How to care for Spathiphyllum at home
Do It Yourself Educational Program / / December 19, 2019
Where to put Spathiphyllum
Select to flower, "women's happiness" (the popular name of the plant) place with diffused light. For example, place it near a window. Spathiphyllum normally carries a penumbra, but in a far corner of the room with minimal lighting can not develop fully.
Do not leave the plant in the bright sun, especially in summer. A draft of the coast in all seasons.
Suitable temperature for the flower from spring to autumn is about + 23-25 ββΒ° C. In winter months, it should not be lower than +16 Β° C.
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How to water Spathiphyllum
Do not keep the plant in a continuous swamp. Let the ground dry out between waterings about a third of the pot. To check this, use a wooden stick with a blunt end.
Water the plant with water at room temperature or slightly warmer. From cold it could be in trouble with the root system.
Be especially careful during periods when the outside temperature is low. If waterlogged plant, which stands on a cold window sill, the roots begin to rot.
Regularly, for example once every 1-2 days, spray the Spathiphyllum.
Once a week, half-start a plant warm shower - water temperature should be slightly above room temperature. During the procedure, be sure to cover the pot package to excess moisture does not leak into the ground.
To increase the moisture use additional pallet with expanded clay soaked with water or sphagnum moss.
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How to transplant Spathiphyllum
If you bought in a store imported "women's happiness", not to delay his transfer. Make it after 2-3 weeks: the transport soil from the pot is not the best environment for good growth. As the roots can be enclosed in a mesh or glass, which would interfere with their normal development.
With the transfer of plants, which were grown in the ground and in local greenhousesWait until the appropriate season.
Planned change of the pot is held annually, the best - in the spring.
Some choose to pot Spathiphyllum
The best option - low and close enough pot, 1-1.5 cm more than the root system. Under such conditions, the plant will not be wasting time on filling the entire volume of roots.
What kind of land selected for Spathiphyllum
This flower suitable light, loose and permeable soils. For example, you can use special options for Araceae.
If there are none, do zemlesmes own. To do this, take a universal primer based on peat. Mix it with the middle-sized pieces of pine bark. Additionally add some disintegrants (perlite or vermiculite), and several pieces of charcoal.
How to conduct transplant
Remove the plant from the pot. Gently loosen the roots from the old soil. Rotten, cut with a sharp knife. cut site pounded treat with activated charcoal.
Do not tighten the landing. Once roots lead in order, put them in the pot, the bottom of which has a drainage layer (not less than 1-1.5 cm) and a little soil. Slowly fall asleep the rest of the earth, and fill her emptiness inside of the pot. Do not pack too much.
After transplant do not water, "a woman's happiness" for 3-4 days. If the leaves begin to wither, spray the plant every day for several times.
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How to fertilize Spathiphyllum
Begin to make fertilizer only in 1-1.5 months after the transplant. Previously, it is not necessary: ββthe new soil, and so just enough, and the plant during that time to cope with the stress on the conditions change.
Use of organic and mineral fertilizers in the proportions specified by the manufacturer. Bring it in from spring to autumn every 2-3 weeks. Winter feeding make a dosage of half that recommended.
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How to treat Spathiphyllum
Regularly inspect the plant. His appearance will tell you if any are admitted to care errors.
The leaves are limp and fell down
Cause: insufficient watering.
As soon as you notice a symptom, and water the plant liberally sprinkle it. Within hours, the leaves will return its former appearance.
If you do not do anything and leave Spathiphyllum without water for a long time, he dies.
Dry leaf tips
Cause: lack of humidity in the room.
Try using humidifier or put a flower with a tray on a tray or plate with a moistened sphagnum or expanded clay. Also, regularly spray the plant and bathe.
Spots on the leaves
Cause: too frequent or abundant watering.
So flower responds to the roots of the problem, suffering from violations of water flow regime. Try to water the plant as the top layer of soil drying and swamp land in the pot.
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How to properly care for Spathiphyllum
- Place the plant in the diffused light or partial shade.
- Protect from drafts and direct sunlight.
- Watering as the soil has dried.
- Regularly spray the flower and bathe in the shower.
- Repot every spring.
- Suitable for use flower light and loose soils.
- Fertilize a plant fertilizer.
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