, remove from the pot flower room with a clod of earth. Gently shake off, but do not remove the soil from the roots.
Move into a new pot, the bottom of which expanded clay and a bit of land. Try to be centered to the gap between the walls remained about the same from all sides.
After gradually fill up the ground and slightly solidify it, that there was no voids.
When you fill the pot, water the plant. If needed, add a little more land.
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