Hot bathhouse for the "green friend". Learning to make a hot shower for indoor plants

Indoor plants are filters to purify the air in our home. However, any filters tend to clog with dirt over time. What if the leaves of green friends are dull and covered with a layer of dust? Give them a hot shower!

What it is

The concept of "hot" is conditional. Because no plant can withstand the pressure of boiling water. And the temperature with which adults usually wash will be too high for them. The water should be pleasantly hot - just like for small children or pets. That is, no more than 30-40 degrees.

Many people give plants a cold shower or get by with a spray bottle. Any water treatment for plants is useful. Spraying is needed primarily to humidify the air.

A cold shower can wash away surface dust and give the flowers a lively look. A hot shower will wash all the folds on the leaves, get to all hard-to-reach places, and cleanse the pores of the plant.

What is useful

Compared to cold water treatments, a hot indoor plant shower is beneficial in that:

• effectively cleanses from dust;

• will open the pores of the plant, allowing better breathing;

• will destroy eggs and larvae of possible pests;

• will help the plant to wake up;

• will create the necessary humidity;

• will accelerate growth.

After it, the plants come to life and actively grow. This procedure is especially relevant at the end of winter - early spring, when green friends come out of hibernation. Hot water helps to awaken the buds, stimulate the growth of new shoots, destroy insects and their larvae wintering in flower pots: aphids, thrips, spider mites and others.

Sometimes this procedure is enough to literally resurrect a dying plant suffering from overdrying, pests, overfeeding with fertilizers, and diseases.

How to conduct

For a hot plant shower, make up pots with green friends in the tub. The procedure can be carried out in two ways: with and without soil spillage. The first method is appropriate if the soil in the pot is dry.

However, you should refrain from it if:

• bad water flows from the tap;

• soil in pots is wet;

• the plant has recently been fertilized.

In these cases, it is worth covering the ground in the pots with plastic wrap so that no water gets there. By the way, about fertilizers. If there is "overfeeding", then bathing the plant should be carried out with a spill. Hot water will wash away excess salts and minerals.

The plants placed in the bath are thoroughly washed from all sides with a stream of hot water directed under the pressure from the shower. The strength of the pressure depends on the fragility of the flower. After the procedure, you should leave the pots in the bathroom until the excess liquid drains. And on a hot sunny day - until it dries completely.

When to conduct

A hot shower for indoor plants should be done regularly from spring to autumn. In winter, the procedure is prohibited, since it activates growth when the time has not yet passed for this.

You can start arranging a bath day for indoor flowers from February-March, and in warm regions - from the end of January. Daylight hours arrive, and the plants are slowly coming out of hibernation.

At the beginning, one procedure per month is enough with a gradual increase. In the summer, it is useful to bathe your pets once a week. Reduce again in autumn, by November stopping bathing altogether.

The best time of day for a bathhouse is morning. Plants should not be washed in the middle of the day, thawed by the hot summer sun. If, nevertheless, the bathing took place in the very heat, then in no case should wet plants be put on the windowsills. The water droplets act like a magnifying glass, causing burns on the delicate leaves. It is worth drying the flowers in the bathroom or waiting for the sun to disappear.

What plants can and can not be bathed

Hot showers are not suitable for all plants. Beauties with smooth, leathery, hairless leaves: ficuses, bulbous plants, aroids, bromeliads, tradescantia and others accept the procedure with gratitude. When bathing bromeliads, it is important to ensure that the water does not linger in the middle of the outlet.

You cannot arrange a bath day for plants with pubescent leaves: violets, gloxinia, coleus, pubescent begonias. As for cacti and succulents, plant breeders differ here. Some are for, some are against.

On the one hand, these inhabitants of window sills do not tolerate excess moisture, on the other hand, they also need to be washed from accumulated dust and dirt, and this is not so easy to do because of the thorns. Therefore, the best options would be to bathe succulents once a month, covering the soil from water.

A hot shower for indoor flowers is a simple but very useful procedure. Carrying it out at home is as easy as shelling pears, and the effect is obvious. Plants after the bath not only grow better, bloom, but also look much better, decorating the space of the house and allowing green lungs to purify the air more effectively.