Protect your indoor plants in winter
How can I protect winter indoor plants from cold air ventilation of the room? Our plant there more problems in winter than in summer. At airing the room and picked up the pots on a cold window sill can harm them.
What should be done
All rooms crops that are grown in the home, as a rule, are thermophilic. By the onset of frost is necessary to prepare since autumn. First of all, repaired all the cracks in the frames. Rearrange the flowers from the window sill to the place where the vents will not be opened.
On the freezing of plants react tend to turn yellow, brown spots on leaves. They may like to appear and disappear. With a strong frost the leaves and stems are brown in appearance, as if glazed. Such plants are rapidly disappearing.
Winter under the pots enclose the base (suitable foam, wooden planks, old books, video tapes). If it's a strong cooling is better to remove the plant from the double-glazed windows to the edge of the windowsill.
The most susceptible to cold culture with fleshy leaves and smooth.
In addition, the winter is better not to buy new houseplants because they can not bear the cold street, until you deliver flowers home. If you do decide to buy your favorite plant in the store, then take a roll of paper or newspaper to wrap the flowers in several layers of material.
The plant, which is located on the windowsill blown, may lose leaves if often ventilate the room on cold days.
But the low temperature +16 - +18 degrees will not hurt plants, since many of them are in a period of rest. If the floral and ornamental crops you are standing on the floor in the winter, it is desirable to use the stand.
Watering and hydration
More often than not in the room when the air heating battery dry, and plants need moisture, they are sprayed and placed on pallets with wet expanded clay or vermiculite.
Reinforced watering houseplants in winter prohibited. Excessive hydration leads to the formation of mold and putrefaction. Water from the pallets need to be poured, as it quickly cools and the roots of this uncomfortable. Water the plant only when the drying of the topsoil.
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