Beginner flowers sometimes make, at first glance, minor errors that become fatal for room plant. It seems to be that - to transplant the flower from one pot to another. But incorrectly selected time, soil, illumination, surplus or, on the contrary, the lack of drainage, excess watering during transplant can be caused by the fact that the plant will die. How to avoid this and transplant home flowers in all rules?
Why transplant houseplants?
There may be several reasons for the transplant
- The first - after buying a new plant. Usually they are sold in temporary pots with a small amount of substrate. After the flower brought home, he needs to give some time to adapt, and transplant, choosing a new pot and appropriate soil.
- The second - the flower grew so much that the old pot is simply become small. How to determine? On the surface of the soil, the roots of the plant are visible - this means that they lack the place inside the tank. The plant ceased to be fed into growth, although before that grew quite intensively. And the flower can start reset leaves and buds, if it is closely.
- The third - if the flower began to wrap, drop the foliage, stopped blooming, shuddered without a visible reason - that is, it fell ill. And also if you accidentally overflow it.
It is important to remember that the flowers cannot be transplanted only because you wanted to tinker with plants. For transplanting needed a weighty reason, one of those indicated above. Either the transplant can be planned. How often to carry out a planned transplant of your flower, you can learn in the special literature.
Perfect Time for Color Transplant
Of course, if there are force majeure circumstances, the flower can be transplanted at any time of the year. In other cases, the transfer of indoor plants is carried out in the spring. Ideal time - the first decade of March - Flowers feel the beginning of spring and begin to actively be in growth. At this time, they quickly and without prejudice will come down in a new pot. But in general, all spring is quite suitable for transplantation - from the beginning of March to the end of May.
When the flowers categorically impose?
There are a number of reasons why you have to abandon transplant, even if a good time has come:
- You can not transplant the flower when it blooms. This is the time when the plant completely gives its strength to flowering and additional stress in the form of a transplant may simply destroy it. Take care and wait when the flowering period is over, then you can safely begin to resettle a flower in a new home.
- It is impossible to conduct manipulations by transplant if the flower is very sick or amazed by pests. First you need to conduct procedures for its treatment and resuscitation, wait until they face, the flower is a bit oily and then you can safely transplanses it. If you transplant the flower in the peak of the disease, you can finally lose it.
Naturally, it is not recommended to transplant the flowers in the autumn-winter period, if there is no extreme necessity.
Choosing a pot
Now on the market an incredible amount of a wide variety of pots, clay, ceramic, plastic, glass, made of orgifolds, monotonous and painted, transparent and matte, shiny and decorated with various rhinestones. Here the choice can only limit your fantasy and financial position.
How to choose a pot in size?
The size of the pot must be definitely more than the previous one, otherwise the transplant procedure itself will not make sense. But how exactly choose a pot size?
- The pot should not be too high. The excessive height provokes moisture stagnation, which leads, in turn, to reducing the roots of the plant.
- The pot must have an extension to the top - this is exclusively for the convenience of transplant, no effect on the plant has no effect. If for you fundamentally transplanting flowers in pots without expansion to the top - your business.
- It is possible to determine the optimal size of the new pot in an experienced way - put the old pot with a plant in another empty new one. If he enters without difficulty and free space remains a bit - this is the perfect option.
- But remember - for some plants, the form of a pot is fundamentally important. For example, all succulents love dry soil, so they need a low pot, the land in which will dry in a short time. If you transplant the drasens, they need a wide pot, in such tanks the plant feels great, and grow rapidly. And so with many colors to find out what exactly your flower is needed, you need to read special literature.
Attention! If you can, choose ceramic or clay pots for transplantation. They have the ability due to the porosity of the surface, strengthen the evaporation of moisture, which allows the roots forever remain intact rot.
Priming
Now the choice of soil is easy. Enough to come to the economic shop and choose the desired mixture. Usually they write on the packages, what kind of soil is and for which plants are intended. If you have found a special substrate specifically for your flower - it's great, you can consider you lucky. The soil is mixed here and is enriched in such a way that the flower gets the necessary substances from the soil. If you failed to find a special soil, then you can buy a universal floral.
Of course, you can interconnect the substrate yourself, but it basically makes a flowerfish with great experience that know exactly what exactly needs to be mixed, and what fertilizers to enrich the soil.
In any case, before using purchased or mixed alone, it needs to be cooled boiling water. This will save the substrate from pests and unnecessary disease plants.
Drainage
Naturally, before buying you need to check the pots for the presence of drain holes. They remove excess water when watering. Without them, it is simply impossible, the roots are sooner or late and the plant will die.
But, in addition to drainage holes, still use drainage. It makes it possible to quickly remove unnecessary water, as it does not allow drain holes to score with the soil, but also besides this, it delays the desired moisture residues so that they do not allow the plant to dispel.
As a drainage, you can not use everything that falls at hand. Such a drainage can score holes. Perfectly suitable clay. It is light, porous, and the desired size is usually sold in flower stores.
Plant Transplant Preparation
Before proceeding with a transplant, you need to prepare everything. Place all that you may need in the process:
- Plant in old pot.
- New pot.
- Substrate.
- Drainage.
- Scoop.
- Secatener, knife and scissors.
- Chinese wand for loosening and tillage.
- Water.
Stages of transplant
- The plant needs to be poured so that it can be easily removed from the old pot. After irrigation, you need to wait a few minutes so that the soil is completely appropriate with water.
- Maximen as possible to remove the plant from the old pot, shake the surplus of the old earth.
- Carefully inspect the roots, damaged, fallen, trim too long by the secateur.
- Remove the yellowed or unnecessary leaves with scissors or the same secateur.
- The new pot (previously used pot is better not to take, even if you were thoroughly washed it, it can carry diseases or pests) rinse boiling water.
- At the bottom of the new pot lay drainage.
- Then pour the soil on a third of the height.
- Place the plant into the center. Stick with one hand, the second with the help of a scoop, fall asleep ground.
- The root of the flower must be in the edge of the pot.
- The soil should be tamped so that the pot to the edge was about 1.5-2 cm. It will facilitate watering.
- Little flower, and put place in the usual place.
For several days, the plant does not need to be touched, he needs time to adapt and addiction.
Important! Frequent, but insignificant irrigation watering allows the flower faster and better fit in a new place. But do not overflow the plant, otherwise it may die! In all, you need moderation.
That's all. The flower settled in a new house, now it remains only to wait when it takes. Remember a number of moments: Do not dilute with watering, do not set some time for direct sunlight, and choose a transplanting pot with the mind. If you do everything right, then soon the flower will begin to please you with rapid growth or abundant blossom.
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