By David Deardorff
Houseplants upload variety, fresh the air, and convey nature interior. yet they can be plagued with problems—aphids, mealybugs, mites, and thrips to call quite a few. What’s improper With My Houseplant? indicates you the way to maintain indoor crops fit through first educating you ways to spot the matter and resolve it with a secure, usual answer. This hardworking consultant contains plant profiles for 148 vegetation equipped via style with visual keys to the main of universal difficulties, and the comparable natural recommendations that might bring about a fit plant.
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HUMIDITY. Mist your banana plant daily with a spray bottle of water on a mist setting, or use a handheld mister. Put the pot in a saucer or tray of water, making sure the bottom of the pot never sits directly in the water by raising the pot up on pot feet or pebbles. POTTING MEDIUM. Use any good organic, well-drained, general-purpose potting medium that incorporates organic fertilizer, mycorrhizal fungi, and other beneficial microbes. FERTILIZER. Use any balanced organic fertilizer, in either a powder or liquid formulation.
The slender leaf-stalks arise from a fibrous, net-like, brown sheath that envelops the trunks. OPTIMUM HOUSEHOLD ENVIRONMENT Read the Introduction for the specifics of each recommendation. MEDIUM LIGHT. In spring and summer, while the plant is in active growth, it does best in filtered or dappled bright light as from a south, east, or west window. But it cannot tolerate full sun unless the light is filtered by Venetian blinds or gauzy curtains. In winter, when the plant is not growing as much, it gets along with low light.
Most of the time, when you acquire a parlor palm it is C. elegans, or a hybrid between C. elegans and C. seifrizii. Regardless of the label, the cultural requirements of any of these parlor palms are basically the same. The single biggest difference is that some are singletrunked and some are multi-trunked. OPTIMUM HOUSEHOLD ENVIRONMENT Read the Introduction for the specifics of each recommendation. MEDIUM LIGHT. Bright but indirect light such as from an east or west window with sheer curtains to filter and soften the light is perfect for parlor palms.